Hyperveloce, 105
Hi there, Just wondering about the opportunity to provide to the pilots
additional flight parameters such as the AoA and beyond: wouldn't it be
possible to measure the efforts generated by all the control surface
actuators (in response to the flight control loop orders), to estimate
directly/specifically their aerodynamic authorities and display them ?
(roughtly, the harder to actuate the control surface, the more
aerodynamic authority it has ? or an estimation performed through more
sophisticated aerodynamical models for each control surface and the
airframe ?).
Have been thinking about something similar, but in relation to wing loading
as an extra parameter input for the calculation of lift. For the control
surface case, this could be instrumented via strain gauge type transducers,
one would think, near the control surface root.
In the wing loading case, deriving lift force is complicated by acceleration
forces, but since other areas of the system (adirs) already measure this, the
acceleration could be subtracted out to derive actual lift on the wing. How
usefull any of this might be, I don't know, but there are times when the more
cross check type data that there is available, makes it easier for dumb logic
to determine what is really happening....