Adui
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From: Dayton,
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OK, Im going to ask a bit of advice on these. I've been doing them for a while now, Seems like anytime there is any wind at all its a cross wind!
Sometimes I get it all right and have a scale looking takeoff, even with a 5-8mph crosswind.
Then there is times like Sunday.. Lets just say its a darn good thing that my OS .46FX runs well..
I Taxied out, then slowly throttled up heading down the runway. She pulled one way, (my nose gear is not so good from a few too many hard landings) I over corrected. No big I figure, she's at air speed now, so as she hurtles diagonally across the runway I pull up a bit more than normal, but not too much or so I thought. Just as she rolls out another big gust hits her. (Weather report said we had steady 8-10mph winds with gusts to 15)
She flips strait up, and pivots slightly so the belly is now facing directly across the runway toward the safe flying area of the field. So now my poor little Arrow Trainer is making a very good attempt at pure vertical as she climbs out going straight up, the wind pushing her backward toward the no fly side of the runway. I use a judicious amount of down elevator to try pitching her forward into a more acceptable climb AND getting her to stop coming the wrong way. Not enough, still vertical, still being pushed slowly backward as she climbs. So, I take a chance, aileron to roll her around a bit, and then rudder to kick the tail out and force it to do something other than vertical climbing. It worked, I leveled the wings and had it flying full tilt strait out and away from the runway.
I am quite certain any spectators watching from the museum end of the field were in awe at the skill of the pilot that could make a plane maneuver like that, (Would have looked AWESOME to me had I not been the pilot) too bad it weren't skill but a bit of instinctive reaction and plain old dumb luck..
Now, I have done my best to remember the events and describe them accurately, including my control inputs and what I think I had in mind at the time, (It all happened pretty quickly so much of my inputs were instinct and reacting to what it was NOT doing as I tried to tell it to behave)
Educate me, what did I do right, and more important, what could I have done better? Aborting takeoff when it wiggled too much is a given, and in retrospect i think I should have aborted. What is there AFTER I committed to takeoff?
< Message edited by Adui -- 7/15/2008 6:51:37 AM >
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