At 08:32 20 January 2009, Bruce Hoult wrote:
On Jan 20, 12:30=A0pm, 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. Certainly
when
I learnt to fly, I thought it ought be connected the other way round,
so
it was more like a bike.

Um .. er .. what?

Aircraft pedals work in the SAME sense as bike/motorcycle handlebars
-- you push on the left one to go left then push on the right one to
roll back upright again (or to the right).

And in both cases you want to be neutral or push a little bit of
opposite (top) while steady in a turn.

So try making a slow turn to the right on a bike while holding the
handlebars to the left! Don't blame me when you fall off though!

Derek C