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Old February 19th 17, 07:08 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Why are side sticks unpopular in sailplanes

It's probably worth adding that there were a number of factors that made the HP-18 a lot of work to fly well, among them irreducible play in the stick aileron motion, no aileron differential(!!), small tail volume, no hands off stability at all. It wasn't really my intention to blame the wear out factor on the stick location, but it probably came out that way.

-Evan