On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 08:24:41 -0000, Dylan Smith
wrote:

On 2005-10-01, john smith wrote:
Then again, a Piper Arrow generally won't do so either (all the Arrows I
find have had a fairly pronounced and slow phugoid oscillation. In fact,
I find the Beech Bonanza a lot less work to fly IFR than an Arrow
because the Bonana flies better hands-off).

Then again, the Bonanza has a side-side tail wiggle that other airplanes
do not. And nothing short of a yaw damper will stop it.

I've not found the Bonanza waggle to be something that makes it not fly
hands-off: it's short period, doesn't result in a net course change and
not particularly severe (well, unless you're in the back seat).

It does tend to raise the "barf factor" a tad, but it does that in the
straight tails too.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com