For you Aviation buffs

[Voodoochild]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYDba...e_gdata_player

Airbus A-319/320/321

[Hmac]

Cool video. Ya sure gotta wiggle the sticks a lot...

[Suwannee Tim]

Cool video. Ya sure gotta wiggle the sticks a lot...

Me too. I noticed that stick action too. I've can't recall seeing that much stick movement. I wonder if this thing is fly by wire?

[An Undocumented Worker]

Me too. I noticed that stick action too. I've can't recall seeing that much stick movement. I wonder if this thing is fly by wire?

Yeah they are fly by wire.

[rjacobs]

If you roll the 'bus into a turn or pitch into a climb or descent and release the stick, it holds the attitude that you put it at. Thats why you see all the stick movement. Theres also not really any feedback from the stick in what kind of loading the control surfaces have on them so its easy to put to much into it and have to correct back a little bit which means a big movement back the other way, not just relaxing pressure a little like in a normal aircraft.

Cool video though. I need to put together something from all the video I have from flying.

[An Undocumented Worker]

If you roll the 'bus into a turn or pitch into a climb or descent and release the stick, it holds the attitude that you put it at. Thats why you see all the stick movement. Theres also not really any feedback from the stick in what kind of loading the control surfaces have on them so its easy to put to much into it and have to correct back a little bit which means a big movement back the other way, not just relaxing pressure a little like in a normal aircraft.

Cool video though. I need to put together something from all the video I have from flying.

I'm not a pilot, but just imagine a car with steering like that. Do not want.
Stuff like that seriously makes me wonder if the engineering team that designed the contol system had any experience what so ever flying/driving a vehicle. Or if they even solicited input from experienced individuals.

[Suwannee Tim]

Come to think of it I have seen video of an aircraft flying off the deck of a carrier and landing and the pilot was doing the same rapid motion of the stick. It was an FA 18 iirc. The pilot, an acquaintance, lost an engine on takeoff on the same cruise. The aircraft carrier has video cameras watching the flight deck from many angles and Cdr. Leinhouts (sic?) made a video of the mishap. The aircraft rapidly rolled, lost altitude then hit the water. Leinhouts jumped out about 1/64 of a second before too late. He got doctored, got drunk, got sober then got back in. Amazing. His BIL was training a newbie who for unexplained reasons decided to activate the ejection system. He was flying along and BOOM!, BOOM! hanging from a parachute. He lost his nerve and never flew again.

[Hmac]

I'm not a pilot, but just imagine a car with steering like that. Do not want.
Stuff like that seriously makes me wonder if the engineering team that designed the contol system had any experience what so ever flying/driving a vehicle. Or if they even solicited input from experienced individuals.

You have to be kidding....

[An Undocumented Worker]

You have to be kidding....

Kidding about what?

Lack of tactile feedback on control inputs is not something I'm a fan of.

[RogerinTPA]

Cool video. Looks like the pilot was over controlling or had an involuntary reflex to over control. You don't need to move it all that much. When I flew Helos in the Army, some guys would constantly move the cyclic, in an almost rhythmic pulse, and didn't notice until I or some else, pointed it out.