Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #45587
From: Dennis Johnson <pinetownd@volcano.net>
Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Gyroscopic Stability
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:58:38 -0500
To: <lml@lancaironline.net>
>You can see this if you put your plane into a shallow turn for several minutes and then roll level. Your instrument should then have a bank offset that takes several minutes to self correct.
 
So that's why we fly IFR holding patterns that are ovals instead of circles!
 
Dennis Johnson
Legacy flying
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