BobsV35B(at)aol.com
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 Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:09 pm Post subject: More About TC vs T&B |
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In a message dated 6/19/2006 12:59:27 A.M. Central Standard Time,
mick-matronics(at)rv8.ch writes:
There is a picture along with an explanation here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_coordinator
Good Morning Mickey,
Thanks for that reference, but don't you think it slides rather rapidly over
some very important points?
It also does not address the problems of using either instrument as the
prime source of information for recovery following a bout with vertigo.
If we are using a turn needle, (T&B) it has nothing about it that even
suggests a
wing or whether or not the aircraft is level. All it does is tell us if the
airplane is yawing. If it isn't yawing, it isn't turning. I think that
indication is MUCH easier for a confused pilot to accept.
Go out someday in an aircraft equipped with a Turn Coordinator and do a nice
strong Knife Edge. Doesn't it seem rather strange to be flying that knife
edge and also be looking at the turn coordinator that is showing a "Wings
Level" indication?
Very Confusing to my old mind!
Do the same maneuver in an airplane equipped with a T&B. The T&B will be
sitting in the center for the same reason the TC was showing wings level.
No turns and no yaw in a properly flown knife edge.
Isn't it a lot easier for even we experienced aviators to accept that
the T&B is doing what it should be doing than it is to accept that the
wings level indication of the TC is proper?
The TC is always compromised. There is no way to determine if it is showing
a roll or a yaw without using supporting information.
If a T&B needle is showing an indication, the aircraft is yawing.
No yaw, no turn.
No turn, no graveyard spiral.
If the aircraft does not turn, it will survive!
Until such time as 'Lectric Bob provides us with a full time, low cost,
autopilot to keep us from making excessive turning maneuvers, I vote for the T&B.
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Happy Skies,
Old Bob
AKA
Bob Siegfried
Ancient Aviator
Stearman N3977A
Brookeridge Air Park LL22
Downers Grove, IL 60516
630 985-8503
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