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This thread !! Jeez.
Old horseman's adage; Keep one one leg on each side and your mind in the middle.
Old pilot's adage ; keep one leg on each side and your ball in the middle.
How, in all the hells can even a pre solo student not know this?.
Effect of controls, further effect of controls, interrelationship between Roll, Yaw, a balanced turn and the pure joy of just one in a 100 turns, getting it all nearly right in any conditions. Better than Golf any day!!.
Old pilot's adage ; keep one leg on each side and your ball in the middle.
How, in all the hells can even a pre solo student not know this?.
Effect of controls, further effect of controls, interrelationship between Roll, Yaw, a balanced turn and the pure joy of just one in a 100 turns, getting it all nearly right in any conditions. Better than Golf any day!!.
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Turnng up to 200 plus times per day at low level, ball in the middle is essential. Overcorrection near to the stall will induce it very quickly. Eventually you feel out of place flying lopsided and it becomes instinctive, great ag video by Wayne Hanley called Turn Smart if you can chase or google it up.
Well worth a look.
Regards M.
Well worth a look.
Regards M.
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You guys worry way too much.
Why would you want to fly any aircraft so defective that it requires manipulation of the rearward appendage? Just tell the tail to get in line like a good little aerodynamic surface, and stop bothering the poor old pilot who has enough to do programming the GPS.
If there's a crosswind, just find another airport with a runway into wind.
Those pedals do make good footrests and that's all you should use them for. Yes, sometimes that antique ball thing does try to escape it's tube, but that doesn't matter as the autopilot automatically compensates. Sometimes it might seem that the aircraft is trying to lean over while the autopilot is doing this compensation, but that's probably just the passengers sitting in the wrong places.
And as for landing, the correct technique is to aim at the ground until you get really scared, and then pull back really hard while chopping the throttle. This leaves only a split second for the aircraft to attempt to trick you before impact. The less time an aircraft has to trick you, the better. They are wily beasts...
Sure, sometimes this technique results in some bending or distortion of unimportant bits of airframe, but that's OK as I like my engine pointing up a bit, makes takeoffs quicker. I normally just weld in a few bits of angle iron to prevent bending, ok sure sometimes you need to cut some holes in the cowlings to leave space for the bits I couldn't be bothered cutting off, but that just aids engine cooling.
Someone once told me that it requires finesse to fly these aircraft. They are probably right, but I have been trying to buy a can of finesse for ages and it's really hard to find. I'm sure if I just spread a bit over the wings my flying would improve... hey does anyone have any spare..? Save me having to use my expensive surfboard wax on them...
Right, I'm off to weld up the hinges on that pesky rudder thingy...
Why would you want to fly any aircraft so defective that it requires manipulation of the rearward appendage? Just tell the tail to get in line like a good little aerodynamic surface, and stop bothering the poor old pilot who has enough to do programming the GPS.
If there's a crosswind, just find another airport with a runway into wind.
Those pedals do make good footrests and that's all you should use them for. Yes, sometimes that antique ball thing does try to escape it's tube, but that doesn't matter as the autopilot automatically compensates. Sometimes it might seem that the aircraft is trying to lean over while the autopilot is doing this compensation, but that's probably just the passengers sitting in the wrong places.
And as for landing, the correct technique is to aim at the ground until you get really scared, and then pull back really hard while chopping the throttle. This leaves only a split second for the aircraft to attempt to trick you before impact. The less time an aircraft has to trick you, the better. They are wily beasts...
Sure, sometimes this technique results in some bending or distortion of unimportant bits of airframe, but that's OK as I like my engine pointing up a bit, makes takeoffs quicker. I normally just weld in a few bits of angle iron to prevent bending, ok sure sometimes you need to cut some holes in the cowlings to leave space for the bits I couldn't be bothered cutting off, but that just aids engine cooling.
Someone once told me that it requires finesse to fly these aircraft. They are probably right, but I have been trying to buy a can of finesse for ages and it's really hard to find. I'm sure if I just spread a bit over the wings my flying would improve... hey does anyone have any spare..? Save me having to use my expensive surfboard wax on them...
Right, I'm off to weld up the hinges on that pesky rudder thingy...
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There was a poem
About how the private pilot could leap small puddles and only get one boot wet, and CPL could manage small streams and the occasional bridge and SCPL (I know) could leap small buildings etc.etc, but the AG pilot was God.
I enjoyed it very much, can anyone oblige with a version (lost mine, long boring story) but I'd like to hear/see it again. Just for fun.
I enjoyed it very much, can anyone oblige with a version (lost mine, long boring story) but I'd like to hear/see it again. Just for fun.
