Originally Posted by
LGM Graphix
I can't answer your question about a sensor but there is no way I would set a function like wing swing to happen automatically. That just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Judging airspeed is difficult and even with telemetry telling you the speed it's not like speeding up or slowing down is instant. Imagine coming off the bottom of a loop and airspeed all of a sudden says swing the wings. Now maybe you're too close to the ground to pull out with the wings back or on the way.
Besides that in every video of F14's I have watched nobody keeps the wings swept for long. I've never flown one but it appears that perhaps they are much more of a handful with the wings swept than when extended. Just seems like a bad idea to me.
your mileage may vary.
I concur; there's no way I'd set up something like that on my F14 and I've not even flown it yet....
There are numerous considerations when programming that model such as making the flaps retract if you start moving the wings back. Eliminating the spoilers (it doesn't have ailerons or at least my Skymaster F14 does not), whether or not you want the leading edges deployed or retracted, a substantial decrease in the elevons deflection and expo. Long story short; it took all 18 channels of a Futaba 18MZ to cover everything and that does not include a speed related automatic actuation of the wing sweep.....