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I still remember the advice on learning to land a plane. If you're going too fast, pull the nose up, too slow, push the nose down. If you're sinking too quickly
by mmcconnell1618 6y ago
I still remember the advice on learning to land a plane. If you're going too fast, pull the nose up, too slow, push the nose down. If you're sinking too quickly, add throttle, sinking too slowly add throttle. This is the reverse of what you'd normally think in airplane controls. Push the stick down to point the nose down and sink faster. But, Chuck Yeager's advice was that intuitively, you actually get better control of the glide path by thinking about throttle as up/down rate and stick up/down as speed control.