Mr Bernoulli thank you for those links. I am sorry I missed such a recent discussion of the issue. I certainly do not wish to start another thread that covers the same ground.
Hudson Bay. Sorry. What are you saying "Correct!" to? Are you saying that you should put in whatever control wheel imput you require to keep the wings level during the ground roll prior to rotation?
" Do as your company SOP's state. Don't think you know any better."
The problem is, our company procedures do say to limit the aileron to 1 or 2 units and yes we have had a recent spate of pod scrapes and tail scrapes!
I have seen a post on another thead that quotes the B777 manual stating to put in as much aileron as you need, or perhaps more precisly it doen't mention limiting the aileron input at all. Yet on other Boeing type manuals it does say to limit aileron input.
Anyway it is hard to argue with "Do as the manual says". I would appreciate if someone could QUANTIFY the performance penalty. Thank you.
Last edited by Blip; 12th December 2006 at 09:17.
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