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Old 10-24-2009 | 05:12 PM
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Default RE: Corby Starlet


ORIGINAL: apalsson

ORIGINAL: TexasSkyPilot

Much appreciated!

Jimbo

Coming toward you, rightside-up or upside-down, the low wing gets the stick. That's the LAW, and it never changes, EVER.
And at slow speeds (landing approach etc), it also gets the rudder !
Sez you! I just fly'em into the ground! LOL..... Oops, I meant ONTO the ground.....

No, seriously, that's a Law that I burn into my student's heads with a hot poker. Once they do that automatically, they can use the extra half-second for whatever other flight surfaces they need to attend to, such as...as you said, tweaking with the rudder. The sweet part of my little Law is that if the pilot tweaks the rudder to crab a little, and in the process causes a wingtip to drop a little, he or she will automatically adjust that without thinking. It helps students in many ways, but it has helped my pilots advance their skills very quickly, and landings especially.

Jimbo

Coming toward you, rightside-up or upside-down, the low wing gets the stick. That's the LAW, and it never changes, EVER.