Bookworm:
I agree, but this an instructing forum and we are debating how best to explain the secondary EoC to a pilot - pilots are taught from day 1 to use the aircraft axes as their control reference frame. Within this frame a high rate of yaw has the aircraft rotating around its vertical/yaw axis, regardless of the angle of bank or pitch attitudes.
A fascinating factoid from the wikipaedia flight dynamics pages (referenced from the page you linked): roll rate leads to fin lift causing yaw in the same direction. This had not occurred to me before but is blindingly obvious once its been pointed out.
(edited to fix a typo)
HFD
Last edited by hugh flung_dung; 29th March 2007 at 17:41.