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Offline Parrotheadvol

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Re: New Forum & News Updates
« Reply #1185 on: January 03, 2016, 06:35:25 PM »
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I hope everyone had a nice holiday break.

Mine was pretty simple. it's still hard trying to continue Christmas, thanksgiving etc. without my father around. I battle the loss everyday, but the holiday's make it worse....

Anyway, I got the usual. clothes, tools, and my favorite...Chromecast  :P works pretty good.

It's tough. I lost my mother 3 weeks ago. It's hard everyday, but the holidays can be especially hard.
 

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Re: New Forum & News Updates
« Reply #1186 on: January 04, 2016, 08:13:05 AM »
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I hope everyone had a nice holiday break.

Mine was pretty simple. it's still hard trying to continue Christmas, thanksgiving etc. without my father around. I battle the loss everyday, but the holiday's make it worse....

Anyway, I got the usual. clothes, tools, and my favorite...Chromecast  :P works pretty good.

It's tough. I lost my mother 3 weeks ago. It's hard everyday, but the holidays can be especially hard.


Sorry to here about your loss.

It seems like it was yesterday my parents house was full of people on Christmas with cousin's, grandparents, uncle's..now, my mom, brother and sister....that's it.  :(

 

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Re: New Forum & News Updates
« Reply #1187 on: January 04, 2016, 07:18:52 PM »
377, you will probably get a kick out of this. it's a few of my landings from a while back....watch in HD for full effect... :P


 

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Re: New Forum & News Updates
« Reply #1188 on: January 04, 2016, 07:34:51 PM »
Lots of fun watching em Shutter.

Are you a Connie fan? Saw you chose to land a Lufthansa Super Connie.

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Cant wait til that 1649 flies.

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Re: New Forum & News Updates
« Reply #1189 on: January 04, 2016, 07:40:20 PM »
I like them, but this one is really hard to fly. it doesn't have a 3D cockpit, it fly's like a brick house, and extremely hard to land. I'm not to familiar with the cockpits on most of the aircraft flown in the video. the helicopter is a nightmare. I haven't a clue how to fly it.


I also have a parachute program. it doesn't have a round canopy though  :(
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Re: New Forum & News Updates
« Reply #1190 on: January 04, 2016, 09:58:09 PM »
 

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Re: New Forum & News Updates
« Reply #1191 on: January 06, 2016, 05:08:41 PM »
Wanna get a real challenge? Try the simulators for the WWI planes at the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field in Seattle. Yikes! The Nieuports really pull hard to the left...or is that to the right?
 

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« Reply #1192 on: January 06, 2016, 05:12:47 PM »
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Wanna get a real challenge? Try the simulators for the WWI planes at the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field in Seattle. Yikes! The Nieuports really pull hard to the left...or is that to the right?


Most prop planes will pull to one side. is that what you are talking about...taking off?


Torque effect is the influence of engine torque on aircraft movement and control. It is generally exhibited as a left turning tendency in piston single engine propeller driven aircraft.

According to Newton's law, "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction," such that the propeller, if turning clockwise (when viewed from the cockpit), imparts a tendency for the aircraft to rotate counterclockwise. Since most single engine aircraft have propellers rotating clockwise, they rotate to the left, pushing the left wing down.

Typically, the pilot is expected to counter this force through the control inputs. To counter the aircraft roll left, the pilot applies right aileron.

It is important to understand that torque is a movement about the roll axis. Aileron controls roll. Prop torque is not countered by moving the rudder or by setting rudder trim. It is countered by moving or trimming the aileron.

This correction induces adverse yaw, which is corrected by moving or trimming the rudder (right rudder).

On aircraft with contrarotating propellers (propellers that rotate in opposite directions) the torque from the two propellers cancel each other out, so that no compensation is needed.

Most of the single prop planes I have roll to the left....bi-planes, ww2 planes are a huge problem...
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Re: New Forum & News Updates
« Reply #1193 on: January 06, 2016, 05:21:02 PM »
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Re: New Forum & News Updates
« Reply #1194 on: January 06, 2016, 10:43:17 PM »
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Wanna get a real challenge? Try the simulators for the WWI planes at the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field in Seattle. Yikes! The Nieuports really pull hard to the left...or is that to the right?

In which direction did the Nieuport's propeller rotate?  If the propeller rotates clockwise, as seen from behind, the nose will pull to the left.  If the propeller rotates counter-clockwise, as seen from behind, the nose will pull to the right.  These are the primary effects, but there are some relatively minor secondary effects.

In the case of multi-engine aircraft with counter rotating engines, there can be some significant effects that depends on whether or not the propeller tips are travelling upwards or downwards at the fuselage.

I believe the P-38 had problems related to this, which were corrected by shifting the right hand engine to the left side and the left engine to the right side.  If I remember the story correctly, the pilot couldn't get the nose wheel off the runway until the engines were switched. 
 

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Re: New Forum & News Updates
« Reply #1195 on: January 06, 2016, 11:43:19 PM »
VM Yeates in his novel "Winged Victory" mentions this torque effect in one of his hair-raising descriptions of WWI aerial combat. A German patrol got the jump on him, and he "played dead" by letting go of the plane's controls. The plane made a tell-tale bank to the left, and the Germans went on their merry way, assuming a successful kill.
 

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Re: New Forum & News Updates
« Reply #1196 on: January 07, 2016, 11:58:39 AM »
A new Drone is coming....


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Re: New Forum & News Updates
« Reply #1197 on: January 07, 2016, 08:56:34 PM »
 

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Re: New Forum & News Updates
« Reply #1198 on: January 07, 2016, 09:09:05 PM »
P-38 startup...counter clock from cockpit,,,'

 

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Re: New Forum & News Updates
« Reply #1199 on: January 08, 2016, 07:23:05 PM »
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