Talk:Aircraft dynamic modes

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[edit] Poor choice of title?

"Instability modes" implies that the modes are not stable. This is untrue, at least closed-loop, for every aircraft flying today, with the notable exception of the spiral mode (where on some aircraft the pilot closes the loop to stabilize the mode). "Aircraft dynamic modes" strikes me as a better description of the contents. I don't know if I'm allowed to move pages, but if I can I may if there's no objection, and if it doesn't disturb the proposed merges. Patrick O'Leary 19:11, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

I'll give this a little more time, but I do see the merge proposals have been dropped from the page. Patrick O'Leary 17:50, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge w/ Flight Dynamics?

Now I'm wondering if this article should really exist at all, given that all the good math is already in the Flight dynamics article. Perhaps a merger is in order? Patrick O'Leary 14:54, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

The Flight dynamics article is long, and probably quite daunting to some readers. I think a separate, more accessible, article is in order. Gordon Vigurs 17:56, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps, but is this article really it? I know I just moved it to this title, but I would guess that anyone looking for information on aircraft dynamics and using the word "mode" is probably at least somewhat knowledgable in the math. I think if there were to be separate "basic" and "advanced" flight dynamics articles, we'd have to re-edit both this and flight dynamics to pick and choose, and that the bulk of this article should be under the title flight dynamics and the bulk of that here--that is, get the math into the more technically titled article. Patrick O'Leary 01:59, 20 December 2006 (UTC)