ORIGINAL: Steve Steinbring
Joe,
I was one of those military pilots for 18 years. The use of rudder in a turn depends a great deal on the type of aircraft flown. If the airplane is a swept wing jet no rudder is generally used except on takeoff, landing, and aerial combat maneuvers. Flying an airplane like a C-130 rudder is certainly used to coordinate the turns. It all depends.
Sorry, I was just watching a video of some big old prop war birds, some twin engines, which is what I was thinking about. Hadn't thought what it would be like to fly a jet
