Thanks, that is the reason for the quck connect of the control stick, and using actulators in combonation with manual control so one can switch easy enough and the use of the special actulators that won't lock in the controls on power failure.
This solves two problem as it's not 100% dependant on the FBW and can be over ridden, the airbus system was only designed to do FBW 100% and hence some of it's issues. I'm a technology guy, I build and work on large enterprise systems and work for a fortune 100 company, so it apeals to my sense of adventure to want to see how I can control the plane. It's small and very controlable I think the KR2 would be a great example. I've even thought how cool it would be to make it fly remotely using the same system (of course over a non-populated area) with a camrea. Though I'm not crazy hence not a replacement of the controls for FBW but an augmentation of the controls by FBW with the manual controls still there. I would also be able to link it and program a custom auto pilot for alot cheaper then what they sell for. I plan to use PC Avonics in both planes, so I can hook everthing up to the onboard computer and it can control the plane via it's own Auto pilot routines the designer already has in place, I talk with TOD the main designer of the software from time to time. Joe On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:27 AM, David Goodman < dgood...@verticalavionics.com> wrote: > Jose wrote: > > I had been thinking about a fly by wire design, I had posted this on my > other forum I'm a member of, but too many of them are "BUILD IT to PLANS!!" > type, I like to change things for the better. > > Jose, > > I applaud your motivation and enthusiasm! This sounds like a tremendous > amount of work for little return, but if you are charged up about it, go > forth and slay dragons. The Wright Brothers did and look what happen with > their ideas. > > Two words of caution. First, have a back-up that is instantaneous and > failsafe. Second, your FBW is guaranteed to fail at the worst possible > times; if you plan for it and expect it you may be able to eliminate the > risk involved. > > Airbus still had not perfected their FBW in the 319/320 and 330/340 series > aircraft even after ten years of the planes flying passengers! One of the > unfortunate realities of being trained as an aviation mishap investigator > is > learning a lot of behind the scenes info that the public is not allowed to > know. My family never flies in these aircraft, ever. I hope you efforts > are worthwhile and work! Good luck to you! > > IHS, > > David "Zipper" Goodman > Vertical Avionics, Inc. > www.verticalavionics.com > > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > -- Jose Fuentes Founding Father (one of and former Vice Prez) of Capital City.NET User's Group Former Microsoft MVP http://blogs.aspadvice.com/jfuentes
