Thread: Jammed yoke
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Old 06-16-2012, 08:04 AM
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andrew172
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More details about my dark scenario. I'm thinking about the situation when you just start a normal roll rate turn, so small deflection on yoke, when you realise you can't return it to neutral. The aircraft keeps rolling if you do nothing because the yoke is jammed deflected and ailerons are also deflected because of yoke not being neutral. The single option seems to be opposite rudder pedal and increasing speed to have more rudder effect as you said. It's pretty clear that a big yoke deflection is unrecoverable, but for a small deflection is the rudder effect enough to stop the roll? And after that can it lead to a spin from the cross-controlled attitude harder than in a forward slip?

EDIT: Is the rudder more effective at high speeds or at low speeds? Sorry, but that's not clear for me.

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