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Old 12th Aug 2011, 10:59
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syseng68k
 
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takata, #1826

This is what the transducers are supposed to do. Feedback from every
control surface is recorded, digitalized and corresponding pressure is
applied back to each sidesticks axis.
I don't know where this myth came from, but if you look at the side
stick drawing, you can see that the only feedback is from self centering
springs. There is no force feedback from the control surfaces as there
are no motors etc in the side stick to provide this. Genuine "artificial
feel" provides stick feedback from control surface load, whereas the ab
stick is more akin to a video game controller, though I understand that
even some of these have real force feedback now.

A serous dropoff imho and may be compared to the difference between a
good sports car, where you can feel the road through the steering and
something like the old Jags, where over servoed power steering removed
all sense of tyre and chassis loading.

The sidestick transducers are there to sense position, they are not motors...
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