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Old 26th Feb 2014, 09:28
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mad_jock
 
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Andy the thing which is causing the wing drop is you annoying the aircraft.

This almost always is because your gripping the controls as if your throttling a chicken.

As others have said in a light aircraft there is absolutely no reason at all to have more than thumb and two fingers on the yoke. This will make you control the aircraft using only wrist force instead of using your powerful upper arm muscles. Now this isn't to say that some conditions won't require you to grab it by the neck and use everything you have got. But that is in extreme conditions.

As a famous steerman pilot Brendan in the UK says make love to the sky don't shag it.

Shaggy obviously air flow because that's what makes the skirts lift and fairies stand upright on the wing, why would they lean when they were standing? They would only lean if you were going sideways which you would then apply rudder so the fairies on the tail would pull the plane into flying straight and then they would be able to stand upright again.

Mate it was as enlightening to me with the logic as it is to you. Most of it driven by her. And the logical jumps were worthy of an engineer work things out from first principles. Just unfortunately the first principles she was working from were complete bollocks.
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