I've been instructing since 1985 (powered and glider, fixed wing and rotary, with anywhere from one to four wheels, sometimes one or more skids, taildragger or nosewheel) and never saw that problem. No smashed up aircraft here either.
Me too! Most aircraft control stations have evolved to their current layout because the system works. If I fly a Pitts, Citabria, or a single seat or tandem gyro, the stick is controlled with my right hand and the power lever is in my left. If I fly a Cessna, Beech (except T34), etc. from the left seat, the yoke is in my left hand and power is controlled with my right.
And in all likelihood, after a few lessons under the tutelage of a gyro CFI in a “real” gyro, all my analysis paralysis will evaporate into the same thin hot air I’m so full of lol!
This is the type of explanation I needed for my addled brain. Thanks again.
Good call, great explanation. That make sense from a fine muscle control perspective.
Hi Brian
I’m still not certain what exactly was happening. We were at 3500 feet, flaps fully extended, around 70 knots, practicing slow speed maneuvers. The CFI wanted me to see how sluggish and mushy it responded at slower speeds with flaps fully extended, in anticipation of eventual landing practice. I think I was just gripping the yoke too tight at the time, and it started slowly swaying. I’m not even clear now if it was yaw or roll to be honest (in my mind it seemed to be yaw but it could well have been roll). I let go of the yoke and it stopped, grabbed it again and it started again. Let go and the CFI said to just use two fingers and hold the yoke lightly. And it stopped.
They were common at my club and in a few other places. You still see them about but they are not the most common stick style. But uncommon doesn't mean not good.
No just normal bank. Think Bensen overhead stick (with t -handle but on top of the cyclic). The reason we did it was people were tending to pull to the right when tense. We worked out they were tensing on the controls and you are holding the stick with one hand when they would do this they would pull to the right. Putting on the T bar meant they were (if getting tense) pulling straight back not to one side.
Did you ever hear of the bloke down here who had a semi automatic set up on his gyro to shoot pigs?It is not set up in countersteering style. It is nothing more than a standard joystick with a tee bar across the top with a twist grip. Function is identical to a joystick. Hundreds of thousands of hours have been flown with this setup with no known complaints about banking.
It is a gyrocopter, so the norm for a helicopter is a bit irrelevant. What is relevant is it is the norm for motorcycles which is what many (probably most) of these single seat pilots were/are "transitioning" from.
However, I do know one fellow who has the twist grip on left to free his dominant right hand to throw stones at feral camels etc
When we did surgery on the tiny bones, ligaments, nerves etc. of the ankle, feet and toes, we always had at least one finger of one hand steadied on the OR table or the surgical drape over the limb. There was no way to make the fine movements necessary for such delicate surgery without steadying your hand on something.
With the gun on?Yeah, did hear that one. Same fella who used to fly in a "back to nature" flying suit
Sign writers would do something similar they'd have a stick with a pad on the end which they would put on window or wall they were painting on (not on the painted bits) and rest their hand they were painting on to get a smoother curve. When I went solo in the glider the dual stick would be either side of you so you'd have the hands on both sticks. It wasn't a problem, probably had a similar effect.
