Hi there all, You know me well by now, I don't comment on much, just glad to read through the trials and tribulations we all went through while building and flying our planes. But when I read something that is just plain wrong, bad advice, then I have to speak up, as bad advice helps no one, in fact it can do more harm than good.
I read that "Take a piece of yarn and tape it to your windshield. Use this as a test to verify your corrections. If it is straight your right on. If it cocks, you should have made the correction at the rudder." This was written on Sun, 6 Dec 2020 19:18:40 -0500 While the yaw string works perfectly well on gliders, the propeller of a powered aircraft places a rotational flow of air around the fuselage, hence the need to apply rudder to also counteract the yaw of this spiral of air effecting the aircraft the more power that is applied. So the yaw sting is never straight. If you can get the yaw string straight on a powered aircraft, you'll probably be looking out the side window to see where you are going and flying like a loon. The only effective way of flying straight in a powered aircraft is to keep the ball in the middle. A yaw string might be all right on jets and twin engined aircraft, but carry a torch if you want to be able to see the string at night. CH. _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org
