Originally posted by mglavin
How does this happen? Slop is slop. If its present the control arm lengths don't realize it moving or not, it simply exists and is not a variable of arm length, me thinks.
True, slop is slop, but if the arms are, say, twice the length, then the slop (which doesn't change) is only half the amount it was in relation to the size of the movement of the arms.
Or, to put it another way, suppose your slop is 1/100 of an inch and the arms move 1 inch. If you double the movement of the arms to 2 inches the percentage slop is not now 1 in 100 but 1 in 200 so the angle the control horn makes as it slops is half what it was before, therefore half the control surface movement,
-David C.