Originally posted by HN39
No way? While I agree that the phugoid damping would not be sufficient to explain the apparently 'attenuated' response to the sidestick command, I'm not convinced that it could not have contributed to it.
I'm not saying that phugoid damping won't affect long term response when under alpha-prot, only that in the first 4 or 5 seconds of a 27 sec period motion the effect will be very small and that the motion will be dominated by the short period mode.