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Old 11th Aug 2011, 18:57
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Owain Glyndwr
 
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Bear, Lyman,RWA or whoever.

We know you have difficulty with simple concepts, and I am probably wasting my time, but one more try.

With a FBW airplane operating under C* laws there is no simple relationship between sidestick movement and elevator deflection. The sidestick movement is a delta 'g' command and the FCS adjusts the elevator movement to suit the actual flight conditions. Moreover, the FCS has a pitch damper function, so the elevator movement is further modified by a term that depends on pitch rate. You simply cannot make the sort of comparison you are attempting - it is futile.

Secondly, as has already been stated many times, the THS movement is not linked directly to elevator movement either. The THS is moved in response to the SUMMATED stick demands over a period of some seconds. This quantity varies much more slowly than the actual elevator deflections, so the THS movement is correspondingly sluggish.

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