Originally Posted by
VigilantPilot
...generally a new guy would end up in a PIO by trying to roll wings towards the centre position again. For a brand new guy behind a tanker this usually ended up in a comically divergent PIO.
Poor instruction? At EFT, we teach "bank ON, bank OFF" when adjusting lateral spacing formating behind another aircraft. The temptation is normally to maintain a roll input for too long thus precipitating a PIO so the bank ON/OFF technique usually negates this but as I have no experience of flying one heavy behind another, I'm not sure if this technique would be relevant. But it's what we teach.