How often do you fly coordinated?

[carguy4471 19]

Always fly coordinated, dark grey sweat pants, grey Nike sweatshirt, grey socks and black and grey trainers.... :wink:

 

^^^^   Cracked me up!!

[JLSeagull 191]

Always fly coordinated, dark grey sweat pants, grey Nike sweatshirt, grey socks and black and grey trainers.... :wink:

:Applause:

[TrafficPilot 121]

Always keep that balance ball in the middle! That's what I was taught when I learnt to fly. Your aeroplane will thank you

 

The only exception to that rule is when you side-slip to lose altitude without gaining extra speed. Sadly this isn't very well replicated in P3D (or FSX).

[gpf3m 41]

When piloting my Beech, I always fly with yoke and rudder coordinated.  On the simulator (prepar3d), the rudder is too sensitive and I tend to always over compensate.  Thus I really only use it when crabbing or in cross winds.  Also, with the simulator there is no "seat of the pants" feel so much of the physical cues are missed.

[MarkDH 234]

side-slip to lose altitude without gaining extra speed. Sadly this isn't very well replicated in P3D (or FSX).

 

That depends on the aircraft implementation. Do you have the Realair Scout? Or the Carenado Cessna 152? Those ones side-slip exceptionally well. The A2A Cub sort of does but doesn't seem to have enough rudder assertion. From memory I think a lot of the Golden Age Simulations aircraft work well (notably the PT-22). Probably lots of others but I don't fly many different aircraft much.

[kand 205]

I only ever used to use the rudder to compensate for prop torque when putting the power on in the climb, never used to look at the ball and most of the time flew skid turns. In a real aircraft you dont need to look at the turn coordinator because you can feel that the aircraft is aligned to the turn, in FSX i dont bother and leave auto-coord off. 

 

The other time i would use rudder is for turns without using the control wheel, my instructor used to get me to fly back to London just using rudder,trim and power, teaches you how to really handle the aircraft. 

[Nyxx 6,993]

Bob, I was having a joke I though I made that clear.....never mind.

 

Auto rudder.......not for me.

[Christopher Low 5,325]

When you only have a CH Flightstick Pro joystick as a controller, AutoRudder is pretty much required.

[TrafficPilot 121]

 

 

Do you have the Realair Scout? Or the Carenado Cessna 152?

 

The Scout yes. And their SF260, Duke and Lancair slip nicely too. Particularly useful with the ultra-slippery Lancair!

 

And yes when feeling lazy I also trim the aeroplane out and just change direction gently using the rudder only. Good fun

[JNS 106]

^^^^   Cracked me up!!

That was my laugh for the day, too.  Good one!

 

Jeff

[Guest]

Well, I am a glider pilot. Need I say more. If you power guys want to learn what your feet are for go take some gliding lessons.

[vbazillio 2,224]

Like a lot of simmers, I use P3D as a home training device to keep in touch with GA aviation and stay awake on some core topics among them checklist, briefing, iPad + nav.app handling... and skid ball monitoring. It's a great feature, why would I skip it ! ;-)