Cocoa Beach Kiter said:
Mori55 said:
In home lock, roll input, with no pitch, will result in circling the home point.
Wow, thanks for the post. That makes sense. I have only used the "back" input. Never thought about what would happen if left or right input was used.
No problem. Home lock is represented by the wheel and spokes model, with the home point at the center. Pitch drives it out (or back) along whichever radius (spoke) that it is positioned on, while roll drives it circumferentially, clockwise or counter-clockwise, keeping it equidistant from the home point.
Course lock is represented by a 2-D rectilinear grid, with one axis parallel to the direction that the aircraft was facing when CL was last registered - typically at power up unless it is later reset by S2 toggling. Pitch drives it along that CL axis, and roll drives it orthogonally.