Questions tagged [skid]
When an aircraft rolls and yaws at the same time in the same direction, and does so with "too much" yaw relative to its amount of roll. For questions about skids as landing gear, use the [landing-skid] tag instead.
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Am I slipping or am I skidding?
I'm in a shallow left bank, maybe 15 degrees. Right rudder pedal is all the way to the floor. Flight path is curving toward the right. Ball is far to the left corner of the glass tube. Yaw string1, ...
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What causes a slip/skid turn? [duplicate]
Is the rate of turn being too low/high for a given bank angle the cause of slip/skid turn? Or is it yawing too much inside/outside turn causing an imbalance in centripetal/fugal force and thus the ...
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Causes of yaw in slip/skid turn [closed]
Why does the plane yaw when the rate of turn is not suitable to bank angle in a turn? In a slipping/skidding turn, there is an imbalance of centripetal/ centrifugal force. How does that cause a yaw?
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For civil or passenger airplane, is any moment that left and right elevator activated differently?
Source: Wikipedia
I want to know if any moment that the left and right elevator are activated (used/functioned) differently of a civil or passenger airplane. Here I am talking about civil airplane, ...
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Why are there no magnetic compass errors during skidding turns?
Could someone break down why the magnetic compass reads accurate on all turns-to-headings, regardless of geographic position, when performing rudder-only turns with no bank?
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What is missing from these diagrams of the forces in slips and skids?
See these images that are widely reproduced in many different on-line ground school materials.
A) Is the magnitude of the wing's lift vector illustrated correctly in each of the three cases? Should ...
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Why increase or decrease rudder when using elevator in turns?
In normal 30 degree bank level turns, instructors teach students that if you are to correct your altitude you also need to change your rudder input.
Why is that?
For example if you are descending in ...
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During a turn, will slip necessarily lead to altitude lost?
During aircraft turns, will slip necessarily lead to altitude lost?
During aircraft turns, will skid necessarily lead to altitude gain?
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What is a skidding turn (vs slipping turn)?
I am trying to understand the concept of
What qualifies a turn to be skidding or slipping
how we need to give elevator back pressure if we do not want to 'slip' the turn.
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What is the significance of Slip-Skid Indicator in PFD?
Slip Skid Indicator as depicted in the picture below;
What's the significance of Slip Skid Indicator?
How Slip Skid Indicator is used in flying the aircraft?
What are other performance/operations ...
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