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On Mar 30, 7:07 pm, wrote:
On Mar 30, 5:14 pm, "Ken S. Tucker" wrote: Every pilot must know when he's in a spiral dive and how to correct it. Hard input will shatter the a/c, especially if IAS is near red line, which happens quickly, so be gentle. In my experience, gentle application of elevator with reverse aileron is ok. However, jerking the elevator can snug the turn and exceed the g-rating, specially if the airlerons are used inappropriately. I'd like to hear an expert opinion. Ken The private pilot student is taught to recognize the spiral, cut the power, level the wings, and ease out of the dive. "level and ***ease*** out". The pilot should yell out "spiral dive" as fast as he he recognizes that and that then institutes the cool recovery procedure, that differs from a spin stall. Is that right? I'm wondering about rudder application differences. In that exact order. Anything less is cause for failure of the exercise on the flight test. It's the failure to recognize the spiral that often gets the VFR-only pilot after he gets into IMC. Flight is coordinated and he doesn't feel anything. He isn't trained to trust, yet cross-check, all the instruments. He trusts his sense of balance, which tells him big lies when his eyes have nothing to look at outside. I concur. The pilot reported his Artificial Horizon Indicator (from what I've read) was to him faulty. Yeah, a faulty AH can certainly **** up a pilot on instruments, though the fella was flying in daytime. Possibly, he was clouded, (not VFR). Some slippery airplanes will pull up hard on their own when the wings are levelled. The stability of the aircraft causes the nose to rise when airspeed rises, and so, if the speed is high enough, when the turn is stopped by levelling the wings the nose will come up on its own, sometimes hard enough to cause structural damage or failure. Ok. Many of these slippery sorts will experience failure of the horizontal stabilizer first. The airplane then flops over onto its back and the wings fail downward due to the negative G loading. The 210 and Bonanza were famous for that sort of thing. Dan Thank you Dan, that's an unpleasant Roger. Ken |
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On Mar 31, 5:03*pm, "Ken S. Tucker" wrote:
"level and ***ease*** out". The pilot should yell out "spiral dive" as fast as he he recognizes that and that then institutes the cool recovery procedure, that differs from a spin stall. Is that right? Only if your mommy is listening to you playing flight sim. Cheers |
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On Mar 31, 12:03 am, "Ken S. Tucker" wrote:
"level and ***ease*** out". The pilot should yell out "spiral dive" as fast as he he recognizes that and that then institutes the cool recovery procedure, that differs from a spin stall. A spin is a stalled condition of flight. How did you now know that? Dan Mc |
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