Originally posted by David Cutler
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.
David
I agree with your analogy, but my point was the slop remains the same irregardless of the arm length. The relationship to arm length is the other story. The thing is were not talking about inches in our application. I suspect the differences are barely notable in our scenario.