This used to be a recurring nightmare for me - in my youth - or that the
controls were frozen and I had to use the trims to fly the aircraft in
the opposite sense! It doesn't worry me any more ...
In fact, one of our pilots took off without doing his control checks some
years ago and lost control because the moving tailplane ("tailerons" or
"horizontal stabilators") were not connected. A very sad time for the
pilots at that base and for the engineers responsible - mistakes made on
both sides.
Chris
~~~~~ Giles said:
>
>My father once took up a spitfire for a maintenance check during WW2. He
>was
>rather 'disconcerted' to find that the action of the ailerons had been
>reversed so
>that left stick gave right bank. He managed to get it and himself back in
>one
>piece.
>
>Giles
>
>gary edwards wrote:
>
>> Speaking of unexpected inversions: my first ride in a bizjet was a
>> maintaince check flight in a Sabreliner 60 many years ago. After we
>>
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