Anyone that's flown a high performance hang glider, in this case a
Sensor 510, (I'm dating myself here) knows that somtimes we would get
a tip 'stuck" when trying to turn into a strong thermal. One of the
tricks was to "pop" the control bar the opposite way of the desired
turn, and "un-stick" the wing, this would usually result in getting
the wing to go where you wanted it to go.

The other day I was flying with a buddy and we were talking about the
thermals we encountered during that flight. I told him a couple of
times I would be climbing like crazy but not able to complete the
thermal turn, so I quickly pushed the stick the opposite way, un-stuck
the wing and then easily turned into the core. He looked at me kinda
funny and said he did the same thing that day.

We both have 3 or 4 hundred hours in hang gliders and made the switch
to 3-axis many years ago, and glad of it!

Brad


On Jul 31, 1:27*pm, "noel.wade" wrote:
I probably shouldn't leap back into this mess, but let me just point
out one more thing:

People tend to think about stick movements and pedal movements when
they talk about "coordinated" flying.

But the truth of the matter is that the airplane doesn't CARE what
goes on in the cockpit. *It cares about how the air flows over the
craft and the control surfaces.

"Flying coordinated" means making WHATEVER control inputs are
required, in WHATEVER sequence necessary, to keep the airflow as
orderly and efficient as possible.

IMHO the best pilots are the ones who "detach" themselves and shift
their Point Of View to that of the aircraft itself. *They aren't
thinking about the flight in terms of how they perceive it as an
occupant from their particular seating position or their control
stick. *Thinking in terms of the aircraft and the air around it is
infinitely better than trying to act as a manipulator of levers and
pulleys inside a tube.

--Noel