Well, yeah, but...  if it's a wing leveler, you probably don't *want* it
to see a coordinated turn, do you?  That might make changing directions a
little difficult.  I thouht the original goal was to keep the wings level
to prevent uncoordinated (and one would assume unwanted) turns.

Dale

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Leslie Lowe wrote:

> Yeah that's a good one, I guess a further question would be HOW TO detect
> tilt during a coordinated turn? I am certain you cannot detect a coordinated
> turn with either an inclinometer or an accelerometer. I suppose the sensors
> would read zero or neutral.
>
> <SNIP>
> "I predict it will be ok during non accelerating forward flight, for which
> it will be most of the time."
> <SNIP>
>
> Leslie Lowe
>
>
> >From: "James R. Cunningham" <jrccea@BELLSOUTH.NET>
> >Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> >To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> >Subject: Re: [PICLIST] [EE]: "Tilt-o-meter" for RC plane
> >Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 01:15:42 -0700
> >
> >How does the inclinometer detect a coordinated turn?
> >
> >Jim

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