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Attn Spam Can drivers: Need MS FlightSim reality check...
I was taught to fly with "control altitude with the throtle, and
airspeed with the elevator." It made sense to me as my instructor showed me how to do slow flight. We would get to a slow speed by pulling back on the yoke until we got our desired speed and then would set the throttle to whatever RPM was necessary to maintain our given altitude. Setting up for a landing is basically the same thing...throttle back (and if trim setting is not changed, altitude decreases at some rate), back on the yoke (or stick) to get desired airspeed and then adjust throttle for desired rate of descent (500 FPM seems pretty standard)... Scott Corben Junior Ace Well.... Perhaps some of the CFIs care to speak out... IIRC, the FAA was concerned with departure stall/spin accidents and also with approach and landing accidents. The reasoning went that both classes of accident would be drastically reduced if pilots remembered to stabilize their aircraft the recommended climb speed on departure and at the recommended approach speed for the final aproach. Of course, that also made powered approaches and BIG patterns popular. Peter |
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Point taken I was thinking piston type engine since the original
post mentioned "throttle"...now in my years of glider flying, I don't remember seeing a knob labeled throttle Scott T o d d P a t t i s t wrote: Scott wrote: If you don't bieleve it try to climb without power sometime. CFI is correct Gliders do it all the time! No we don't, we use power to climb, just like airplanes, we just don't use an internal combustion engine to produce the power, we use a thermonuclear fusion generator. |
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Well, I'm guilty of making postage size patterns I was taught to
keep 'er in close in case a piston decides to try and convert the engine into an EXTERNAL combustion engine! I've been asked by towers where I am when I call on downwind and I have to tell them I'm over the taxiway 'cause they're looking 3 miles out :O Scott Peter Dohm wrote: I was taught to fly with "control altitude with the throtle, and airspeed with the elevator." It made sense to me as my instructor showed me how to do slow flight. We would get to a slow speed by pulling back on the yoke until we got our desired speed and then would set the throttle to whatever RPM was necessary to maintain our given altitude. Setting up for a landing is basically the same thing...throttle back (and if trim setting is not changed, altitude decreases at some rate), back on the yoke (or stick) to get desired airspeed and then adjust throttle for desired rate of descent (500 FPM seems pretty standard)... Scott Corben Junior Ace Well.... Perhaps some of the CFIs care to speak out... IIRC, the FAA was concerned with departure stall/spin accidents and also with approach and landing accidents. The reasoning went that both classes of accident would be drastically reduced if pilots remembered to stabilize their aircraft the recommended climb speed on departure and at the recommended approach speed for the final aproach. Of course, that also made powered approaches and BIG patterns popular. Peter |
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"T o d d P a t t i s t" wrote in message ... "wright1902glider" wrote: If you hold a constant speed and pitch attitude, changing the throttle changes altitude. More specifically, changing throttle changes your rate of climb/sink, and there's a single throttle position where the engine is adding as much energy to the aircraft as it is losing from drag. If you open the throttle, the engine will produce more power and you'll gain altitude. If you close it, you will descend. Throttle controls thrust. Elevator controls pitch. Keep it simple................Karl "Curator" N185KG |
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karl gruber wrote: "T o d d P a t t i s t" wrote in message ... "wright1902glider" wrote: If you hold a constant speed and pitch attitude, changing the throttle changes altitude. More specifically, changing throttle changes your rate of climb/sink, and there's a single throttle position where the engine is adding as much energy to the aircraft as it is losing from drag. If you open the throttle, the engine will produce more power and you'll gain altitude. If you close it, you will descend. Throttle controls thrust. Elevator controls pitch. Keep it simple................Karl "Curator" N185KG Attitude + Power = Performance. You can't say that one control does only one thing. There's too much reductionism in flight training and it creates inept pilots. Dan |
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Awww for crying out loud! The guy asks a simple question, and you either
confuse him with excess detail, or act like it's a stupid question, just because YOU know the answer! Not very friendly! Just to answer the question directly: Your instructor is correct. Control altitude with throttle, and airspeed with pitch. It sounds backwards, but that's what they teach. If you were to take a Private Pilot ground school class tomorrow, they would have said that in so many words before the end of the first week. Of course, nothing is ever that easy in the real world, but you have to start somewhere. wrote in message ... wright1902glider spewed this unto the Network: If anyone out there will admit to driving a C-172, I have a question. In MS FlightSim 2003, Rod the VR flight instructor tells me that I should be controlling my altitude with the throtle, and my airspeed with the elevator? Does that make sense? Others have already answered this question. In Microsoftland, I've got to constantly play with the throtle to hold a consistant altitude. I don't recall ever seeing a pilot do that in any plane I've ever flown in, but I could be wrong. Opinions? Real pilots of aircraft that have elevator trim (such as the C-172) tend to use it. In fact, if Rod's VR instruction was anything like real flight instruction, he'd scold you for not "trimming out" the aircraft. You should be able to completely let go of the controls and have the aircraft stay at the same altitude. You should assign two buttons on your joystick to operate the elevator trim. In a real aircraft, the yoke will actually stay in the same position when the aircraft is "trimmed out" (hence the references you'll hear to "trimming away the pressure"), but in the simulator you'll have to settle for the nose staying where you want it when the joystick is centered. |
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Ron Webb wrote: Awww for crying out loud! The guy asks a simple question, and you either confuse him with excess detail, or act like it's a stupid question, just because YOU know the answer! Not very friendly! Just to answer the question directly: Your instructor is correct. Control altitude with throttle, and airspeed with pitch. It sounds backwards, but that's what they teach. Ah. So if I want to cruise faster, I leave the throttle alone and pitch downward. Dan |
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On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 04:48:32 -0900, "Ron Webb"
wrote: Awww for crying out loud! The guy asks a simple question, and you either confuse him with excess detail, or act like it's a stupid question, just because YOU know the answer! Not very friendly! Just to answer the question directly: Your instructor is correct. Control altitude with throttle, and airspeed with pitch. It sounds backwards, but that's what they teach. If you were to take a Private Pilot ground school class tomorrow, they would have said that in so many words before the end of the first week. At a pilot proficency course the instructor showd me that either way can work just as well. However even though it seems backwards the pitch for airspeed, power for altitude apparently makes teaching landings easier to start. Of course, nothing is ever that easy in the real world, but you have to start somewhere. Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com |
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