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Jim Alsip's regular newsletters are always very interesting so take a look at his latest one:
"Greetings my flying friends
Whether a pilot develops good stick and rudder skills during basic pilot training or seeks to correct deteriorated skills, good habits based upon fundamentals always apply. In this series titled How to Become a Great Stick, I present ten great habits that promote good stick and rudder skill.
In this Hangar Talk and in no particular order, #5 on my list is:
Unload the elevator before you roll. If I presented my ten top habits in order of importance, this is number one.
Consider the following situations:
1. You are rolling out of a base to final turn on approach to landing.
2. You are rolling out of a steep turn (60 degree bank) on heading.
3. Your airplane has been upset to an inverted attitude following an encounter with wake turbulence.
4. After take-off with your aircraft at maximum gross weight, your exuberance during the climbing turn causes the airplane’s high wing to stall and the low wing flies over the top into a spin.
The first two situations can be considered routine, but situations #3 and #4 are real life in flight pilot emergencies. The control inputs you routinely make in situations #1 and #2 will form your habits. Those habits are the reflex reactions that you will use in situations #3 and #4. If those habits are based upon good airmanship, the upset and unusual attitudes are readily recovered. Poor technique and bad reflex reactions will probably result in a tragic out come in situations #3 and #4.
Which statements are true with reference to proper control inputs common to all four of these situations?
1. The correct answer is not obvious to most pilots, because this maneuver is not taught in pilot school.
2. Fighter pilots are very much are aware of control input and practice this maneuver.
3. Structural engineers are very concerned with these control inputs.
All three of the statements above apply to a roll, the fundamental use of flight controls common to the four situations presented. Using the flight controls to roll an airplane is the subject of this month’s Hangar Talk."
More at at https://www.dylanaviation.com/unload-the-elevator-before-you-roll/ Jim and I share similar philosophies about flying airplanes.
The International Aerobatic Club's also has a regular newsletter: IN THE LOOP at http://pages.eaa.org/index.php/email/emailWebview?md_id=19549 There is a lot going on with aerobatics in the USA this season. Their National Aerobatics Day is on 26th June - what will we do here?
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