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Old 02-25-2014 | 05:46 AM
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Speed,

The idea that applying rudder make a plane yaw is not (just) something we read in a book or heard from an instructor. It's intro to flying 101. Every pilot should know this. Saying "show me a video" does not prove that it's wrong. Nobody disagrees with your claim that a pilot can counter a plane's tendency to drift with the wind. Can you show me something that tells pilots that they can do this without either crabbing or slipping (or, in a multi-engine plane, playing with thrust)? If it were true, you'd think it would have been published somewhere, wouldn't you?