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Old 12-19-2007 | 08:04 AM
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Default RE: Is Right Thrust Really Needed For 3D

FLYMIKE,

A good pilot is going to see/feel that torque and automatically compensate for it and in some cases not knowing he/she is doing it. Since I started helping new IMAC pilots setup planes and these pilots are good 3D pilots, I find a lot of planes needing right thrust and the people flying them not even realizing they had a problem until we made changes and then they realize it's way better.

Unless you are flying a very lightly loaded overpowered plane, then the amount of roll you will notice is not much in level flight.

Here is one thing to throw a big loop into all of the need for right thrust

Ok you are competely stalled hanging from the prop and the plane is standing right there not moving and you are getting P-factor over the rudder, how do you get it to torque roll, one way is to blip the throttle and guess what she starts rolling left, so all this talk about right thrust causing a roll to the right just went out the window because the plane rolled left and you added right aileron to stop it.