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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: stran on December 27, 2009, 10:54:59 AM

Title: yak gauge and display
Post by: stran on December 27, 2009, 10:54:59 AM

why doesn't the small slip indicator read the same as the large one?

and this pertains to all aircraft. does flying inverted produce a bad reading?

Title: Re: yak gauge and display
Post by: Puck on December 28, 2009, 12:53:10 PM

Quote from: stran on December 27, 2009, 10:54:59 AM

why doesn't the small slip indicator read the same as the large one?

and this pertains to all aircraft. does flying inverted produce a bad reading?

Think about "inverted". 

All kinds of things get screwed up when you're inverted.  This is why inverted passes were BANNED at Pensacola in the early 80s.  It's not that they missed the students, it was the paperwork involved and the smell of burning JP5 that irritated the brass.

Title: Re: yak gauge and display
Post by: Simba on December 28, 2009, 05:48:58 PM

In real life, the turn-and-slip indicator doesn't respond well to being inverted; such instruments usually 'tumble' when subjected to aerobatics. I'm not sure whether the Yak ever carried a TSI in real life (some WW2 Soviet fighters didn't even have a fuel gauge) but if it did, it wouldn't have been state-of-the-art, so I reckon AH Yak and LA jockeys should appreciate the one they have.

Hard luck, all those who don't use the superb RAF 'Basic Six' instrument panel.

 :cool: