Matt Herron Jr. wrote:

Stefan said:
"No, TruTrak does *not* give you a bank angle. It gives you a turn
rate.
Relying on an instrument without fully understandiing it is what I call

gambling. "

Would this instrument then not be useful for keeping the wings level in
clouds? I can imagine in uncoordinated flight, like a forward slip,
the wings would be banked, but the turnrate would be zero...

I have a TruTrak, and it is technically true that it measures turning
rather than bank angle. However, given that you turn by banking the
glider, you would think it would do a good job of measuring bank angle.
And, in fact, it does.


Matt