Folks
I am concerned about claims that you can establish attitude using the compass
'dip" or a ball on string from the roof. Fact is you cannot and that is why
gyros were adopted. In a balanced turn of any degree of bank both of the above
methods will be indistinguishable from normal level flight as indeed are your
ear canals. Surely we all know this. The correct VFR method is to chuck the
hangar cat out the window...... if it goes up you're upside down. Remember Bob
Hoover can loop an Aero Commander without the water in a glass coming out.
Centripetal force is replacing big G. Seriously though, without an AH, you must
use limited panel techniques combining input from a number of instruments at
once (and a cat).
John Martindale
29 Jane Circuit
TOORMINA NSW 2452
AUSTRALIA
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