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Old 04-28-2008 | 12:40 PM
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Default RE: Rolling Circles without Rudders!

Well,

I am obviously doing them on a jet without rudder input! I was just impressed with myself that I was able to do rolling circles at all and when I found that I didn't need rudder input I was floored!

I had to share that tidbit. All the IMAC guys at my field said that I had to use rudder input to do rolling circles. I think you guys hit it on the head with the speed of the aircraft. Any of my jets are going much faster than any IMAC 40%'er out there in its rolling circle.

It is clear that a slow role (no matter how fast, even my 200 mph passes) needs rudder input to not loose altitude.[sm=thumbup.gif]

However, if I find that not to be true I'll post that here as well!

Raf