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Old 31st Oct 2002, 20:50
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cwatters
 
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As I understand things it's now not deemed safe to apply full rudder first one way and then the other... and that this is because the first application yaws the plane so that forces on the fin/rudder are already high when the rudder is reversed.

So what should you do if the initial yaw is caused by sever turbulence? Wouldn't you be tempted to apply full oposite rudder to correct it? This would seem to produce roughly the same forces on the rudder/fin as above.
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