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Old February 12th 07, 07:36 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.student
Roger[_4_]
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Default Visual coordination of turns revisited

On 10 Feb 2007 04:17:29 -0800, "Tony" wrote:

I think the expression as to what would follow is "augered in".
There's nothing like 1.4 g's in aa climbing turn, followed by an
abrupt leveling off to make a novice's perception of coordinated
flight amusing.


Years ago I took my cousin for a ride. Dan was an adventerous sort.
After a bit of flying he wanted to see a steep turn. When I was a
student I learned steep turns at 60 degrees of bank and 2 Gs. I still
do them that way.

Dan thought that was fun so we did a 720 one way followed by
immediately rolling into a 720 the other way. He said it felt a bit
strange on the first 720 but it didn't bother him. He said he was
really doing good until we headed the other direction. At that point
he said he lost all connection with up, down, right, left, IOW he was
completely disoriented. It didn't bother him and he rather enjoyed it.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
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