> > To be fair, however, what many people call "unflyable" around here isn't > > anywhere near the case. The most recent JSBSim complaint, for example, > > only took two clicks of keyboard aileron to correct at climbout speeds. > > I was talking to a pilot friend of mine the other day. He was telling me > that during takeoff pilots are so accustomed to countering the various > torques on the aircraft by using small corrections that they almost don't > even notice it, or forget they are doing it. It's just natural. If one's > setup does not include rudder pedals, I wonder if that's an impediment to > judging the takeoff controllability? I don't know. I haven't flown for > real in a long time. And the vehicles I have lots of real flight simulator > experience in don't really count . ;-)
If you're flying a real aircraft (aka JSB etc) rather than LaRC or MS (that don't do yaw properly), it is well worth using the rudder. On the keyboard, I probably hit "0" and "enter" at least as often as I use the arrow keys for the yoke. Of course, I use the "home" and "end" keys each a lot more than any of those six (but so what). _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
