Originally Posted by
Heebicka
are you referring to AA 587 flight? excessive use of rudder when dealing turbulences?
never heard about this practice in small planes.
In a little aeroplane use of large rudder inputs to solve large sideslip values isn't necessarily regular, BUT it won't break the aeroplane. It will a big aeroplane - as distressingly proven there.
It's an area where big aeroplane pilots who are used to throwing little aeroplanes around need to be more knowledgeable about the differences than the handling pilot, very unfortunately, was on that occasion. That's all.
G