Maybe part of the confusion, a comment from another thread, but not the actual rule.
Re: Data logging accelerometer
« Reply #31 on: December 21, 2021, 01:53:31 PM »
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Quote from: Ken Culbertson on December 21, 2021, 11:49:33 AM
This is beyond cool. It would have wild bill rolling over in his grave. Fly by wire. If done without the aid of radio it is probably legal. It might even be legal to eliminate the bellcrank entirely and have the signal come directly from the handle as long as it was done w/o the aid of radio. So after designing the ultimate arm mounted Joy Stick we reference further and find there is only a 1 line requirement and although there is a requirement to have the center of the circle marked, I can find no requirement to have the pilot stand in it!. So we *could* have a 5' center post that we borrowed from the speed guys tether the plane while we sit back and fly from our lawn chairs. And that is just the beginning... How long before we become just a VR app?
It is not a servo -- it used to be a servo. It's a servo that's been gutted of all its gears, and the electronics replaced with a sensor transmitter. It's just a convenient position sensor mounted to a shaft, in a box with room for electronics, all packaged in a way that matches the vernacular of connecting stuff up mechanically inside a toy airplane.
Quote from: Ken Culbertson on December 21, 2021, 11:49:33 AM
I would support a rule change to block this sort of thing from ever happening, but it won't. It is building season and the mind wanders.
Ken
Too late -- that rule got accepted this rules change cycle. Brett Buck started it but ended up just throwing it to the community. I completed it and filed it.
No moving flight controls by any means other than mechanically.
No thrust vectoring.
Thrust control via motor speed or pitch changes is allowed, but only if it does not change direction of thrust.