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The flying qualities of an aircraft can be split into two components—handling and performance. Handling qualities determine how responsive the aircraft is to perturbations from regular flying conditions, and how easily, and safely, a pilot can recover from such a perturbation. This chapter will concentrate mainly on handling qualities, and in particular the civil codes that define minimum handling standards and how these relate to preferable handling qualities.
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine.
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Sometimes incorrectly expressed as “Minimums” in North America.
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As a rule of thumb: any engineer or pilot using terms such as “the aeroplane was very stable”, or “stability is high” does not understand stability and control and should not be relied upon.
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Gratton, G. (2015). An Introduction to Flying Qualities Evaluation. In: Initial Airworthiness. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11409-5_11
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