Okay so I always thought that when the elevator moved up then the canards angled down but I have been playing ace combat and the canards don't move like that. I was just wondering if ace combat canard movement is correct and how canards really work in simple terms.
You can solve that by pitching the canards down to counter act that
i forgot to mention: your center of lift will be displaced a bit ahead when you put canard ailerons on your plane, if you dont know how to balance the plane efficiently, so it's not neccesary to add too much weight, it will be a bit problematic. hope you can understand what i said, im not good explaining things
@QuantumSandwich your planes are cool. I do get the general idea of canards but I have made it my goal to figure out how they work.
Canards work the same way all wings do. They will generate lift in what ever direction has the fastest airflow over the surface thanks to the Bernoulli Principle. But, since it's forward of the center of mass, you need a downforce to dip the nose, and a lifting force to raise it. It's why flaps deploy on the the bottoms of wings, and spoilers deploy on the tops. So they should be opposite a tail's elevators.
check one of my planes if you need an idea (i'm not trying to promote myself)
the front of the canard should angle up when you pull up