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Old 4th Nov 2011, 17:47
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John Farley

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To replicate the V squared control forces af a specific type from your starting point (very dubious aero package and probably no real aircraft data) is simply going to be impossible so I would suggest it would be very much more useful (for you and your colleagues) to mod the sim so that you can use it to teach yourselves about and experience some of the important aspects of all aircraft manual control systems.

To do this you would want as a starting point any benign simulation that is easy to fly (there are plenty of those on MSFS). Then you provide the ability to select/superimpose a range of the control system problems that plague real aircraft.


In no particular order:
• Breakout forces
• Friction in the linkage
• Sticktion in the linkage (a very different animal)
• Mechanical backlash between you and the control surface movement
• Control sensitivity that is too high
• Control sensitivity that is too low
• Cable stretch (in real life the same effect can be caused by the flexing of pulley mounting brackets)
• Different types of control force feedback (spring centring and V squared related)

See what your Prof thinks.
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