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Julie wrote:
Rich Grise wrote: "Dan Luke" wrote in message ... "Joerg" wrote: Wouldn't the pilot feel if the auto pilot issued lots of servo repositionings? I am not a pilot but I could imagine that would make for a pretty uncomfortable flight. At least for the passengers. Hmm, good question. Still, it might be possible that rapid, very small repositions could be imperceptible. I was just taking a wild shot at this one. -- I read somewhere that the F-16 is so unstable that a human can't fly it without the computer control. I'd think that means it makes corrections faster than a human can, but it's making corrections to a known airframe, I guess. I'd think they'd want the response time of an autopilot to be fairly slow so it doesn't do abrupt stuff - but then it really wouldn't be able to handle weather. Cheers! Rich Yes, this is true of all modern fighters. If you watch movies of a takeoff or landing, you will notice the ailerons and horizontal stabilizers fluttering all over the place in what is pretty much straight flight. But it is only straight and level flight because of all of the control surface "fluttering!" Matt |
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