On December 19, 2005 07:01 pm, scott wrote: > Ron Waite wrote: > > Whenever I start to takeoff, no matter what plane I'm in, it pulls to > > the right. Sometimes it will go straight for a few seconds then jerk > > over to the right. Sometimes it will start going right from the > > beginning, slowly and steadily. Sometimes it will go straight, jerk > > right, go straight again, jerk right again. > > And sometimes, moving my joystick to the left doesn't help much. > > > > Why is this? Thanks. > > Is it a propeller driven aircraft? If so, you are probably > experiencing prop-torque. The propeller will tend to yaw the aircraft > to the right. This tendency gets more severe with the RPM of the engine. > > Scott
Actually, shouldn't the propeller yaw the aircraft to the left? I suspect Ron may be having joystick calibrating issues. Ampere _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
