Originally Posted by FSki

Just a thought, a lot of us old timers started flying before the advent of programmable radios, so no expo or rates, was finger and thumb better for fine movements around the centre and maybe more widely used then. Now with modern radios you can desensitize the stick around the centre so don't need such fine control movements on sensitive models, and with many fliers also having been brought up with computer games, does this make thumb flying more natural.