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Old 6th Sep 2013, 21:45
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Chris Scott
 
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Quote from JammedStab:
"Upgoing right wing means the right side of your artificial horizon line is going down. It is easy to mix up and make the wrong input."

True. Further to my earlier post about recovery on the VC10, my previous (older) types had had A/Hs on which the bank indicator pointer was at the bottom of the instrument, whereas the VC10's followed the later practice of incorporating a skid/slip bubble-indicator at the bottom, displacing the bank indicator to the top. That is less intuitive, IMO, and can create confusion. It could easily have led me to apply aileron/roll-spoiler in the wrong direction. Not a good idea... Has anyone else ever had that problem?
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