Meaning of sidestick | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A control joystick located beside the seat of the pilot.
2. A sloped or beveled piece of wood or metal placed against the side of a page that is being typeset, and locked in place by quoins.
   historical

Examples

“The FDR showed that the captain immediately applied back pressure on his sidestick to arrest the pitch-down movement. The aircraft’s flight control system did not initially respond to the captain’s sidestick input, but after about 2 seconds the aircraft responded normally and the captain commenced recovery to the assigned altitude. During this 2-second period the aircraft descended about 150 ft. Overall, the aircraft descended 690 ft over 23 seconds before returning to FL370.”

“The sidesticks should be of the full length of the page, and abut against the headsticks on the outside of the form .”

“Neither the sidestick nor the footstick should project beyond the other, as it will prevent the quoins from passing, and in unlocking will give a great deal of trouble.”

“In using common footsticks and sidesticks, however, the broad part of the sidestick would be at the top left-hand corner of the left side section of the forme, and the broad part of the footstick at the lower right-hand corner.”

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