"if balanced flight is important to you obviously. It seems more and more of the newer pilots don't care."
And a lot of older ones, too. A few years back a co-pilot said to me that I must have done some gliding. Why do you say that, I asked. Because you're the only captain (moderate size company) I've come across who keeps the ' ball in the middle'.
And while I'm at it, centre-line tracking post take-off is also becoming something to be filed under 'can't be bothered about'. I frequently line up, stiff crosswind, and watch the aircraft departing ahead drift further and further from the extended centreline - no apparent effort whatsoever to maintain it. What are they teaching at flight schools nowadays?
