Interesting: No rudder needed at all???

[100LL... Again!]

My right foot would get a rest, for one.

Someone with more energy than me can talk about vertical stabilizer assymetry and canting the engine to correct for left turning tendencies.

While we're at it, here is another way to correct left-turning tendencies:

"Right"rudder






Sorry.

 

[Goose Egg]

...the pilot will retain the "foot-rudder" skill which so often causes him to lose the immediately-required-rudder-situation on Take-Off or Landing.

Funny, I have always used coordinated control pressures to track an ILS, and don't really have much problem taking off or landing on the centerline. Rudder-only is sloppy. Don't do it.

-Goose

 

[nosehair]

Funny, I have always used coordinated control pressures to track an ILS, and don't really have much problem taking off or landing on the centerline. Rudder-only is sloppy. Don't do it.

-Goose

Right, Goose, and the student will. In time, he will "pull-in" the aileron along with the rudder, as he gains skill and experience. You know dang good-'n-well that no newly minted instrument pilot is gonna suddenly captain a large aircraft. And by the time he does, he won't be doin' no rote-monkey contol inputs....'cept maybe the ol' aileron-yaw thing in the initial flare or rotation...which is where it really counts.

 

[Tinstaafl]

U-I Pilot, there are many single engine a/c with anti-clockwise rotating engines eg British designs such as Tiger Moths, Chipmunks etc.

 

[FlyinTim]

**CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** man...2 lessons and you think like this...nice job...become a CFI, the world needs good ones.

 

[flyifrvfr]

One of the things I show my students on the first lesson is that you can bank, and turn a Cessna using rudder only. I show them this as I explain that rudder is mainly for control of adverse yaw. I also show them that you can fly the airplane using only the rudder, throttle, and trim. This seems to make a student settle down and control the airplane more precisely and smoothly.

 

[Tinstaafl]

The only time my students were allowed to use unco. aileron was their very first Effects of Controls lesson '...effects of ailerons' section where I wanted them to focus on what those specific surfaces did. After that it's all coordinated.

I taught S&L in two sections:

1. PREVENT the heading from deviating from the target (any recognisable object as far away as visibility would allow, then a specific compass HDG). This done by using rudder pressure to stop any yaw while simultaneously keeping the wings level, and

2. CORRECT any heading deviation that has already happened by using coordinated aileron & rudder to bank the a/c by a small amount, wait, then coord. controls to return to S&L flight. Of course this is nothing more than a coordinated turn, covered in more depth a lesson or two later.