Techniques for Making Turns in an Airplane

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Techniques for Making Turns in an Airplane
Hi, I'm Dave Pressy with St Charles Flying Service on behalf of Expert Village. There is uncoordinated. There is a coordinated turn. Let me show you a slip. And then a skidding turn. This will be a skid on the other side. This is too much rudder in a turn, where the ball goes outside of the turn. And a slip is when there's not enough. A slip is going to be when there's the opposite way. It's opposite the turn. "Skidding" is skidding inside of the turn so the nose is pointing too far into the turn, and "slipping" when that nose is outside of the turn. And I'm turning - if you look out the window, I'm turning, but the nose is to the outside. I can actually stop the turn with that. That's a slip. Then a skid of a turn, the nose is going to be too far into the turn. There's too much rudder. But what it should look like, out the window, it looks like this. We can do what's called "adverse yaw." If you focus right on the nose, go to turn, if I turn rather sharply, the nose will swing out to the opposite side. See that? Then it pitches up. If I go back the other way, if I go to turn right with no rudder, the nose wants to go off this way. It's not very pronounced. I think we're going to make it a little more pronounced. Are you ready? Yup. To compensate for that, we use rudder on the same side. So same rudder, same aileron, the nose is going in the direction of the turn from the beginning. Much more streamlined, much more efficient, you get more performance out of the airplane that way.

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Expert: Dave Pressy has been a flight instructor in the St. Louis Area for over four years, and a pilot for more than seven years. He has accumulated nearly 1200 hours of flight time. Read More