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Dudley Henriques wrote in
: Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Dudley Henriques wrote in : Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Dudley Henriques wrote in : ManhattanMan wrote: Dudley Henriques wrote: gatt wrote: "Dudley Henriques" wrote in message news:f92dnR- I'll bet the Australians use something even better than either of us :-)) Their conveyor belts go in the opposite direction. -c aiee, I need a vacation. ..and their airplanes fly upside down too :-)) They'd say you're entitled to your point of view.... ![]() It IS amazing when one stops to actually visualize it; the round globe; the other side of it; and flying in the same sky upside down relative to each other but right side up relative to the individual localities. It's of course obvious to us in the macro sense, but when you REALLY get down to the micro visualization of it all................ :-)))) Bucky Fuller amy have said it best when he said that up and down are completely innacurate. The correct terms for a pilot should be in and out.. I think he was talking about flying, anyway.. Bertie You run into this when you start explaining left and right vs inside and top or outside rudder when dealing with slow rolls :-) Yes, I've been doing that with one of my current students in anticipation of the arrival of the airplane, Or rather, he's been reading a lot and asking me questions about how you know which way to twist the controls inverted. I just told him it's easier to see when your head is upside down! For inverted flight, you push the stick as normal for the direction of roll without concerning yourself with L/R labels. and the rudder just goes in the dirction you want the nose to go. Simple. For rolls, it's the same with the addition of top/bottom rudder for the knife edge transition.. Sound reasonable? Bertie Sounds good. Perspective in aerobatics inverted can be REAL confusing to newbies. The one that I always found fascinating is the different perspective in inverted spins as seen from the pilot's and ground witness perspective. To the pilot the inverted spin will be left, but when seen from the ground, the inverted spin appears to be to the right :-)) This drove the judges nuts on the international aerobatic competition circuit until a pilot being judged for an inverted spin one way realized he has spun the other way and corrected the judge :-)) I haven't done an awful lot of those, but I always determined them to be in the direction I'd depressed the pedal. Not that it mattered! It was only a thrill ride for me anyway. I never used them in competition as I only competed in sportsman. Bertie |
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