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Old 26th August 2011 | 12:08
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Originally Posted by HarryMann
Oh yes, another thing...

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So be gentle with the aeroplane at high altitude . Make control movements slowly and smoothly and recover from divergences in the same manner.
one good reason for this, is the reduced aerodynamic damping at altitude.
whether this is still taught, explicitly, or left to the control laws to sort out today, would be interesting.
One would think that this is one of the basics of flying that class of aircraft, just as the "in out and down" pattern is taught to helicopter pilots first learning to hover. (Or something like is mentioned here Visual Cues When Hovering Helicopters | helicopterblog.com)
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