SockPuppet wrote in news:MPG.21872f2936054301989692
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In article ,
says...
What bad habit was it?


Joystick inputs (for the one I have anyway) are impossible to adjust
correclty to mimic a real yoke. There are dead areas and voltage jumps
in the pots that don't exist in a cable control system, so you wind up
making sudden small corrections to keep a SIM landing smooth.

In a Cessna 152 on landing I tended to make very small, jerky, periodic
pull-backs on the yoke -- completely unnecessary and WRONG.

But once she pointed it out it wasn't hard to stop doing.

I imagine the fly by wire sticks in sophisticated newer aircraft don't
have dead spots and voltage jumps.



I fly some of the most sophisticated sims ever made and they still don't
fly like real airplanes.

they're good for procedures and illustrating how an ADF approach should
look and that is about it.



Bertie