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I was going to say the same thing kwantam did about piloting: airplanes generally fly themselves. In the vast majority of situations, all the pilot (ideally) do
by lutorm 15y ago
I was going to say the same thing kwantam did about piloting: airplanes generally fly themselves. In the vast majority of situations, all the pilot (ideally) does is add slow and small perturbations. Airplanes without inherent stability, like some fighter jets, are without exception flown by computers, with the pilot providing control inputs to the loop.
- Natsu 15y agoI had a professor who was a control systems engineer. They had a helicopter simulation hooked up where you could attempt to fly it both with and without the control system. I don't think I was able to move it more than a few feet without having it flip over when I wasn't using the control system. And if you want to bring math into it, he was also damn good at solving the matrices filled with hairy PDEs that described the whole system.