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Artificial Feel Aircraft

Artificial feel systems in aircraft provide pilots with feedback about control surface movements and aerodynamic loads through an opposing force on the controls proportional to those loads. Modern aircraft use either spring feel systems where resistance increases with input, or Q feel systems where dynamic pressure differentials create resistance, with basic Q feel using a piston and hydraulic Q feel using a hydraulic actuator and servo valve biased by dynamic pressure.

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Artificial Feel Aircraft

Artificial feel systems in aircraft provide pilots with feedback about control surface movements and aerodynamic loads through an opposing force on the controls proportional to those loads. Modern aircraft use either spring feel systems where resistance increases with input, or Q feel systems where dynamic pressure differentials create resistance, with basic Q feel using a piston and hydraulic Q feel using a hydraulic actuator and servo valve biased by dynamic pressure.

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• A type of force feedback used in the automatic flight control

systems of some aircraft. Artificial feel produces an opposition


to the pilot's movement of the controls that is proportional to
the aerodynamic loads acting on the control surfaces

• For larger aircrafts where PCUs (Power Control Units) are used,
the pilot has no direct feedback ‘feel’. Therefore, the designer
has to use artificial feel to ensure that the pilot senses the
magnitude of the effect that the control movements have
• In modern aircrafts there are two types of artificial
feel system

o Spring Feel System


o Q Feel System
 Basic Q Feel System
 Hydraulic Q Feel System
Spring Feel System
 As pilot inputs a signal to deflect control surface,
the resistance of the spring is felt

 Greater the input greater the resistance

 Effective at lower speeds where greater deflections


are required
Basic Q Feel System
 Q is referred to as dynamic pressure found by
subtracting static pressure from pitot pressure

 Pitot pressure directed at one inlet and static pressure in


other resulting in differential dynamic pressure, which
acts to bias the system

 Linear movement of piston leads to feel resistance to


pilot i.e. greater the movement greater the feel

 Increase in speed increases the value of Q which acts


against the pilot although requiring only small
deflections
Hydraulic Q Feel System
 Q feel pot is replaced by small hydraulic actuator
and a servo valve operated by dynamic pressure

 Diaphragm separates pitot and static pressure with


their differential dynamic pressure biases the servo
valve thus allowing hydraulic pressure into the
actuator

 This mechanism produces a force acting back on


the stick

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