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Old July 8th 15, 05:11 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Bob Kuykendall
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Default Playing around with the pitch phugoid

On Sunday, July 5, 2015 at 10:50:39 PM UTC-7, wrote:
You've blundered into the white room. You have primitive gyro guidance in the form of a turn rate indicator and so you are keeping the wings level, sort of. You are trimmed for 55 and the airspeed has just risen (alarmingly rapidly) to 85 and then temporaily plateaued there, staying constant for a couple of seconds. Answer quick: what do you do with the stick?

S


Flaps 90, pitch to hold 55 kts. Expect a 45-degree deck angle on emergence.