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Old 5th December 2011 | 12:23
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Microburst2002
 
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great!

I'm reading it, but I got surprised by this:

It is fairly well known that at low airspeeds, pilots expect movement of the control column to produce a change in pitch rate. At high airspeeds, pilots expect movement of the control column to produce a change in normal acceleration.
I had no idea, and I don't quite understand that yet. I am also surprised by the little if any mention to stick forces in these texts. I always thought that I flew the airplane by means of forces or pressures on the columnm rather than moving it. At high speed, the same force moved less the column, but had a similar effect in g force. I have always looked at conventional pitch control as one in which the pilot input is a force, rather than an elevator deflection, so that similar forces gave similar load factors, irrespective of speed.

But I'm being impatient, I'll keep reading...
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