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Old 04-20-2010, 05:20 PM
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Bashibazouk
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Default Good advice

Originally Posted by usmc-sgt View Post

-Anticipate that and simultaneously as you raise the tail start feeding in a bit of right rudder pressure and increase the pressure as needed.
This is good advice. In general, avoid introducing big transients. That means that if you're doing something that you know is going to cause yaw (such as raising or lowering the nose) then apply a bit of preventative rudder. As you learn any new taildragger, you'll figure out how much rudder to apply. You don't have to get it exactly right...just enough feedforward rudder to keep the residual excursions small.

The residual excursions, plus whatever is induced by crosswind, gusts, bumps, etc. you can just "dance out" with small rudder movement.

But above all, stop any yaw rate early.
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