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Old 27th Apr 2011, 05:47
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leviterande - it says R44 helicopter simulator at the top

Don't confuse rotor/fuselage response times with the time taken to overcome the inertia of the helicopter and accelerate it. The graph doesn't show fuselage attitude, only cyclic input.

The simulation also doesn't show inflow roll (or transverse flow for US trained pilots) so don't put too much faith in it.

If rotor/fuselage response times were in the order of 2 seconds, no-one would need ASE/SAS/AFCS to reduce pilot workload since they tend to provide rate damping to slow down the rotor response to cyclic inputs
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