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Old 27th Nov 2006, 07:12
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FlyingForFun

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2R,

I suggest you go back and read the original post. When you reduce power (with a conventional clockwise-rotating prop), the nose will yaw to the right, needing left rudder to straighten it. But Metar has observed the oposite - that he needs right rudder during the flare.

Giam's observation that the effect is more pronounced in a high power-to-weight ratio aircraft would probably support the p-factor theory, but I still question how p-factor can have so much effect at idle power. If you struggle to keep the nose inside the runway when you raise the nose at idle power, what's it like raising the nose to rotate at full power???

I like the idea of coriolis effect - if for no other reason that no one I know (me included) understands coriolis effect well enough to argue against it!!!

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