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Old 12th Feb 2011, 16:51
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JW411
 
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I have absolutely no real desire to contribute to this discussion except for one extraordinary memory that I have of ex-Metro pilots.

About 20 years ago, I was training an ex-RAF pilot who had been flying the Metro, how to fly the BAe146. I could not believe how much aileron he was applying to achieve almost every manoeuvre in the simulator. He soon settled down but we had to go through the same exercise (to a lesser extent) when we got to the BAe146 aeroplane.

A couple of years later, I encountered another pilot with exactly the same problem. "You haven't just been flying Metros have you?" said I. "Yes indeed", said he, "how did you know?".

Then I had a third one!

Perhaps those of you out there who actually know what you are talking about could tell me if it really was necessary to use a lot of aileron on the Metro to make it do what you wanted it to do?
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