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Originally Posted by robtek
NZTyphoon,
bumpy conditions, where a pilot is moved around in the cockpit despite harness, are not so difficult to master if the pilot has to use some force to move the elevator.
The problem arises when minimal stick forces AND minimal stick movements are resulting in major changes.
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The notes specifically talk about the pilot jerking the stick while manoeuvring with high-g in bumpy conditions - that does not sound like minimal stick movement or forces.
Crumpp is putting a worst-case scenario on the "buffeting", a feature which many pilots have praised as a pre-stall warning, and on comments about the pilot accidentally jerking at the stick in adverse conditions; in other threads he has gone as far as to claim that early Spitfires were longitudinally unstable and dangerous to fly - as I have said before, he needs to back up such claims with solid evidence, in the same way he demanded that others provide 100% evidence for 100 Octane use. Why should we expect anything else?
07-18-2012, 01:42 AM
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