Coordinated turns without rudder, and autopilots
Dudley Henriques writes:
Rudder use to acheive the objective of keeping the tail lined up with the
nose can accurately be said to be relative to aircraft type and airspeed.
You need a fair amount of rudder to handle yawfor example in a typical light
general aviation type airplane to execute a coordinated turn entry and exit.
So how does the autopilot do it? As far as I understand, autopilots in small
aircraft don't generally have control over the rudder, and yet they can
execute coordinated turns.
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