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Old 12-11-2002 | 08:52 PM
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Originally posted by OUTCAST

I am a full scale pilot with over 3,000 hours, 1000 in conventional gear craft... Torque is not one of the primary factors in the use of right rudder in aircraft... The amount of P-factor is proportional to the props ability to absorb the engines torque.... Gyroscopic procession has nothing at all to do with this discussion, it is the tendency for a gyroscope to drift opposite the direction of rotation over long periods of time...
Couple (maybe three) questions:

1) What's conventional gear got to do with it? ALL aircraft displayes left turning tendensies (right if you fly VW or speak Russian) for the same reasons.

2) It seems that the 3000 hours came over quite some period of time? If you go and read your PPL books again, P-factor might become clearer.

3) Gyroscopic procession should be in the same chapter.



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