ORIGINAL: DKjens

Sprink,
Just for some clarification here. Your mentioning of an F-14 waving it's ailerons/flapperons as it comes in for a landing, and you doing the same. I think you are mixing apples and oranges here. The F-14, and many other fighter planes as well as others, as you probably know, are fly by wire. What ever the control surfaces are doing, does not have much to do with the pilots stick inputs, but rather depends on how the on-board computer(s) decide(s) these inputs should be transfoormed to the planes attitude. You can also see it every time a fighter, or other jet with high wing loading, comes in for a landing. The full flying horizontal stab is really working hard, not likely that the pilot is sitting there jamming the stick back and forth, but because of the high wing loading and slow speed, the stab is not very efficient, and therefore has to move alot to have any effect.
DKjens