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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