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Jeremy wrote:
: I'm studying for my written and having an awful time with the
: questions dealing with primary/secondary instruments for
: pitch/bank/power during various phases of flight. The distinctions
: appear to be senseless hair splitting, and I'm getting them mostly
: wrong in the practice tests. Some of this is due to my study
: materials explaining which is the right answer, but not really *why*.
: Is there any way to logically learn this in a way I have a prayer of
: remembering, or do I just have to memorize the matrix?

Of course I'm an electrical engineering graduate student, so I've got math
on
the brain, but I thought of it as two different types of manuvers.
Transition and
steady-state. Transition is almost always an AI primary.

The issue is one of probabilitys and certification to those probabilities.
A Primary instrument is going to have to meet a higher expectaion of correct
operation. So you see, it is math, in a Mil-Hbk 217F sort of way.

Steady-state is whatever presents the mathematically integrated data.
Altimeter integrates VSI, DG integrates bank, Airspeed integrates power.
Those would
be primary for their respective steady-state flight regimes.

Not sure if that helps anyone else but me, but it might... never know!

It is the real answer.