ORIGINAL: Gordon Mc
ORIGINAL: In the Haze
ORIGINAL: Gregdonaldson
Guys,buy yourself a ziroli DC-3,that puppy will teach you what rudders are made for.
Iv had the honour of doing a few hours on a full size L39 and the only time rudder is used is on take off,landing and taxi,that said however small inputs of rudder definetly make a smoother flight.
If rudders were only meant for taxi we would only have a steerable nose wheel.i was lucky when i started flying,all my training aircraft had so much adverse aileron yaw that rudder needed to be used,if not i would be fetching aircraft in the mielies every flight.
Whats mielies?[
] Is that something like a vuvuzela?
Mielies = maize. In this context, think of it as landing in a corn field.
AAAAhhh got you thanks.
So its like fetching an aircraft that has veered off the runway or not even made the runway, due to the non application of rudder throughout the approach phase, and now you have to watch out to not get bitten or attacked by snakes and pigs that frequent the maize (mielie) fields? Man I'd rather just use rudder.
