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Old 17th May 2010 | 08:04
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Chesty Morgan
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From: In your head.
There are low input pilots and there are high input pilots.

High input pilots tend to correct every little tiny deviation immediately.
Low input pilots are a bit more gentle.

Some pilots,as soon as the automatics are taken out, feel the need to start wanging the control column around and this often leads to self induced turbulence and can sometimes lead to a bit of a rough ride.

All of that aside if you imagine a cone, with the pointy end stuck on the ground, and on about a 3 degree angle from the horizontal you have a pretty good picture of your ILS deviation limits. Now if you're 10 miles out, in the big end of the cone, you find yourself with a fair bit of space between the walls of the cone so quick and accurate corrections aren't really necessary. The closer you get to landing, the pointy end, you can picture the cone narrowing, you have less space to mess around in so you have to make quicker corrections to ensure you keep an accurate approach path, hopefully aiming for the touchdown zone. So you'll find the closer to landing you are the more you'll be correcting your flight path. And as has been said before you need a bigger input at a lower speed to get the same rate of pitch and or roll. Throw in some wind and bumps and you can easily imagine you have to be pretty positive with your inputs.

Some people are really good at this and are smooth and precise and some just aren't.
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