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Subject:Re: Why no joint engine controls?
From:RW Walker
Date:Fri Sep 22 17:08:13 2000

"Claynpark" wrote in message
news:20000922210725.18754.00000307@ng-cj1.aol.com...
>
>
> If I had a single control
> I would push it forward for at least a couple
> of reasons--climb and faster. These two
> conditions really want different prop settings, which a single control
isnt
> going
> to allow (unless it can read my mind).
>
Helicopter FADECs sense airspeed and altitude, and vary their response to
pilot inputs accordingly. There is no reason a fixed wing FADEC couldnt do
the same.

BW



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