yakker.
Very much so. Great pity. Page 240 para three mentions when I went past 20deg one day (quite right on the angle BOAC) and with a little back movement on the lever all became sweetness and light again.
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Yes it was a seat of the pants job. Very easy like that. If you felt you were accelerating forward then more back stick was needed and if you felt you were accelerating backwards then more nozzle was needed. All so much easier to do than write about.
The nozzle angle scale painted on the fuselage side side was a useful cross check between the cockpit nozzle angle gauge indication and the nozzle angle scale alongside the throttle box. However it would be wrong in my view to suggest that a few degrees of error in any nozzle angle used was going to have much effect the way the aircraft flew with two exceptions. One being the angle used to hover as this needed to be right or the fuselage attitude would be outside the range that suited the undercarriage on a VL and the other was the 20 deg we have mentioned.
Urban myths are just that?
JF