I’m trying to make sure that a little custom autopilot doesn’t destroy the planes it’s flying, but there are a bunch of planes with cruise speeds that are only a few knots below their “and then it tears apart” speed, like the Kodiak 100. There’s a number of V values in the general fligth model list but nothing that looks like a “never exceed” value. Is there a way to that value so that externally interfacing code can see whether a plane is flying in the red and needs throttle/pitch intervention?
(I’m currently using fairly naive autothrottling pegged to cruisespeed, where if the indicated speed exceeds Vc, we throttle down, and if we drop below Vy we throttle up, and if we’re somewhere between Vy and Vc we creep the throttle back up to a knot or two below cruise speed. Which “works”, but doesn’t feels ideal)