PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - How do you teach turning?
View Single Post
Old 2nd November 2009 | 00:33
  #36 (permalink)  
Chuck Ellsworth
 
Joined: Oct 2001
Posts: 2,517
Likes: 0
From: Vancouver Island
With nothing better to do at the moment I thought I would share some of the patter we were taught in the fifties for attitudes and movements.

To demonstrate how to produce desirable yaw we did it this way and the patter was as follows.

From straight and level flight we banked the airplane to approximately 30 degrees of bank and checked the bank angle with aileron and neutral rudder, as the bank angle stopped we had the student note that the nose moved toward the down wing, that movement they saw was called yaw and in that instance was produced by aileron.

Then back to wings level in level flight and once again we demonstrated yaw by rolling the airplane into a 30 degree bank and checking the bank angle but this time we used opposite rudder to stop the yaw and explained that rudder can prevent yaw.

Back to straight and level flight and have the student pick out an object ahead of the airplane and this time we demonstrated that the rudder can not only prevent yaw but it can also produce yaw.

Holding the wings level with aileron we then demonstrated how the rudder will yaw the airplane back and fourth..therefore rudder will both produce and prevent yaw.

I find that a great percentage of pilots really do not fully understand the effects of controls with regard to attitudes and movements..especially rudder.
Chuck Ellsworth is offline  
Reply