Pete Zeugma wrote:

Ah, power planes, not gliders! Do you not think perhaps
we should be differentiating between rudder usage in
power plane, and a glider? I started flying originally
in gliders, so I dont have any bad habits from power
flying, and when I fly powered aircraft, i cant help
but fly coordinated all the time. I know that power
pilots who make the transition to gliders quite often
make fundemental errors due to the power mindset when
sat in a glider. What do you think?

Absolutely there are subtle differences that get overlooked.
Primacy is a factor here. Use of spoilers, wheel brake
not at the feet, no stall horn, can't use throttle to
descend, actually seeing adverse yaw, etc. All these
were probably much harder to learn (unlearn) than if
one started as a glider pilot first.

And the whole idea of energy management for rollout and
taxi was completely new, and the one wheel thing
and possibility of groundloop, etc. etc. etc.

Absolutely there are bad habits from transition.
And catching all of them is unlikely without additional
study by the student or new pilot. Instruction and
experience only go so far...study and discussion for me
seem to take it that extra step...

Cheers!

Mark