Timeline for Do autopilots in non-glass cockpits feed off of the gyro instruments?
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| Jun 26, 2014 at 2:05 | comment | added | voretaq7 | @falstro Typically there's some kind of electrical pick-up inside the gyro, connected to the same mechanism driving the display (this rather old one is a rate-of-turn indicator, and you can see the wound resistor and wiper arm on the left side of the photo -- Based on the resistance the autopilot knows what the rate-of-turn indicator is showing, and can act accordingly). Several designs exist, designed to work with different autopilots. | |
| Jun 25, 2014 at 13:33 | comment | added | falstro | Hi Emil! Thanks, I deliberately made the distinction non-glass cockpit, as there the sensors are designed to be read electronically. In a non-glass cockpit the sensors are primarily read mechanically, with the gyro physically touching some mechanism moving the 'little airplane' around. Do you have any idea how this information gets conveyed to the autopilot? Is it standardized? | |
| Jun 25, 2014 at 11:53 | comment | added | Emil | @DeltaLima: I added some extracts from the flight manual of a analog instruments helicopter with AP. Unfortunately the description in the manual is not very detailed (there are no schematics). | |
| Jun 25, 2014 at 11:50 | history | edited | Emil | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 25, 2014 at 11:15 | comment | added | DeltaLima♦ | Hello Emil, welcome to Aviation.SE. Can you provide any reference to your answer? While I believe your answer basically is right, the answer would benefit from some background / links. | |
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| Jun 25, 2014 at 10:47 | history | answered | Emil | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
