RE: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Question for all Pilots

Some of the most entertaining flying is found when you initiate a turn with your elevator. All you need to decide is if you want a 1/4, 1/2 or full turn. It's best to use your rudder to get out of that turn, though. (See spin)

 

If you are going to get picky, lock your rudder in neutral - use your ailerons to roll, then pull back on the stick - you will turn. This is SOP in a Piper - feet, what feet?

 

Besides, the question was:  What is the primary control surface used to turn and airplane?  The ailerons are used in the start of a turn, but unless you want to go inverted, they are best neutralized before you get very far into your turn. The elevator is good all the way through.

Bill

 

From: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John Price
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 12:05 PM
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Question for all Pilots

 

 

I disagree, if elevator is the answer then my question becomes.
"when you pull back on the stick which direction do you turn?"
Sorry but elevator does not initiate a turn. period.....
John

On Monday, March 05, 2012 01:48:26 PM you wrote:
> I am not immune to mistypes. haha. Very poorly worded sentence in the
> first place even if I had said what I meant. I said, "Therefore, rudder,
> nor aileron, is the correct answer to the question." and I meant to say,
> Therefore, NEITHER rudder, nor aileron, is the correct answer to the
> question. That's sort of how Wolfgang would have said it in Stick and
> Rudder, and I've already criticized his understandibility. Sorry about
> that. A better way to word that would have been to simply say in a
> straightforward fashion, Elevator is what influences AOA of the wing, and
> therefore lift, and therefore turn rate.
>
> Jim Bair
>

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