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Old 1st September 2011 | 21:41
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DozyWannabe
 
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@Svarin:

Question - if there is no feedback through the rudder pedals of an A330, how come pilots reported a significant difference in feel between the earlier A330/340 (200-300) models and the later A340 models (500-600)?

And by "barely came into it", I mean that it came into it after control was lost, and was very much secondary to the pitch and roll inputs that went through the sidesticks.

One thing that I find interesting in the traces is that the sidestick traces are based on a graph where left stick input relates to values > 0, whereas roll traces say that values > 0 relate to right wing down. If this is that case then PIO/APC needs to be looked into, as the traces of roll vs. sidestick show the precise opposite.

PS. I like the term "dared" - it makes me sound like a far more "caution-to-the-wind" guy than I actually am.
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