Originally Posted by
jester_s1
Gyros added to current pattern plane designs may not make much difference. They will reduce the effects of wind turbulence, especially on more tail heavy setups. A purpose programmed fly by wire system could do more for you by compensating for coupling automatically or even correcting for wind drift. What's scary though is the airframe changes that gyros would make possible. Planes wouldn't need to be aerodynamically stable anymore, so a whole new generation of planes would come out in short order. It wouldn't take long before non-gyro planes would lose their ability to compete, necessitating either a special gyro class or simply relegating the current planes obsolete. Think of how purpose built fly by wire systems improved fighter jet performance, or look how the modern super car stability systems have made older designs seem slow by comparison.
Yep, just like I wrote in my post.
Gyros and stabiliser systems in F3A won't mean gyros and stabiliser in current designs, it'll mean a shift to electronically stabilised designs just like flybarless heli's and quad-copters rely on their electronics for stability.
Hard to say if it'll be a good or bad thing for F3A, but it'll be a massive change. Like all those changes in the past that promised to lower the costs of F3A I can't see a change like this lowering the costs either
