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Old 30th Aug 2013, 12:20
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CaptainDrCook
 
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At this point it felt like a gust of wind picked up the right wing and rolled me hard to the left. I over-corrected, and ended up in a steep bank to the right now
How did you correct the right wing rising? With aileron, or with rudder input?

I've got 160 hours - nearly all in Warriors, and I still sometimes forget to use rudder to control small gusts on approach. I think it's partially because you don't really need rudder input in Warriors most of the time... I have to actively work at using my feet.

Once I finally learnt to counteract bumps with the rudder rather than ailerons, I felt a lot safer!

Even in a recent skills test, we spent about ten minutes re-training me to use the rudder more (after passing all the hard stuff first).
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