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Old October 12th 06, 06:10 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.student
Mxsmanic
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Default Autopilot fighting for control

Ron Natalie writes:

This leads to an incipient problem you can have in a private aircraft
as well. Without sufficient power, the autopilot trying to maintain
altitude can drive the aircraft into a stall. It was finally at the
onset of the prestall buffeting that the copilot started to try to
recover, unfortunately while you can overpower an autopilot easily,
overpowering a 15yo holding the other yoke is not as easy.


The 15yo was trying to steer the aircraft the wrong way?

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