ORIGINAL: DenverJayhawk
i've heard when you're learning to fly, don't mess around with dual rates. Just go full rates and use expo. One day you'll be trying to pull out of tight loop and not realize that you don't have full elevator and doink it into the ground.
The problem that comes up with the younger generation is that they tend to use the sticks as on-off switches.. all the way to the right, al the way to the left.. and so on. So, using expo, although a good idea, may not be the ideal situation for those kids that tend to use the sticks that way.
We had an FAA Mini Aviation Symposium here at work one day last year, and families brought in their kids. I set up the simulator, not sure if it was AFS Pro or RF,v5 or whatever, doesn't matter. But my observation was that most of the kids that came to "play" with the simulator tended to do the switch instead of gracefully operating the controller sticks, in spite of what instruction they were given.
CGr.