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Old 14th Aug 2018, 21:22
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Originally Posted by Murexway
I might buy "likely would have", but "would have"?
Yeah, "would have". That close to the ground there simply isn't enough time or space to figure out why the airplane is rolling uncontrollably despite your aileron inputs. If there was a way to initiate this at altitude, perhaps some good pilots could figure it out and overcome a lifetime of practice and control roll with "backward" inputs. 10 ft off the runway? Not a chance. Your wing is in the ground before you have time to think anything other than " whoa! I'm really rolling left, I need more right aileron. "

Regardless, we have ample video of the takeoff it took off without a wobble in roll. Whatever the cause of the raised aileron in the video, it wasn't from them being rigged backward in Mx.
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