On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 23:38:17 -0800, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:

On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 7:10:55 PM UTC-8, Bruce Hoult wrote:

It's good to have as many techniques in your arsenal as possible.

Even NASA does (did) S-turns in the circuit.


Gosh, I would hesitate to call the roll reversals "S-turns"

Read below article, very interesting.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson...in_Wings-ch4d-
pgs226-241.pdf

Thanks for posting that. However, whether you consider those S-turns or
not, they were certainly not in the circuit (the shuttle flew straight-in
patterns IIRC), rather they were en route to destination.

BTW, somewhere I have an ancient shuttle landing simulator (for Win 95)
that was interesting to experiment with. Does anybody know if a Linux
version is available? There should be a port - NASA's original version
ran on a Unix-based laptop that got sat on the Shuttle glare shield
during command pilot training. The PC sim started you at 350kts and
55,000ft and no matter what you did with it, you were on the ground after
2.5 - 3 minutes.


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