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Old 31st Dec 2013, 14:02
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mad_jock
 
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This whole take the controls off the PIC is a bit of a nightmare what ever aircraft you fly.

I have done it once in tens years. Lucky for me the skipper was very gateful and thanked me in the car park and asked if i wanted to submit a report on it.

But in general if you are flying with an instructor the likelyhood is that the aircraft is inside thier comfort zone but not yours. Take doing an approach in the tommy at 55 knts when you had only been exposed to some pillock telling you that you would die if you flew slower than 75knts, some of them teach 80knts.

For an instructor landing off a steep turn at 50ft pulling G to get rid of energy and then dumping the flap out isn`t an issue. To your normall ppl who hadn`t seen it before it would scare the hell out of them. Same with a slip to land only taking the rudder off at 20ft. All perfectly doable and glider tug pilots and meat bombers do them regularly.

So in themain it is very likely you would be doing more harm than good.
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