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Old 09-01-2013 | 12:48 PM
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I think gyro is almost always present, just sometimes to a small degree. If the prop has any down/right thrust but the plane is flying straight and level, a force is being applied to the spinning disc and thus resulting in a gyro force. Obviously the forces are greater during pushes and pulls, or yaw. It is very difficult for anything to be perfectly aligned, so I imagine the gyro forces are there.