> If you’re a pilot landing a plane applying significant rudder inputs, doesn’t the above me that those inputs will have a vastly different effect once the wheels touch the runway?
IANAP so hopefully someone will correct me, but from my understanding in this case the answer would be “yes, they will have a different effect, as they should”.
Rudder is used in crosswind landings to maintain runway alignment while still in air; once enough weight is on wheels and speed is low enough rudder quickly loses its effectiveness and control shifts to wheel steering and brakes.
That said, I suspect it doesn’t help that flight computer sort of has a binary context flag (either we are in the air or on the ground), it might have simplified some of the business logic but does not seem to map well to reality at a crucial moment. If imagined in slow motion, the system doesn’t just flip a state but goes through a spectrum.
IANAP so hopefully someone will correct me, but from my understanding in this case the answer would be “yes, they will have a different effect, as they should”.
Rudder is used in crosswind landings to maintain runway alignment while still in air; once enough weight is on wheels and speed is low enough rudder quickly loses its effectiveness and control shifts to wheel steering and brakes.
That said, I suspect it doesn’t help that flight computer sort of has a binary context flag (either we are in the air or on the ground), it might have simplified some of the business logic but does not seem to map well to reality at a crucial moment. If imagined in slow motion, the system doesn’t just flip a state but goes through a spectrum.