What is the Lindbergh Reference? Let's solve the "Right Rudder" problem!
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- čas přidán 9. 03. 2021
- Tired of your flight instructor always telling you to add more right rudder? In a recent Instagram live, I discuss the "Lindbergh Reference" and how to solve the issue of always needing more right rudder while flying a single-engine airplane.
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So easy to understand, I will definitely try it
The advice at 7:00 min mark brings a whole lot of things in perspective, Thank you
right rudder always needs attention as well as the focus point in different phases of flight. after a student has a couple of hours in the pattern i like to explain that you could fly the entire pattern all the way up to touchdown with left foot flat on the floor. even in a coordinated climbing right turn you still only need right rudder to hold the proper bank angle. i start by flying the pattern once and after getting estabished on initial climb with the pitch trimmed for Vy t take my hands off the yoke and put my left foot flat on the floor holding both hands up in the air and directing attention to L foot flat on floor. at 400' agl still touching nothing but R rudder i let off just enough to establish a perfectly coordinated climbing L turn. at pattern altitude still not touching the yoke i gently reduce the throttle to let the nose slowly come down slightly above level to where the VSI goes to zero. as the plane accelerates to about 80 i back the power off another 50 rpm or so to stop any climb as the nose rises from the acceleration. abeam the numbers start to reduce power add some flaps to conteract the pitch up moment. at this point i point out that i still have not touched any control input other than right rudder and throttle. my hands are still plainly visible to support this fact. i remember impressing even a 2 or 3 thousand hour alaska 135 pilot with this demo as i was doing a tailwheel endorsement for him.
I’ve been using and teaching the Lindbergh reference for over a year now, and it’s so great! It made seeing yaw and pitch in a power on stall so consistently good
Boy, oh boy, I wish I was closer to you. I’m about to start lessons and I just love how you explain stuff. Thanks so much.
Really great stuff, love the Lindbergh reference, great name and great technique, keep up the great work. God bless.
Thanks so much!
We talk about the Lindbergh reference a lot in the common 172 and 182. But it also applies to others. The early Mooney Ovation sits up high and has a very high instrument panel. The result is a landing attitude which covers the runway.
Finer points, indeed!
Thanks.
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I find students wearing glasses struggle with landings, the ref. is hidden by the glasses frame, or even blurred.
I have never noticed that. Almost all pilots fly with sunglasses. It takes only the smallest movement of the head to move the frame of the sunglasses if it's obstructing your view.
old guy here 52, reduced peripheral vision and progressive lenses,,,,, I have to work extra hard a actually lean into the corner like Rodmachado shows .... thanks for all you do. I love your landing tips!!!@@tfpclips
I don't recall any Inst calling for more right rudder. Maybe my C150 doesn't need it? I explore AZ from the air looking for old mines to visit on the ground. I back off power and trim just above stall speed to have time to see what's down there. I don't recall using right rudder as I mush along just barely maintaining altitude.. Perhaps it's a muscle memory action that's instinctive after thousands of times. I'll pay attention to my rudder next time I go air prospecting.
not relevant he is talking about climbs with full power.
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Hey dude! Who are talking to? We’re over here!
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would it work for a pa-28
Yes! It works in every light airplane I’ve ever flown. Some better than others but yes.
DV20?
works for any single engine airplane
One of the instructors on CZcams calls it the pizza slice.
Che palle. Abbiamo capito
6:45 ...... well now I'm wondering what the deal is with Russian airplanes!!
Russian engines turn the other (wrong, lol) way. So it’s, “Left rudder, left rudder!”
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How dumb are people going for their pilot's licenses that they don't know to look at the horizon out that window....why do you think the window is there
how many people have you taught to fly? zero? thought so
not a bit dumber than you!
@@chucklemasters6433 WOW WHAT A BURN...lol cornball