The micro servos are good idea spaceworm, that had crossed my mind, but if the animated flight stick got stuck for whatever the reason, I still wouldn't want a stalled servo on the power buss for any length of time, so I would still put some sort of override spring even with the separate micro servos... my thinking was to add another scale element and simulate the aileron control cable, but utilize its movement to manipulate the flight stick.
Cubcrasher, the tailwheel spring could work for the elevator side of the animation control linkage, since it will compress, or stretch with the elevator servo push / pull movement... for the aileron, maybe some light weight "tension" springs, that are setup with some pre-tension on them to keep the cables taught at all times, but with enough stretch left just in case something binds... something to sort out when the time comes... I definitely want to animate the sticks, but it has to be done in a way that it doesn't cause any problems.
John M,