WingFlaps wrote in
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On Feb 18, 5:45*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
WJRFlyBoy wrote
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On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:30:49 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

I noticed that ex-navy guys
never stepped on the ball, they moved the stick in the direction
the ball needed to go. I asked one about this and he told me
that's what you do to co-ordinate! Interesting. It works just as
well and unless you're making a gross correction you'd never
notice the difference. I guess it comes from a *naval notion of
the rudder being the primary control or something..

Holy ****, I thought it was me and my newbieness. I am working NAS
JAX and spending time with the NAS and I get the same
conversations.

No reason why it wouldn't work just as well! As long as you're co-
ordinated.


I hadn't thought of that, but how would you line up with a x-wind for
landing... Is it that the undercarts are so strong they really don
care that much?


They just do this to center the ball. It's a six of one, half dozen of the
other type of thing. Nothing to do with crossing the controls for a
landing. Presumably they do that the same way as anyone else.


Bertie