ORIGINAL: 91zulu
ORIGINAL: sensei
ORIGINAL: speedracerntrixie
Al I'm not understanding how you are coming to the conclusion that if I'm wings level and holding rudder that I have to be turning. The rudder is simply used to hold position relitive to the runway. This is the same tecnique that is used to keep box depth when flying IMAC or pattern. Imagine flying a constant line 150 ft beyond the runway but you have 10 knots of wind in your face. How would you keep the airplane from drifting in towards you?
The only way I know of is to kick that rudder into the wind and carry that wing until it's time to straighten up and set it on the mains.
Bob
Rudder into the wind or aileron into the wind? I never heard when correcting for wind drift you push the rudder into the wind and aileron away to hold heading. Its aileron into the wind and rudder to hold heading. You want the low wing on the side which the wind is coming from. Don`t believe me there is a good show called Flying Wild Alaska. There are lots of footage of cross wind landings in
C-207s C-208s C206s and others at cross winds in excess of 40+ knots. Go down load it from one of the torrent sites ( Extra Torrent ) and then spend a day looking at some highly skilled pilots, then come back and tell me if you see any of them holding rudder into the wind. But you have to look at the show first before you start arguing this point.
Also if the rudder is NOT used for steering then all of you that is saying that go take your tail dragger out to the field place it at the end of the runway and take off with the rudder disconnected and use the aileron to hold the nose on the center line. And then post the video to prove that the rudder was not connected.
I grew up in a family owning 4 full scale airplanes, 3 aerobatic homebuilt airplanes and 1 Wichita spam can, so I have spent my fair share of time flying and even barn storming in full scale airplanes, with that said I will tell you that comparing a full scales flight characteristics, especially heavy's to one of the R/C models in my videos is like comparing the generated inertia of a 50 ft' drop between a watermelon and peanut on impact. Did you not pay any attention to what I was doing on landings and flat circles in the videos?
Bob