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Old 25th Jul 2009, 08:31
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LeandroSecundo - I have never used a side-stick flight control but have used several 'side-stick system controls' in various fighting machines. Turbulence is your biggest problem and the decider is how 'sensitive' a particular control is to a random input. The 'control column' (yoke) is a very coarse control and turbulence does not create too much of a problem. If the AB side-stick is highly geared and hand support is not adequate you may have problems. Control stick damping is another design consideration. A little flying in a British 'Whirlwind' helicopter showed me that the 'stick' was not 'mass balanced' and if it fell over to one side when you let go the heli followed it

Moving a 'joystick' at 7g+ smoothly takes a lot of effort. However the 'g' we are looking at in this case are few.
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