Great to hear that side of Flight Simulation!Originally Posted by lnuss
Great to hear that side of Flight Simulation!
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As someone walked up behind me and said about two years after I began work at Douglas Aircraft. "See What I Mean?"
I am going to amend and revise my previous post. For me as a pilot, my original comment stands. But, I have a different comment as a flight instructor, based on out chapter's flight simulator set up. (Long intro for one sentence.)
To introduce Young Eagles and rusty pilots to the fundamentals of flight and the interaction of flight controls -- before getting into the plane.
I chose you to reply to as my parents were teachers and my sister also. I myself always tell people right away, I am not a teacher." But I recently realized I have "teacher emotions" I have genuine blood sweat and tears emotional tie to failure that I tried to support. There is no sense of loss or emptiness. So here is a hint for those who gloss over it. For someone who rode a motorcycle and is used to leaning and to passengers not leaning, The kind of simulator without a moving base "leans the wrong way!" I realized this at a contractor who was making a electronic warfare officer training aid with a junked real set of EWO gear driven by various prop electrical, mechanical, and pneumatic items. To give realistic scenarios a pilot console was built with a projector TV and a technician flew that setup as the pilot while a student was allowed to act out the EWO aspect.
As I stood behind the technician I was moved to say "it's rolling the wrong way!" But I held my peace and the group of engineers I was with did not learn my view. Do you understand this post? Probably not so I would suggest this cue. The McDonnell engineer simulator with a ball for display had a pilot seat that was fixed and had a g-cushion to give the seated "pilot" a prompt that he was making a pull on the stick. I considered a "differential g-cushion" that had two sides to the seat cushion to prompt the student which way the simulated aircraft was rolling. Then the glare shield would begin to roll in that direction and when the horizon seemed to roll the other way in contravention to the rules of inertia as if you could move the earth with your joy stick or yoke it would all be consistent as real pilots view things. I have kept this to myself as it is unnecessary on moving base simulators or even the 5-DOF on a boom with rolling pitching cab. QED
Side to side motion simulates yawing, and particularly uncommanded or uncoordinated yaw, which are each extremely undesirable. No need for a rotating platform for that. Otherwise, in a properly coordinated turn, there is no perception of rolling, except for visual cues. there will be the g-load factor, but again, in a properly coordinated turn, that will be staring don, not to the side, as would be the case if the platform tipped. If the turn is to coordinated, then there will be a perceived imbalance, which can be simulated in a sidewise motion. Sideways motion can also be used to stimulate a sense of the "leans." This is particularly effective if combined with a hazy light from the side.
In my experience, sideways tipping of the platform generally produces an unrealistic sensory effect when simulating a coordinated rolling motion. However, a backward pitch does reasonable job of a "momentary" g loading. But this is all off topic.
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