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Old September 20th 03, 03:46 PM
Christopher
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Default The F-16 control stick?

Does it move when say when the pilot wants to climb, or does it have
pressure sensors on a rigid stick so the stick can inform the
computers the pilots hand is pressing on the front of the stick and he
wants the F-16 to climb?


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Old September 20th 03, 04:53 PM
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Does it move when say when the pilot wants to climb, or does it have
pressure sensors on a rigid stick so the stick can inform the
computers the pilots hand is pressing on the front of the stick and he
wants the F-16 to climb?


Initially it was a force-sensing stick, but later they added some "play" to
it.

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Old September 20th 03, 05:49 PM
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On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:53:37 GMT, "Bill Silvey"
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"Christopher" wrote in message

Does it move when say when the pilot wants to climb, or does it have
pressure sensors on a rigid stick so the stick can inform the
computers the pilots hand is pressing on the front of the stick and he
wants the F-16 to climb?


Initially it was a force-sensing stick, but later they added some "play" to
it.


By *play* how many degrees can the pilot now move it?



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Old September 20th 03, 07:54 PM
Kurt R. Todoroff
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Does it move when say when the pilot wants to climb, or does it have
pressure sensors on a rigid stick so the stick can inform the
computers the pilots hand is pressing on the front of the stick and he
wants the F-16 to climb?



Both. However, the purpose of the movement is only to provide artificial feel
or feedback to the pilot. I read in the flight manual (a while back) that the
stick moves either 1/4 inch or 1/8 inch longitudinally and laterally. I don't
know how many degrees of pitch and roll movement about the translation point
this equates to. For all intents and purposes, the stick is rigid. I think
that General Dynamics incorporated this feature into the second block of
F-16A/B aircraft.





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Old September 21st 03, 01:06 PM
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"Christopher" wrote in message
...
Initially it was a force-sensing stick, but later they added some "play"

to
it.


By *play* how many degrees can the pilot now move it?



Check out http://www.ultra-msi.com/mini.html, a supplier to the aerospace
industry of force-joyticks.

Si


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Old September 21st 03, 04:24 PM
Christopher
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On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:06:29 +0100, "Simon Robbins"
wrote:

"Christopher" wrote in message
...
Initially it was a force-sensing stick, but later they added some "play"

to
it.


By *play* how many degrees can the pilot now move it?



Check out http://www.ultra-msi.com/mini.html, a supplier to the aerospace
industry of force-joyticks.


Just did and got this:

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Old September 21st 03, 04:31 PM
Tex Houston
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"Christopher" wrote in message
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On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:06:29 +0100, "Simon Robbins"
wrote:

"Christopher" wrote in message
...
Initially it was a force-sensing stick, but later they added some

"play"
to
it.


By *play* how many degrees can the pilot now move it?



Check out http://www.ultra-msi.com/mini.html, a supplier to the aerospace
industry of force-joyticks.


Just did and got this:

The page cannot be found
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name
changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

I tried and got the correct page.

Tex


 




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