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Originally Posted by raaaid
haha so moving one cm = 100 kg onn the elevator
myself on the stall limit paragliding measure by grams while normally by 20 kg so youre gullible if you belive that
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You're not getting it: The stick in an F16 is not connected
mechanically to the actuators that drive the control-surfaces as you would find for example in the F4 Phantom. The stick in an F16 only moves 1/4th of an inch in order to give the stick
SOME deadzone, which was a wish from the first pilots that flew the bird since they found that a completely non-moving stick (which was what the very first production-birds actually had) was unnatural to them.
The stick in an F16 senses how much force you put on the stick, sends that input to the flight-control-computers, who then do the math to make the aircraft do what you want it to do, as long as you don't exceed the maximum G-load the aircraft can take at that speed.
So again: Posting an image of an F16-stick in this discussion is completely and utterly useless, since it's not mechanically linked directly to the control-surface actuators as you have in a Spitfire (Wire-and-pulley system) or an F4 Phantom (hydraulic system).