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Old 11-21-2011 | 11:50 AM
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Default RE: Torque and P factor, why do we continually confuse them?

I think a well known poet once wrote " A rose by any other name ". I understand what your point is but if for decades the force that drags our models to the left when power is applied has been called " Torque " and the fix is to apply right thrust why over complicate the whole thing?


One thing that I simply can't fully understand as well is why people want to apply full scale theory and think it will 100% directly relate to our models. I't just dosent work that way. Sure Physics still apply in the same manner but when was the last time some real data was taken from an aircraft with our wing and power laoadings? These two things make it a whole different ball game.

Take any serious Pattern or IMAC pilot and I promise you they are doing things to get their airplanes to trim out correctly that disproves some of what is said here. That dosent make any of it wrong, just that it's applied in a different senario.