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Stabilizing Canards Tutorial

2,768 Wolfy26  one month ago

Please help me, I want to add canards to a plane but I don’t know how to program the rotor, to adjust the canards to remain flat all the time.

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    *sigh.... Let's do this one more time.
    The basic input is

    IAS > 1 ? AngleOfAttack / sensitivity * PitchRate * number : 0

    Sensitivity is exactly what it sounds like. The higher the number, the slower the canard will react.
    number should be below 1. If the canard is oscillating violently, lower the number. if it's not reacting enough, put a higher number.
    The faster you are, lower the number. The slower you are, higher the number. You will have to find the sweet spot were it works good enough through trial and error. Or, use FT to change the number depending on the airspeed.
    Or drown yourself in PID, idk.

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    I just spend a good minute writing a comment explaining it only for the site to freak out before submitting it.

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    83.6k MrCOPTY

    @OverlordPrime yeah, PID tuner make ppl cry 💀
    (I want to experiment with it, i used it only once for autothrottle in my cpa-2, but that was ages ago, i believe i can do better now)

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    83.6k MrCOPTY

    idk how to stable planes (there's a whole list of different types of flight datas & inputs you can play with)
    But i do believe i can help translating the limiter you want into a code

    when you want your canard to move?
    Are they just to stable the plane or they output pitch/roll?

    24 days ago
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    2,768 Wolfy26

    @XEPOH Ok

    one month ago
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    2,768 Wolfy26

    @overlord5453 Thank you SO MUCH for this info :3

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    @overlord5453 R.I.P

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    Sensitivity doesn't need to change with airspeed but the number does.

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    @XEPOH they both serve different purposes. Sensitivity determines how fast the canard will respod while number determines how much the canard will deflect or try to correct the AOA.

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    2,768 Wolfy26

    @overlord5453 NOOOOO

    one month ago