Which of these is cheating?

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:53:46 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

All of the aircraft I've tried seem to exhibit phugoid oscillations in
altitude. I guess it's just a matter of knowing exactly how to lead
the oscillations in your control adjustments so that they gradually
cancel out. I'm not sure whether it's better to deal with them by
changing pitch or by changing throttle settings (or perhaps both).

If you're trying to maintain a constant altitude at cruise, you set
the throttle to the desired rpm and control pitch to maintain altitude
and speed.

Something I've tried in the sim is watching the horizon out the
window. If it remains on the same straight line throughout a turn,
the turn is coordinated (I think). If it doesn't, I'm doing something
wrong. For slips and skids, the horizon changes position; in a
coordinated turn, the scenery moves parallel to the horizon, but the
horizon itself stays steady.

No, not at all. You can have an uncoordinated turn while maintaining
a constant bank and pitch angle.

-Dana


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Dana M. Hague d(dash)m(dash)hague(at)comcast(dot)net writes:

No, not at all. You can have an uncoordinated turn while maintaining
a constant bank and pitch angle.

Yes. In my recent experiments, the horizon looks stable, but the ball
is still sliding to one side.

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