Rudder vs. Nose Wheel Steering
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Cool use of rudder while refueling … exactly how I hook up to the tanker
He does use rudder indeed we can even see it directly when looking at the tail
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I cannot see the tail moving honestly.
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0:04 big rudder input on the left. Then the pilot stabilizes the drift and just has to release a little bit the left input to yaw
Funny we can see the induced roll at initial rudder input
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Are we looking at the same video? The one I looked at end at 0:23, and I thought that it was a yaw to the right?
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Are we looking at the same video? The one I looked at end at 0:23, and I thought that it was a yaw to the right?
it starts at :04 with a yaw to the left
the yaw to the right is just the release of the previous input
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…for those of you that asked…THIS is what happens when you roll an F/A-18 more than 360 degrees, as prohibited.
This was a USN flight test for a Blue Angels maneuver…I’m not sure if I actually know this driver or not - I may, having been around there at the time this occurred. What you see here is an example of roll-yaw coupling - which can be countered with rudder if you know what your airplane is doing, and you are flying the right airplane. That’s what saved this guy.
As for the Hornet piroette - yeah…the F-16 won’t do that. Or a tail slide either, for that matter (best way I’ve found to enter an inverted spin in BMS)…tail slides are freaky. I’ve been trying to get BMS to do some of the nose-pointing stuff seen in this S-Hornet demo -
You dang-sure can’t get it to fly controllably at 90 Knots…and you can’t get it to do a lot of this stuff because of the FLCS hardline at 25 alpha. But you can help a low speed reversal with rudder (cross control). And the fastest way I’ve found to get the nose down for BMS is to over-bank and stomp full bottom rudder.
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The hornet is a real good plane. Really impressive.
If you want to get your nose down in the F-16, it could really be faster to use the rudder too than just rolling it.
Just beware of things like this:
It is not forbidden, but in most cases, the rudder will not help. In some cases it can help, but you have to know its limitations. If you don’t depart and kill your opponent, everything’s fine
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Yeah…saw that one. Not a “bad” one, and nice quick recovery. When 'terminate" is called, you really do need to knock it off…
When I was learning to skydive we had an F-16 test pilot that brought along a HUD video of an early F-16 spin test he’d done…THAT one was a ride. Looked to see if it had been posted, but couldn’t find it. Gouge is to not panic and let the jet get into some thicker air - in his case the spin was entered, spin developed, spin chute failed, no recovery…until about 8K MSL.
Because of having seen this HUD video on the DZ, the first time I got myself into this situation in FAF my first thought was “wait…I’ve seen this before”. And that the mode is very nicely modeled…acted just like the HUD video I’d seen. Gouge I get from a number of pilots is that aggravated spin recovery in general will occur between 6-8K MSL due to the help of increased dynamic pressure at lower altitude…IF it is going to recover at all.