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Old 28th Mar 2024, 20:21
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BraceBrace
 
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The answer without calculations: it is an effect of highly damped vibrations. If you want to know exact numbers, you would have to apply the theory behind highly damped vibrations, and that theory scared so much the bezjeezes out of me, they were the first papers to hit the bin once I graduated +25 years ago and I decided I wanted to be a pilot.

In the world of "mainstream" pilots, gyroscopic effect is "an explanation" that avoids you have to face reality because that reality is too complex to grasp for many people. If people cannot accept that, I can assure you there are plenty of other "pilot theories" that don't survive any self-respecting bachelor/master in aerodynamics. It's fine. It's not the goal of your/my job. Just keep it simple. Simple keeps the flightdeck alive.

As a pilot you are trained to be an operator, not a designer.

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