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Chuck Gould Chuck Gould is offline
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Default Pod Drive System

On Dec 19, 10:33�am, Sunk wrote:
The IPS is incredibly responsive, even at a good turn of speed.
Think
twice before yanking that joystick hard over at 25-30 knots. :-)

The book says its only good to 7 knots.


Actually, I should have said jogstick, not joystick, for the speed
reference. A jogstick coupled through an autopilot will bring the helm
from one extreme to the other almost immediately.