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Old 20th Feb 2004, 06:14
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Hand Solo
 
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Our company manuals say side stick inputs are permitted during the take off roll, but only up to a deflection equivalent to half the cross on the PFD, with no roll input at rotation. This is a lovely idea apart from the fact that it doesn't work in reality and results in immediate lifting of the upwind wing as the wheels leave the ground before normal law has blended in. A more realistic procedure is to maintain a very slight into wind roll command (about an eighth to a quarter of the cross width max) on rotation then kind of pull and roll a bit, up to a max of half the cross width before centering the stick as your reach the target pitch attitude. The cross itself travels in a banana shape on the PFD. Sounds complicated but its actually very easy to fly accurately, prevents a wing lifting after take off and doesn't deploy the spoilers.
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