Stall Turns and head winds

[Keith Black]

Actually it's giving me a challenge! 

Honestly I was happy to have the windy conditions yesterday as I was able to experiment with different techniques to try and get the maneuvers correct. During my practice/experimenting numerous light bulbs went off in my head and I improved slightly, unfortunately there are still a lot of dark rooms ;-)

On the Cuban eight I'm still trying to figure out how to drive into the wind and keep the loop round without making the plane's transition between heading into the wind and turning down wind look too abrupt. I'll have to get you to watch me after Nats. 

Keith Black


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gray E Fowler 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 8:09 AM
  Subject: Re: Stall Turns and head winds



  Keith....is the wind giving you grief??????



  Gray Fowler
  Principal Chemical Engineer
  Composites Engineering 


       "Keith Black" <tkeithb at comcast.net> 
        Sent by: discussion-request at nsrca.org 
        07/09/2003 11:33 PM 
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  OK, I've got another question about head winds. 
    
  When performing a stall turn I know it's necessary to keep the nose of the plane into the wind on the upline so the wind does not push the plane backwards, but what's the best way to execute the actual stall turn itself? When I tried to do the stall pivot with the nose still pointing into the wind it looked terrible and was VERY difficult to get it to pivot straight to the side. Obviously with the nose into the wind the rudder will not make the plane fall perfectly to the side but will also cause it to rotate. Because of this I tried backing off the of the wind correction and pulling the nose straight up right before performing the stall rotation, but when I did this the plane would drift backwards. 
    
  I'd like to hear how others handle this situation to score high on stall turns in a heavy head wind. 
    
  BTW, I had a good time flying in the wind today :-) 
    
  Thanks, 
  Keith Black 

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