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Old 30th May 2009, 09:32
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ChristiaanJ
 
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NSEU,
I think you're confusing the issue...

The centreline is on your 'right'.

In normal flight, A) is what you see, and your starboard wing is pointing towards the centreline.
You now bank by dropping your starboard wing to fly towards the centreline.

In inverted flight, A) is still what you see, since both your head and the instrument are upside down.
But with your port wing now pointing towards the centreline, you drop your port wing to bank and fly towards the centreline.

Never having tried it myself, I now take BizJetJock's and Bullethead's words for it, that you do this automatically, i.e., the instrument tells you to bank to the right, and even if you're upside down, your brain tells you that "right" is relative to the ground, so you now drop your port wing to bank to the right and hence curve your flightpath to the right relative to the ground.

NSEU, I would say IMHO your fig. B) confuses the issue, because a) you've drawn it upside down, whereas the pilot still sees it "right side up", and because b) the instrument indicates you're on the righthand side of the centreline, contrary to your "runway and plane" view.

CJ
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