On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Oyvind Kaurstad wrote:

> The CSM gyro has solved this problem by making it a "yaw rate demand"
> gyro. The stick input reflects the yaw rate that the pilot wishes, and not
> the deflection of the tail rotor blades. (Not directly, anyway)
>
> This is clever, I think. The gyro will not "fight" the control input from the
> pilot, like in a conventional system.

I think that most flying things are moving to rate demand control, with
the introduction of closed-loop fly by wire. This is much more intuitive
than the usual human-controlled 'PID' that takes years to learn ;)

> It's pure fun. I just want to see if I'm able to make a working system.
> This is not job related at all, I'm going to do this in my spare time.

So have fun !

Peter