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Old 2nd Apr 2017, 11:09
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mahogany bob
 
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Brian Potter

Congrats you are the first pilot who in my ( ltd ) experience prefers the SKY POINTER to the ground pointer!

Looking back I find that there was a SP thread in the Tech Log Forum - decoded 17 March 2011.It recalled an extensive study into the SP
www./leonardo.lth.se/fileadmin-re- Horizon.pdf - in which it conclusively proved that that it 5 times more likely to initiate a 'roll reversal' ie turn the wrong way when recovering from a UP using the SP!!
Every possible effort should be made to make the pilots job simple -KISS and in my opinion the Ground Pointer is simple !
After al is rather important!

PS Still think that envisaging a pointy Prussian helmet is more intuitive than the Fin - when interpreting the SP!
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