Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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White
NcDivitt
White
McDivitt
we were supposed to be at a certain attitude we
weren't approaching it, I 'd start pulsing a little
harder.
You'd hear a series of about five quick pulses.
It was a very economical control mode.
The ma.ne·,..;ver controller worked the way it was
supposed to.
What about the deadband? Did you think the dead­
bands and breakouts were all satisfactory?
Yes, just like the one we used in the simulator.
You've got a lot of slop in it when you're making
gross maneuvers because you're not fixing your
elbow and manipulating around tmt point. You're
fixing your shoulder and your whole arm, and
it's just like shoveling coal--you've got about
that much finesse to it .
I don't think there's
much you can say about it. The controls weren't
too gross and they weren't too minor.
The whole
thing was adequate.
We did have an inflight mal­
function, or irregularity.
We were in Horizon
Scanner Mode one time and Fd wanted to yaw around.
He started to yaw and the thing rolled.
The
Horizon Scanner Mode fired the roll thrusters to
level it back off-­