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Originally Posted by Sutts
Just an interesting and quite surprising note from the MkII Spit manual with regard to the use of rudder:
"Feet may be taken off the rudder controls to save fatigue, as its use is only necessary when taking-off, landing, flying at low speed or aerobatics. Even aerobatics, such as rolls, can be done with feet clear of the rudder control, but rudder would be needed for recovery of the manoevre were badly done."
Does anyone else find this surprising? I always thought that using the rudder to keep the ball centered in turns was an essential part of efficient flying and an automatic habit with seasoned pilots. Is it possible that the spit kept itself perfectly aligned in turns without use of the rudder?
On a side note, I've recently read "Gun Button To Fire" - an account by Tom Neil who flew Hurricane Is through the BoB. He refers to having to use full rudder in power climbs and dives and laments the failure of the designers to include rudder trim as it was quite tiring on the legs. We don't see the need for this kind of rudder input in the sim.
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well i fly with a quite full set up, hotas, pedals and quadrant and can say that without felling the g's and inertia like in real life have the feets on the pedal for quite long is quite tiring