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Old 4th November 2004 | 07:41
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Stick Flying
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FlyingMoggy2,

Rubbish mate. VR-HDB is absolutely correct with their concerns about the inaccuracies with the book. I too had similar concerns about the facts. I merely used the book in order to prepare a well-worded reply for the concepts which I knew too be correct.

For a start, Dutch roll has absolutely nothing to do with a stalled wing. A stalled wing will in fact continue to roll and will not in fact lead to the oscilliatory roll (yaw) tendancies. It is more the relationship between the lag between roll and yaw. The initial yaw (so why is it called dutch roll then :-).....) causes a roll which then causes adverse yaw which causes roll in the opposite direction which again causes adverse yaw......and so on.

A crosswind from the left will hinder the recovery of a No1 eng failure (in conventinal aircraft).

There are more non-truths in the book but I didn't document them so Truckmasters is correct, get Handling the big jets and enough medication to be able to get through the book with sanity intact.

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