intermediate 402 rolling suggestions

[D Suding]

I noticed something in the Intermediate class while I was judging in
Albuquerque. The two horizontal rolls looked bad even when performed by
the best pilots. I think I know why.

First, you can't just throw the stick to the right or left and wait for
plane to roll 720 degrees. It will lose too much altitude.  You need
elevator.

Second, you don't start feeding the elevator when the plane gets past 90
degrees. This will make the plane cork-screw.  I kept seeing this.  The
plane would roll 90 degrees, and the pilot would feed some elevator,
increasing as it went to 180, then decreasing as it followed through to
270 and so on.

Here's what you do:

1) Find a roll rate that takes about 1.5 seconds to roll 360 degrees.

2) Here's the trick: DON'T ADD ANY ELEVATOR EXCEPT AT 180 and 360
DEGREES!!!!! When the plane gets to 180, give it a SHORT, SHARP down
elevator to pitch the nose up to level. Then at 360 degrees, give it a
SHORT, SHARP up elevator to pitch the nose up again.

Of course, to get picky, you actually start feeding elevator at ~175
degrees, but the key is to really limit the duration of the elevator input
so that your purpose is to correct for the effects of gravity only.

3) Practice one thousand times.

Hope this helps.

-Dennis



> Yes you start with a half roll and end with a half roll.  The inverted
> flight should be centered in the box and last at least 4 seconds.
>
> Randy
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "kyle d." <baseballstar2 at cfl.rr.com>
> Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 11:02 am
> Subject: intermediate 402
>
>> Can anybody go through all the manevers. I really dont get the
>> striet in verted flight do u do a half roll then do another half
>> roll. because u are coming out of a split S. Or can u fint the
>> drawings for these maneuvers
>>
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