Gosh, can your simulator tell you all that? Guess I haven't given simulators much thought.

I'm working out the control laws for a twin model right now, but doing it by successive iteration in flight. So far I've got 5 flights and am nearly where I want to be. The model is a P-61 Black Widow. It has pretty nasty stall characteristics, so I've been slowly reducing the elevator travel to see whether I can reach a compromise where elevators still give adequate control and yet don't cause much of a stall.

My approach is to set two different elevator travels in the transmitter, one on HI rate and the other on LO rate. I take off in HI rate, then evaluate LO rate once airborne. So far on each flight I have found LO rate to give satisfactory handling so I have done the remainder of the flight in LO. Then on the next flight I set the new HI rate to whatever was LO on the previous flight, then set the new LO rate still lower. On each flight I also evaluate the stall at a safe altitude. On the first flight, the stall occurred at less than 1/2 aft stick and it was horrific. I'm now down to about half of the original elevator travel With this travel I occasionally get a mild snap at full back stick but sometimes I have to further aggravate things with a bit of rudder to cause a snap.

On the next flight I will reduce elevator travel a bit more. I'm hoping that I will be able to find a point where the stall is pretty much nonexistent while still having enough elevator travel for satisfactory flight. Typically there will be a difference in elevator travel required to stall power-on versus power-off. My transmitter isn't sophisticated enough to schedule elevator travel against throttle position, but hopefully the day will come when I have such a transmitter.

The man who built the raven models published a very nice article in RCM about 5 or 6 years ago. Lots of pictures and a very detailed explanation of the control system.

Dick