For someone who has pretty much no manual dexterity my hands are
remarkably quick when I don’t want them to be.
TOI was mildly bemused at the fact that I can happily talk through
a manoeuvre, explaining what I need to do, while my hands proceed to do the
exact opposite.
A couple of examples ( so it is not even a one off thing) : Spiral
dive, TOI puts me into one and calls “recover”. I talk through the stages of
recovery out loud:
“throttle idle”
“level the wings”
“now pull out of the dive”
“bleed off the airspeed”
“now recover lost altitude”
Unfortunately even as my mouth is saying the words, my hands have
wandered off and started doing their own thing. Not waiting until my wings are
level before bringing the nose up.
Ditto with stalls. I’m no longer whimpering out loud at the thought
of doing power on ones but TOI has been a little on the nasty side in
requesting a climbing, turning power on stall. Guaranteed wing drop.
Even as I’m verbalising “No ailerons”, my hands are threatening to
yank that control column around.
They honestly seem to have a life of their own at the moment
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