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Tony Shen wrote:

> 1. Try to use the rudder to control the heading and turns. Use *very* > gentle control (use your thumb to control the yoke). 

I suppose opinions differ, but I think it is very poor piloting
to make turns by rudder.

Better to stay coordinated and make turns with aileron and rudder IMO.

"Use gentle control" is good advice.

"Trust your instruments" is good advice as far as it goes, but if
the pilot doesn't really know how to interpret the instruments
and cross-check readily, it's slightly beside the point.

> 3. You need to have a pair of good inner ear and a good sense of
> balance. :) (I might be wrong here)

Yes, I think you are wrong here; one person's inner ear and sense
of balance (no matter how good otherwise) is just as falliable
and liable to mislead them as anothers.

If someone hasn't found this out yet, IMO they haven't flown on 
instruments very much, and they aren't really safe on instruments
until they have experienced spatial disorientation or misorientation,
and fought their way through it.

I don't think a good inner ear and sense of balance are something
an instrument pilot "has to have" at all, in fact I suspect the
better they are and the more the pilot trusts in them, the more
he is 'set up' for problems when they mislead him.

Snowbird

PS a good exercise as to how your inner ear can mislead you is to
close your eyes and put your head down -- while your CFI gives 
you instructions for gentle maneuvers "turn right...OK now level...
turn left" for several minutes.  Esp. on a day with a slight amount 
of turbulance.

