Nickodell
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Funny thing, you use rudder in primary flying training, and also in light planes all the time, to coordinate turns, but airliners and large military planes virtually never touch the rudder pedals except in extraordinary situations. Some of the Victor pilots I flew with used to rib us who flew the Chippies as "stick and rudder types." I often used to wonder if one of these guys, or a 10,000-hour airliner pilot, might have lost the coordination if put into a Cessna 172.
46 years later and I can still hear the Flight Sergeant instructor yelling "Sloppy, very sloppy! Kick the ball" - i.e. apply rudder pedal on the side where the turn & bank indicator ball had moved to, to bring it back to the center and correct a skid or slip. What do they use in today's Glass Cockpits, in place of the T & B?
I regret never having taken aerobatic lessons. It's a whole different world. However, in the UK, a bank more than 60 degrees was defined as aerobatics, and illegal except in certified fully aerobatic aircraft, and then only in controlled situations, like air shows. Is the law the same in the US, Rick?
46 years later and I can still hear the Flight Sergeant instructor yelling "Sloppy, very sloppy! Kick the ball" - i.e. apply rudder pedal on the side where the turn & bank indicator ball had moved to, to bring it back to the center and correct a skid or slip. What do they use in today's Glass Cockpits, in place of the T & B?
I regret never having taken aerobatic lessons. It's a whole different world. However, in the UK, a bank more than 60 degrees was defined as aerobatics, and illegal except in certified fully aerobatic aircraft, and then only in controlled situations, like air shows. Is the law the same in the US, Rick?