intermediate 402 rolling suggestions

[wgalligan]

Depending on the air plane you must carry enough speed also.  After a few
rotations the plane will slow down and inputs will vary at the needed time.
I though I could slow my speed down and make nice pretty rolls but found the
opposite.   But when a I kept up the speed and slowed the roll rate things
all came together.   Some people will use top rudder input going over to
keep the airplanes nose up as it comes over to inverted.  Top rudder works
good on the roll over to inverted flight and on the half roll opposite even
on the half roll of an immleman. This varies also depending on your roll
rate.

Wayne G.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D Suding" <junk at velocitus.net>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Cc: <randy10926 at comcast.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: intermediate 402 rolling suggestions


> 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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