Turbulence causing nose to go in circles
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As a c130 pilot, aircraft tries to head up the wind. That is because it is the minimum energy situation. The bigger the tail the bigger is this effect. I don’t have hud, but have a track pointer in the hsi. Supposing left wind, the effect will be an small yaw to the left and a change in track to the right. The yaw due to the effect in the tail, the change on track (fpm) due to the relative movement of the air mass and the ground.
In f16 I should expect the same but I thing that FCLS minimizes the yaw movements, but still it should have a small movements. FCLS corrects it near real time, but no instantaneous.
My two cents
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As a c130 pilot, aircraft tries to head up the wind. That is because it is the minimum energy situation. The bigger the tail the bigger is this effect. I don’t have hud, but have a track pointer in the hsi. Supposing left wind, the effect will be an small yaw to the left and a change in track to the right. The yaw due to the effect in the tail, the change on track (fpm) due to the relative movement of the air mass and the ground.
In f16 I should expect the same but I thing that FCLS minimizes the yaw movements, but still it should have a small movements. FCLS corrects it near real time, but no instantaneous.
My two cents
it has yaw movement ….here the burst is only 4 knots so the movement is small, but create 15 kts burst you will see the girouette effect