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Old 05-20-2010, 08:08 AM
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bilboa
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Default RE: Inverted Harrier...Words of wisdom??

My trick for remembering which way to move the rudder stick is:

When the plane is upright, the rudder stick controls the end of the plane that's farthest from me.
When the plane is inverted, the rudder stick controls the end of the plane that's closest to me.

So when upright, when the plane is flying away from me I think of the rudder stick as controlling the nose, and when the plane is flying toward me I think of it as controlling the tail.

And when inverted, when the plane is flying away from me I think of the rudder stick as controlling the tail, and when the plane is flying toward me I think of it as controlling the nose.

When doing harrier turns, you usually need to hold aileron input opposite to the rudder input. One tricky thing to get used to is that when upright, this means you move the aileron stick in the opposite direction to the rudder stick, but when inverted you move the aileron stick in the same direction as the rudder stick.