B A R R Y wrote:
On Sat, 17 May 2008 13:55:22 -0400, Dudley Henriques
wrote:

Another good way of preventing excessive grip on the stick or yoke is to
start the student from day one handling the airplane with their
fingertips ONLY. Worked well for me for every student I taught to fly.


My instructor did the same.

One or two fingers and a thumb, trim to make it possible.

Trim, trim, and trim some more...

On long cross countries in some of the WW2 prop fighters we handled on
occasion, I would set up and trim out carefully then relax in the seat
as comfortably as I could and fly the trim wheels. With a bit of
practice it became possible to hold the altimeter needle to within a few
feet of desired :-)

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Dudley Henriques