Indeed in the beginners forum the use of a gyro is inappropriate and counter productive to your climb up the airmanship ladder flying fixed wing aircraft, however there are a few limited applications where they are most useful and should not be considered a skills crutch.

One of these I have experiance with is when flying multi engine aircraft especially with more than two engines such as these, nice takeoffs can become very tough due to the uneven spoolups of all the engines. A single axis gyro set up on the rudder becomes a major asset.

Another multi engine application (gyro on the rudder) especially on two engine multi's (The configuration with the most trust disymetry when on one engine) A gyro will buy the pilot a few critical seconds to identify and react the proper rudder imput. It of course will not save the airplane but will indeed buy the pilot precious seconds.

John