Stick and rudder
 

I love stick and rudder airplanes!!! What say you?

The A-4 doesn't even have rudder steering. Differential breaking.
http://www.freewebs.com/jeffhead/wor.../saopaulo4.jpg

Absoutely, that's why I prefer flying gliders. With no propwash to act on the vertical stabiliser, you have to give them a bootfull of rudder to get them into a turn, and the adverse yaw on a single seater with an 18 metre wingspan is something to behold - it's the only way to fly.

Mind you, it's always funny the first time you do a turn in a powered aircraft after not having flown one for a long time, and you enter the turn like that, forgetting about the propwash!

:rotfl:

:D Chock

I also prefer gliders on occasion. Something about the sound of wind rushing by and nothing else, and then spending your time looking for a thermal or two. Its been 22 years since I last flew one though. Not many places around here anymore is the reason why. I started in on a gliders license back then until they closed the field they flew out of shortly after. I never took it up after that because of the distance needed to travel to get anyplace with training. I might still have my logbook for it.

-S

I take it you know about this Subman:

http://www.condorsoaring.com/

Handy if you can't get to an airfield, and probably the most realistic PC-based flight simulator there is in terms of making you feel like you are there, especially when combined with Track IR. when I saw the demo video on that site for how it emulates a spin, I ordered it immediately, good fun online too.

:D Chock

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