"Bob Moore" wrote in message . 122...
"Morgans" wrote

Did you have a radar altimeter, or any other means of fine
tuning your altitude, other than barometric altimeter?

YES. And in the P-3 Orion, we had a "control wheel steering"
mode for the autopilot that would allow us to lock the altitude
hold function to the radar altimeter and just "drive" the ailerons
with the control wheel. Wherever you put the control wheel, the
autopilot kept it there. Controlwheel steering also worked for the
elevator axis if the altitude hold function was not engaged.

Bob


....and that is what put that L1011 into the swamp down in Florida way back when. They bumped the yoke which put the
plane in a very gradual descent ~100 FPM while they were all looking at the landing gear light...
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Dan DeVillers
http://www.ameritech.net/users/ddevillers/start.html


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