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Old 04-21-2012, 12:26 PM
Sandstone Sandstone is offline
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Originally Posted by Kurfürst View Post
I guess its just more profilic in the case of the Spit, which had ultra sensitive pitch control compared to all others.
I think it was sensitive and like many aircraft of this era had poorly harmonised controls, but it can't realistically be described as "ultra sensitive", otherwise the literature would be full of accounts of Spits getting bent in PIOs on landing. It's also possible to over-estimate the impact of poorly-harmonised controls. In my limited experience of flying, you quickly adjust to the control forces needed for different aircraft and it ceases to be a problem, unless they are so high as to be tiring.