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Old 4th Nov 2009, 22:12
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Milt
 
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The "FEEL" of the flight controls/manoeuvre are very important. Stick force per g is vital and test pilots are intent on achieving control harmony. In my day in the mid 1900s a fighter's desireable SF/g was around 5 pnds and for a heavy around 11 pnds per g if I remember rightly. John Farley?

With the advent of fly by wire and side sticks all of the feel forces changed with stick force per g settling out at about 3 pnds for a fighter. But we humans have differing directional strengths in the wrists so these are allowed for in the software controlling the pilot's inputs. This results in there being totally different forces per resultant manoeuvre between left and right side sticks. The intent is to produce control harmony with either stick by accounting for the differing force feel of our left and right wrist movements.

Any pilot would be hard pressed to fly accurately if he was able to use the wrong hand on a side stick.
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