Originally Posted by
Easy Street
Maybe not a balanced turn as taught for GA in the sense that rudder is generally not consciously applied by the pilot, but in all of the FJ types I've flown it would be expected that the ball stayed roughly in the middle under the action of stability augmentation systems (yaw dampers and the like) so the practical outcome was a balanced turn. I never flew the Jag, but understood that it was particularly prone to departure from controlled flight under pitch-yaw coupling...
I consciously decided to leave SAS and 'carefree handling' out of it but knew someone would have something to say about it.