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Old 24th July 2010 | 11:20
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Romeo E.T.
 
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Well - pitch&power is everything!
250kts - 3° Pitch 63% N1 is the initial setup

Then start your roll, when passing 30° bank, increase power by 5% to 68% and use the pitch-up moment of power increase to reach 4.5° pitch attitude.

Check that you have 0 vertical speed at that configuration (dont know the targets of your simulator, so you might need to change those values a little bit). When you found the pitch for 0 vertical speed:

NAIL IT THERE! That is the most important part. Pitch stays, correct airspeed with SMALL power changes so you have no influence on pitch.

On rollout passing 30° bank reduce power to 63%, nose will drop back to 3° pitch and you are fine.

To sum up:
1. Stabilize at 250
2. Roll in, passing 30° increase power by 5%, pitch according to 0 V/S
3. KEEP YOUR PITCH, CONTROL SPEED WITH POWER, DON'T TRIM
4. On roll-out passing 30° reduce power back to initial value for straight and level flight at 250, nose will drop by itself with power reduction



Best wishes for your training
nice summary

when I taught basic IF scanning in light aircraft many years ago I told my students to use the "turning point/reversal" of the VSI to really nail the altimeter...i.e. as the VSI starts a trend upwards or downwards, immediately make a "CHANGE-CHECK-HOLD" pitch adjustment on the AH of a degree or two to stop its upwards or downwards trend, to the point where it stops its motion and just starts to reverse its tendancy...HOLD...RE-ADJUST

DON'T CHASE THE "0" Ft/Min point, but stop the trend immediately so that it just starts a reverse motion of its deviation.

to get back to the topic and help required, and to stop all the "bickering"

with over 7000hrs on B737's I personally still "patter" myself quietly when in the sim doing steep turns....and it works for me...the altimeter needle remains "super-glued".
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