Not to worry, you don't need to know all the equations behind the technology - whether that be cables and counterweights, advanced FBW or anything inbetween - to fly the aircraft well.
I agree. That's a wonderful trait of human mind - it can successfully cope with whatever control arrangement it has, without even noticing the difference...
However, considering myself a bit of a techie type (un-justifiably, it seems
), I'd really like to now how it all works...
What can I add to C* = n + A*q ? It represents a 'blend' of G-load and pitch rate that is fed into the control loop to command the position of the elevator.
I kind of understand this represents the blend of pitch rate and load factor (even found out in another paper that "A" is actually Vcrossover/g - that's where the airspeed comes in, even if not directly fed into the computer). However...
I have always thought that a "control law" would be represented as:
output = function of (input, other variables),
How does the C* term (which represents the nature of the control law) translate into the above?