That controls the control surfaces, but the larger the plane the slower it will respond to changes to the control surfaces (generally anyway). Small inputs in response to small changes in the air.
Kind of like when you are driving and while it looks like your car is going straight you're constantly making tiny adjustments, or when a crosswind picks up and you steer but the car keeps going straight, etc.
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How come when the pilot has his hand on the "joystick" or whatever you would call it, he is moving it around quite a bit but it doesn't really look like the plane responds to what he is doing?
It is more to do with the design of the aircraft. I have never flown an A320, so I can't really comment on it specifically.
But generally speaking the slower the aircraft is flying the more control deflection required to achieve the desired result. In that video, most of the shots are of when the aircraft is flying at slower airspeeds, hence the seemingly exaggerated control inputs (See video comment section for entertaining debate on that related to Fly By Wire controls)
There is less airflow over the wings, so you need to deflect the control surfaces much more to make a roll correction than you would at higher air speeds.
What I mean by "design of the aircraft" is that some airplanes just don't like to fly very slow. And others have design characteristics that make the handling much smoother at lower airspeeds.
For a basic example of design characteristics. I used to fly the Metro2 and Metro3 (Metro3 is newer model) The basic differences between the Metro 2 and 3 are about 3500lb higher takeoff weight, more powerful engines and about 8 feet more wing. But the ailerons stayed exactly the same size. So the roll inputs were much less effective on the Metro3 than they were on the Metro2.
Anyone know anything about the Airbus 390? it looks fake
It seems like an OK fake, but the second shot front is from a Beluga aircraft which the do produce and use to ferry parts between Italy, France, and Germany.
The world is moving to less engines not more. The only reason for 4 engine planes is ETOPS requirements which now 2 engine planes can complete.
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It seems like an OK fake, but the second shot front is from a Beluga aircraft which the do produce and use to ferry parts between Italy, France, and Germany.
The world is moving to less engines not more. The only reason for 4 engine planes is ETOPS requirements which now 2 engine planes can complete.
Both photos are definitely fake, you can see where things have been stretched on both pictures. The second picture isn't of the beluga, it's just stretched upward from a A380. it looks like.
I'm just curious why we feel the need to definitively prove the A390 pictures above are fake?
Don't you think we would have heard any development of the plane by now?
Don't you think there'd be orders for it if it were prototyped to completion such as above?
Wouldn't there be discussion about airport capacity like there was for the A380?
Is there a need for a plane that could fly 1200 passengers or so?
Yes, it's photoshoped, even without going through the technical deficiencies of picture, we knew it would be.
You know what else isn't actually an aircraft in development?
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You know, after seeing an A380 next to a 747-400 over in Asia, from all sides, the A380 just looks a bit bloated.
I guess the best description I've heard is the A380 is one of those Mega cruise ships - impressive in its own right, while the 747 is like the QE2 - classically large
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Today was the last day of Lufthansa's service to YYC, I was the for there departure. The flight crew gave us a real treat and came back around for a low pass on runway 34 in clean configuration. We also had a rare visitor as an Air China A330-200 diverted here due to weather in Vancouver. A few pics:
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