Leading Turns With Rudder

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:52:43 -0700, Darryl Ramm wrote:

On Jul 22, 6:55*am, Mike the Strike wrote:
Those are the only gliders where I think its needed.

Never flown a Jantar-1?

Horribly under-ruddered, as I recall, needing lots of boot to
coordinate a turn and preferring it applied a tad before aileron.

Mike

ASH-25, and I'd assume a Nimbus, etc. (yes not much training done in
those).

The only one of those I've handled was a Nimbus 3, which seemed to
handle OK apart from the rudder forces and the (to me anyway) large
amounts of inertia about all three axes. Mind you, that was on a really
difficult day - little drift but solid overcast at 3000 ft and only wide
diameter, weak lift under it, so anything other than gentle turns would
have lost more than they gained. We stayed up 3 hours to get some value
from the tow and never got higher than 2800 ft or more than 10 miles from
home.


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