[jhb] Re: Weather!
- From: "bones" <bones@xxxxxxx>
- To: <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:58:52 -0000
It also needs a checklist item for Autorudder to be off.
Autorudder is awful - it's a kid's setting for FS as much as turning the
flight dynamics option to easy. There is only one aircraft I know that had
interlinked rudder and ailerons and that was the Alon A1 Aircoupe and that
was awful to fly too.
The insidious problem with autorudder is that it masks any asymmetric power
because it automatically corrects for this. Had you not had autorudder on
you would have known right from the beginning of the flight that there was
an engine problem but autorudder masked most of the vital clues.
The autopilot is also guilty of this in that if locked on HDG and ALT it
will do its utmost to maintain these regardless of what is going wrong with
the rest of the aircraft. It can mask things like trim runaway almost
completely and an inattentive pilot won't know this until he turns the AP
off.
bones
-----Original Message-----
From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Gerry Winskill
Sent: 01 February 2008 14:48
To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jhb] Re: Weather!
Mystery solved, I think.
I've just tried another Citation flight into Ronaldsway, in conditions
similar to yesterday, without yesterday's problems. This time I started
at Colerne.
Yesterday I'd been using the TB21GT, which had its engine running before
I loaded the Citation. I'm pretty sure that resulted in only one of the
Citation's engines running, which would account for the need of almost
full rudder. If that was the case I'm quite chuffed I managed a decent
ILS arrival. It does mean there's another item on my check list, the
minor detail of "both engines running?".
Gerry Winskill
Gerry Winskill wrote:
> I thought I'd sample our weather, so, with Active Sky running, flew
> the Citation from Liverpool to Ronaldsway.
> It was difficult to hold the runway heading, once off the ground at
> Speke. Once on AP the flight was OK until down to 140kias with the
> APPR in and ILS captured. It just couldn't hold it and began to
> rotate. With AP off and flying manually it couldn't handle Autorudder,
> so that had to be disconnected and the Localiser held only by
> resorting to a bootfull of rudder, held on throughout. Groundspeed on
> finals was a very sedate 100 kts, though the clock was reading the
> statutary 135.
> By the time I was parked up I was cream crackered.
>
> Off for a lie down.
>
> Gerry Winskill
>
>
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