Measurements of lateral control characteristics

Abstract

In the terminology of sailplane test pilots terms like the plane handles well on ...... or responds quickly to .......are often used. Pilots feel the controls of one sailplane as sufficient and the controls of another as lacking in quick response. But, the author also encountered an absurdum, namely that the feeling on one and the same type was very different and influenced through the general opinion. Only a method, giving numerical results could show the rightness or error of pilot's feelings.