just got off phone with II Marrow-tomarrow is the day our g.p.s. mite mess up. 1-800-654-3415-ext.3991 ask for Jason Wallice .Regards Ken C. -----Original Message----- From: Greg Bullough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jack Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, August 20, 1999 4:23 PM Subject: Re: Turn and Bank
>At 03:29 PM 8/20/99 -0400, Jack Lewis wrote: >>Since the coupe, a two control one, does coordinated >>turns does it need a turn and bank indicator? >> >>Would just a wing leveler - like the ones >>with the bubble in them work just as good. > >I was contemplating the same thing (along with the electric DG) >in the shower just the other day. > >But actually, Jack, it's curiouser than that. The turn-rate portion >of the turn coordinator might have SOME value. But on a pedal-less >coupe, the low-tech portion, the ball, should be useless. Remember >the ball is not a wing-leveler. Rather, it is a skid-slip warning. Which >is something a pedal-less coupe can't do; or to the extent it does, >you can't do anything about it! > >The reason I think that VFR-only coupes have sprouted a turn coordinator >and no other gyro instruments is because they are usually electric, remarkably >inexpensive, and someone just put them in the panel without thinking too much >about whether it made sense to bother. > >The electric DG or AI is probably much more useful, but at $1200 a pop one >quickly ends up with a panel worth more than the airframe. > >Greg > >Greg > >
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