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Old 17th Nov 2011, 13:42
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Originally Posted by HN39
Probably turbulence: Transition from updraft to downdraft could very well create sufficient reduction of "gee" to satisfy the "gee" demanded by a moderate nose-down SS input, without immediately dropping the nose.
- the more we think we discover the worse it gets!

Pilot: I want the nose to go down

***: No! (Dave) I can achieve your demand for a change in vertical acceleration in another, far more clever way ( could even be nose up?)

Pilot: But I only wanted the nose to go down.

For heaven's sake - are you serious? Where have we gone wrong? (Answers on a postcard, please). When I move a control I expect a proportionate response in the desired direction.
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