"Darrell" wrote in message
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" "Tarver Engineering" wrote in message
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That would be expected, but in newer airliners, the operator is not
really
supposed to even operate the rudder. That idea is of course only
filtering
down to pilots after the A-300 event at Rockaway.

Not so. The rudder is used to coordinate flight in modern airliners
as in
any airplane.

Sorry Darrel, but you are outdated.

Perhaps. But I am currently teaching flight simulator for the Boeing
Company which has produced some airliners. The use of rudders when
handflying aircraft is still taught. Not a lot of rudder. Just what is
necessary.

I say the simulator is where handflying should occur. As you are "teaching
flight simulator" (?) for Boeing, you should be aware of how AA's simulation
sylibus for the A-300 may have contributed to the Rockaway accident.

It just doesn't take nearly as much with a properly
functioning yaw damper.

Rudder is used to deliberately
un-coordinate the aircraft when taking off and landing with a
crosswind.

No, use of the rudder is explicity unsafe.

Only if you have "Splaps" extended. Whoops. Using a Tarver term again.
(or
was that Splats?)

In fact, using spoiler flaps, as opposed to spoilers as speed brakes only,
is the means through which the rudder is reduced in size for both the KC-135
and the B-52H. Current models of civilian two engine aircraft have been
designed away from that notion, due to engine out requirements. Keep in
mind that this is a military group, not bound by CFR14 legalese, Schmidt.