Earlier, (Mark Grubb) wrote:

...I tested this mode in a -20C
by "locking" the pitch at the
stick with tape (that would
break should I need it to)...

Um, I believe that they're not the same modes. The one is called
"stick-fixed stability" and the other is called "stick-free
stability."

My HP-18, for example, seems to have plenty of the first, and very
little of the second. In the spring I'm going to try building cambered
ruddervators to improve the situation.

Thanks, and best regards to all

Bob K.
http://www.hpaircraft.com