Aircraft and aircraft control method

An aircraft comprising:

• a control stick for a pilot to maneuver a craft;
• an amount-of-rudder-control transmitting part that mechanically transmits an amount of manipulation of the control stick to a rudder controlling part;
• a detecting part that detects the amount of manipulation;
• an amount-of-control calculating part that calculates an amount of control for the craft in accordance with the amount of manipulation detected by the detecting part;
• an amount-of-change outputting part that outputs, among the amounts of manipulation detected by the detecting part, an amount of change in the amounts of manipulation;
• a subtracting part that subtracts the amount of change output from the amount-of-change outputting part from the amount of control calculated by the amount-of-control calculating part;
• and
• an actuator that adds an amount of manipulation in accordance with a subtracted value output from the subtracting part to the amount of manipulation transmitted by the amount-of-rudder-control transmitting part.

An aircraft control method which is a method of controlling an aircraft provided with a control stick for a pilot to maneuver a craft, an amount-of-rudder-control transmitting part that mechanically transmits an amount of manipulation of the control stick to a rudder controlling part, a detecting part that detects the amount of manipulation, an amount-of-control calculating part that calculates an amount of control for the craft in accordance with the amount of manipulation detected by the detecting part, the aircraft control method comprising:

• a first step of outputting, among the amounts of manipulation detected by the detecting part, an amount of change in the amounts of manipulation;
• a second step of subtracting the amount of change from the amount of control calculated by the amount-of-control calculating part;
• and
• a third step of driving the rudder controlling part by adding an amount of movement of the actuator in accordance with a subtracted value obtained by the subtraction performed in the second step to the amount of manipulation transmitted by the amount-of-rudder-control transmitting part.