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Old 10-16-2005 | 03:20 PM
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308jockey
 
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Default RE: improving rudder skills

Roll Tide Roll??? Are you kidding me??

The day I figured out rudder my buddy said there was a huge light bulb lighting up over my head. Seriously I figured it out all at once. Upright rudder shouldn't be much problem. You just have to learn to use it. Get used to controling the yaw axis of the aircraft. Inverted is another story. Don't think in terms of left or right but I'm upside down so left is really right.....simpy push the rudder stick the same way the nose is going when the plane is inverted. Don't THINK about it, simply do it. If the nose is going this way,push the stick this way. If it is going that way, push the rudder stick that way. It was sort of like riding a bike the first time. It just worked all of a sudden. If you don't find yourself using rudder very much, and most people don't, go get a pattern airplane and start practicing to make you aerobatics look perfect. After a while the rudder will be second nature.

War Damn Eagle.

Rick H.