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Old 2nd January 2009 | 07:58
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BOAC
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Framer - hopefully helping you back onto the centreline

IF you just stick on a fixed amount of aileron there is a good chance that your proposition will be true, but negligible. If you use aileron purely to control any wing-lift tendency then not, since the 'effective' weight on the wheel that side will be pretty much unchanged.

To diverge briefly from the topic (again), I have, I think, been fortunate all my flying career in being able to sense minute changes in acceleration and attitude (which has always made the artificial simulator 'motion' a problem for me) and as such have always been in the 'use aileron as and when needed' group (ie when I 'sense' the wing wanting to lift) during a x-wind takeoff in all the a/c I have flown. I also fully endorse the advice above to follow the manufacturers' guidelines rather than individual whims. In my time in aviation I have never seen a 'formal' suggestion to put on a fixed amount of aileron - it has, however, been 'suggested' by various training pilots, and I have watched many co-pilots (and a few Captains) do it. I suppose that for those of us who are 'blind' to the feel of an aircraft and cannot sense the lady wanting to do x. y or z, then some sort of robotic formula for setting into-wind aileron is better than rolling onto a wing-tip or engine pod.

It is always interesting to hear and think about others' techniques, but vital not to assume that because they appear to be 'experienced' they are the ones to follow.
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