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Old 15th Feb 2014, 22:55
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ShyTorque

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this is done by making a rate one turn which is indicated by your T+B but not on your AH (Yes, I know you can work it out but really that's the last thing you want to be doing).
But any aircraft can turn at rates other than Rate 1 and still safely do a 180!

During our RAF jet training we used to have to practice limited panel instrument recoveries from UPs, using the T&S after the AH had been toppled, as it is likely to do if you got the aircraft totally out of kilter, for example during aerobatics, or instrument failure and (very) slow scan....

The limitation of the instrument was that if you were pulling 'G' it greatly over-read. So you had to unload to 1G before using it. The advantage was that as it worked using a caged gyro it couldn't be totally toppled.

Speed (control),
G, (unload to 1 on the G meter)
Roll (opposite direction until the turn needle comes off the stop, then smartly centralise the ailerons),
Pull (stop the altimeter unwinding),
Repeat as necessary... Still rings a bell.
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