Re: Balanced vs Uncoordinated

On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:41:41 -0700 (PDT), Dudley Henriques wrote:

> On your control pressure question;
> 
> Although any control application involves "movement" of the controls,
> the amount of movement required to produce a given result is something
> I like to present to a student as a control "pressure" rather than a
> movement per se'. As airspeed changes, a given movement or pressure on
> controls will result in varying response rates due to dynamic pressure
> on the control surfaces, so the desired result in attitude change will
> be variable rather than a constant. Generally in aviation, it's
> considered an optimum way to express control of the aircraft by
> expressing that control as applying pressure to the controls rather
> than applying a "movement" of the controls.
> From the instructor's side of things, I've found students MUCH more
> receptive to thinking about aircraft control by associating that with
> pressures than with movement of the controls.

Understand, thanks.