Aileron

I downloaded the demo for X-Plane 10 the other day, but now I kind of regret it. It's a lot of fun and all, but I tried practicing landings and for one reason or another, I always bounce or crash in my X-Plane landings. Granted, I'm just using the mouse and keyboard, and one of those nice simulator yoke/pedal sets would probably make things easier to control, but I had this image burned into my head of bad landings, and it kind of came back to me when I was practicing real landings Wednesday night; not good. The real plane felt nothing like the simulator – by the time we got to the ground it had no lift left and gladly stayed down. I'm not going to save any flight training money by practicing on my laptop, unfortunately.

It's hard enough to keep one set of physics in my head, I probably shouldn't confuse it with a second one just yet.

"Good point, David, but hm, in your world, do they let you do aileron rolls at 300 ft in the NASA B747-400 Shuttle Carrier?"