Most aircraft are trimmed (with trim tabs) to compensate for p-factor at cruise flight. Durning most of my flights in Piper aircraft, you don't have to use the right rudder much. During stalls you will notice that you need to use it a lot otherwise you will stall one wing before the other and you will start a spin. This is rather exciting the first time it happens.. But you can usually recover before even a 1/4 rotation if you know what to do.
I have flown an aircraft that was sevearly out of trim and caused a constant 45 degree right bank if you centered the yoke. This happened during a training flight in a Piper Warrior, at the request of my instructor, we landed on the first available runway.. in this case 36 after taking off from 27L (the winds were calm). To this day I check that trim tab before flight. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Berndt Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 6:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Flightgear-devel] My First Flight Wow. Thanks for the feedback. This is really the only _best_ way to making sure the feel of the flight modeling is right - getting the qualitative reports from many people is even better. P-Factor is definitely one of those effects we need to adjust based on the qualitative judgment of people who have flown the type. If we had good data on the phenomena it would be good, but we don't. We knew full well that in our model we'd need to adjust it. Feel free to do so until it matches your recollections. Landing gear steering *gain* is another one of those things. As far as the differential steering with braking, I don't know what to say other than we may have to take another look at that section of code. Thanks for the impressions. Jon > Although I've said before that I wouldn't do it, I went up today for a > CA$45.00 (US$30.00) introductory flight in a 100HP Cessna 150 at the > Ottawa Flying Club at CYOW (there's a separate north field for small > aircraft so that we don't have to worry about wake turbulence from all > the big jets). My instructor was younger than I am but had 1,600 > hours flying experience -- I think this is the first time I've ever > been formally instructed in anything by a younger person. > > ... _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
