Well here's my two cents worth. When I was a student I kept trying to "steer" the airplane with the yoke because the old brain to couldn't put the feet and hand coordination thing together yet. But as soon as I was put behind the stick of a Pazmany PL2 a friend of mind had, well the feet and head and hands all came together. It was a much more natural feeling and I never once tried to steer the airplane with my hands.
Fred Johnson Reno, NV -----Original Message----- From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net] On Behalf Of Red 'Unpublished' Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 11:29 AM To: KRnet Subject: Re: KR> Yokes -vs- Sticks/ brakes Not trying to be argumentative...but I was always told that people were used to a steering wheel in front of them. The yoke was substituted to make passengers and some pilots more comfortable. "Dave Arbogast, CISSP" <k...@arb.net> wrote: We should remember why yokes were invented in the first place - the stick is the "original" design because it was simple ( I.E. less weight and less parts to fail) and easy to use... the yoke was invented out of necessity because planes got bigger and the mechanical advantage of the stick had to be increased for the ailerons. We don't have that problem so why would be want to carry the extra weight and complexity ? -dave Larry&Sallie Flesner wrote:
