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Old 8th Jan 2007, 19:37
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Points taken Rainboe, and thinking about it, I spent so much of my time with new or inexperienced folk in the right seat, that I guess I find it hard to imagine not keeping token toes on the pedals, especially at critical times.


I do not believe any pilot can identify yaw in different directions and apply full control and then reverse it at that rate, then repeatedly carry it all out again.

I know that I'm beating the same drum, and perhaps alone in my thinking having become a dinosaur, but a tied gyro has been my closest friend in extreme turbulence. By extreme, I mean the horizon off the scale time and again, and 3,000 foot fluctuations in height. That little turn needle was all I had sometimes, and nothing, but nothing replaces it.
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