On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:30:03 +0000, Derek Copeland wrote:

The easiest way of thinking about the ailerons is that they roll the
glider in the direction the stick is pushed. Most people find this
fairly instinctive: It's usually the rudder they find difficult.

That certainly describes me, though I'd done just enough casual GA flying
(i.e. in friend's planes) to have overcome rudder direction problems
before I started learning to fly gliders. I've never had stick problems,
probably because I realized very early on that you move the top of the
stick to 'push' the glider to the attitude you want and its the same in
both axes.

I can see one advantage to connecting the pedals the way they are. Your
knee is never in the way of the stick when starting or leaving a turn. At
a guess a conventionally placed stick would be unusable if the pedals
were connected to work like a bike's handlebars because there would
always be a knee in the way.


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