Re. the Whirlwind cyclic 'feel' as against the Wessex, VERY light indeed!! When I first got to SAR at Thorney, a story was current of a previous Flt Cdr -(one 'Punch-Up P..... r' , for reasons we won't go into!!
) He was built like the proverbial outhouse and found the lightness of Ww controls not to his taste. He, therefore, used to tighten the fore and aft and lateral frictions to absolute maximum. He had completed a flight just before the visiting 'trapper' pilot decided to have a bit of local continuity flying - ... the resultant take-off and transition was, to say the least, interesting - couldn't take his feet of the pedals to adjust the friction until he got to 60 kts and getting there needed mucho muscles!!
