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Old 3rd Aug 2010, 10:08
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DC-3

You fellers are tough that's for sure. This poor joker on his first go in these old clunkers was sure to get a few strange "feelings". I guess a lot of a/c will mostly yaw using only ailerons, so I don't know what he was up to there. And a lot will kick up a wing and turn using only rudder, but again, why even try it when all turns should use both.

I think the problem is in semantics, but again his fault.
In MY mind, I used to tend to think I was "leading" with rudder input esp in a glider which needs a wack of rudder, and other a/c that have heavy rudders yet light efective ailerons.
This joker might wonder what he was on about if he got used to the DC-3, but hey, two good landings 1st up? that's got to be worth something.
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