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Originally Posted by ruxtmp
This is the Torque effect that you are seeing. Trimming (if available on aircraft) will reduce the load that you must apply to the stick and rudder to maintain level and coordinated flight.
On a side note I noticed that most of the flyable planes seem to have low dynamic directional stablility. This produces the highly annoying back and forth swinging when using the rudder as the nose hunts out the equilibrium point. While I have never flown any of these aircraft it seems odd that they would respond to control inputs and atmospheric distrubances in this manner.
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Roger that. In the air the planes do seem quite wobbly, even at speed. My experience has been that at a given plane's high speed they're quite solid feeling as the stability built into them is for the low speed part of the envelope. And as a long time taildragger pilot I can say that on the ground the nose only goes one way when it deviates, either left or right. Trying to go in a straight line is like using your feet to keep a ball balanced on a cylinder. The more on top of it you are the less input is required and, conversely, the worse it gets the harder it is to recover.