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This was an excellent article. I’m an old timer and the aircraft I used to fly all had a fixed roll que. All my flying was without an autopilot and I didn’t realize how much I used the roll pointer to detect small bank angle changes. I was also in avionics design and we had simulators with air transport displays. I wasn’t told that all the air transport displays had sky pointers. When I first flew the simulator, it was “what’s going on here?” I would start to correct for a small bank angle only to make it worse. Flying the simulator with a sky pointer was much more difficult than expected. Subconsciously, I would slip back to reacting as if the sky pointer was a fixed pointer. Ingrained habits are difficult to break. Also , I liked the cross pointers better than Collin’s single que, but I was working for Sperry so that might explain it.