Jump to content

Recommended Posts

Posted

Another minor bug: the turn indicator doesn't seem to indicate turns greater than rate 1.

I'm in a very tight spiral dive here, but the turn indicator still shows I'm doing a standard turn (180° per sixty seconds, I think). The aircraft symbol surely should be able to move beyond the marks that indicate a standard turn, or how do you know you're turning too tight?

(hope this doesn't come across as nit-picking, but IFR is what I like, so I'm mostly looking at all the instruments...)

post-2864-131369596091_thumb.jpg

Posted

The turn indicator, from what I remember in the POH, only shows a turn indication and that turn indication only goes up to 20°.  The instrument only tells you that you are in a turn.  For the angle of turn or any details of the turn, the artificial horizon should be used.

I will check into it, though.

Posted

OK, thanks for the reply. I thought it was (what I now have learned is called) a Turn Coordinator, which indicates rate of heading change (not angle of roll). With a turn coordinator, if you line the wingtip up with the mark, you're doing a Standard Rate turn (2min for a complete 360° turn) which is used in some instrument flying procedures such as holding patterns and instrument approaches. And also useful if  your compasses are all broke - you can make heading changes using the TC and a stopwatch.

Posted

Just looked through the documentation in the POH, my notes from my flying school days and wikipedia.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_coordinator

All co ordinated turns are to take 2 minutes.  They are not supposed to be "rushed".  It sucks that it's capped, but that's the way it was.  

I might actually check out if the "plane" stops moving past the 20° mark. 

If it does keep going (so as to accurately hold the aircraft at a non capped marker point) I'll fix it for the next update.

Posted

This is incorrect. Turn Coordinators display rates greater than 3*/sec. What should happen is the turn coordinator should display rate of heading change and will peg out at about 5*/sec with the artificial airplane pointing its wing to a point that is about 50% further than the standard rate marking.

Rate of turn (angular rate or heading change per unit time) is indirectly related to bank angle, but is also a function of speed, so you cannot say that the turn coordinator should or should not peg at 20*.

Posted

This is incorrect. Turn Coordinators display rates greater than 3*/sec. What should happen is the turn coordinator should display rate of heading change and will peg out at about 5*/sec with the artificial airplane pointing its wing to a point that is about 50% further than the standard rate marking.

Rate of turn (angular rate or heading change per unit time) is indirectly related to bank angle, but is also a function of speed, so you cannot say that the turn coordinator should or should not peg at 20*.

I'll be looking further into the turn co ordinator issue early next week.

There will be a final update sometime in January.

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...