🎥 B-29 Landing: LOT of Wheel Movement

[Panther_99FS]

 

[stansdds]

Does seem like it takes a lot of input to keep it straight and level, looks like he was dancing on the rudder pedals too.

 

[Tom Clayton]

You see that a lot in airliner videos too. They have so much mass that it takes a lot of time for smaller control inputs to move the plane. On approach, they need to the plane to move "now," so it takes more input to get the plane to respond quicker.

 

[Snuffy]

Was that controller even hooked up to the plane?

 

[Bomber_12th]

Having seen numerous videos like that one over the years, of course mostly from inside the cockpit of 'FIFI', I've known to expect to see that amount of control inputs during approach and landing in the B-29, so it's crazy to me to see so many comments to that video, from unknowing folks on Facebook, who are convinced in their minds that it is either a flight sim video, that the pilot lacks proper skill/is over-controlling the ailerons, or that something is wrong with the aircraft.

On a somewhat related note, this video shows a bit of the yoke inputs while flaring a B-24 for landing (4:59), with its heavy elevators: