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Old 7th Sep 2013, 10:27
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Ray Joe Czech
 
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The only reason that normal techniques don't work on 332L ILSs is because the autopilot is a piece of sh1t.
It is the only aircraft I have ever flown where, when you lower the lever the nose comes up and the speed bleeds off. The converse happens and both helpfully occur over a three to five second period so the ab initio HP is forever behind the aircraft.
If you fly the 'normal' technique in a 225, no problem -- I bet you didn't have to teach ab initio pilots to fly the glide path on cyclic in that.
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