"Blimey, this is one way of complicating one of the simplest things"
----It's not simple.
"I couldn't care what a book says. Chuck has it nailed."
---You should ...and he doesn't.
"Don't overcomplicate things, unless you are designing the aircraft from scratch, just do whatever you need to do to make the a/c respond how you want it to."
---They are complicated. How do you know what it is you need to "do" to make the aircraft respond the way you want? Intuition ?...say along the lines of slow speed, ground coming up, pull harder on the stick...type intuition.
"Rocket science it ain't."
---Science yes ...rockets...correct at no stage were rockets mentioned.
TIM