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Old 16th Jan 2014, 18:14
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Jack, you DO NOT use rudder for upset recoveries unless you have run out of aileron authority, have an aileron jam or need to yaw the nose down in a high nose, low speed recovery where you have already rolled the aircraft over past 60 deg AOB deliberately.

I did the Boeing Advanced Maneouver Programme some time around 2000 that was designed to teach recovery from rudder hard-overs. We ended the training with flap-40 approaches with full rudder deflection kicking in at 1500', and would recover with the rudder still jammed from a 135 deg AOB to climbing away with less than 1000' loss, and that was done for training purposes with the PF having to lower their head to be "momentarily disorientated" as to which way the aircraft had departed.

Any time you are going to use the rudder in flight, you do so gingerly and reluctantly, and only as a last resort. Your comments about stomping on the pedals or using full rudder as a procedure show a complete lack of understanding of swept wing flight, and your numerous references to TV programmes, which are often misleading and inaccurate, including ACI, suggests you are not a commercial pilot. To that end, I think you owe some of the other respondents on this thread an apology for being argumentative and dismissing their posts.
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