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Originally Posted by nightstalker
fly by wire
that the removal of being able to feel how an aircraft is flying by the touch of a hand isn't a good thing.?
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Holy smoly!!!
Nightstalker, you just hit me with a sledgehammer. You're absolutely right. In the old style, we use 'force gradients' to simulate increasing feedback as the range from centre increases. This was because the hydraulic system was so sensitive. But a strong enough force on flight controls can still give true feedback. So that was fine and gave nice feedback while still having full hydraulic assistance. However, fly-by-wire used simulated feedback, similar to a game controller on a Sony Playstation. Even a stall-shake is simulated. The feedback is derived from the flight computer information. If the flight computer has corrupted information (as with AF447), the feedback may well be out of proportion, or worse yet, opposite. The enunciated alerts are also derived from the same system. Flying VFR, aircrew would be prone to vertigo and misinformation, if not impossible.
At a critical time a pilot needs all the physical feedback he can get, not corrupted and negative feedback.
Airbus would already know this, but damn Nightstalker, you're a genius!
Do you guys see how serious this issue would be?
