I have watched 10 hours of learn to fly videos so far and this is by far the best one yet to demonstrate the pedals and how they work... THANK YOU, THANk YOU...
Try dynamic proactive rudder movement to bracket the taxi line. Get the feel of it at home by balancing an old wooden broom or something similar on your hand. Not good feet practice, but gives you the same dynamic proactive movement idea. It is the same as the tennis players feet movement awaiting service. Or any athletic stance. We are better when we move.
Good lesson. I use taxi line (and centerline) between the legs as a nose wheel or tailwheel exactly on the taxi line and longitudinal alignment reference. It will appear to be between the instructor's legs as well. I also teach the tailwheel dynamic proactive rudder movement technique to keep the taxi line, centerline, and on short final the centerline extended bracketed. In the air this also keeps the wing level or stabilized in a drift countering bank during side slip into crosswind. The muscle memory, the default, however, begins during taxi.
You should be embarrassed at how bad you are at microbiology, rocketscience, and forensics too. As a human, you're gonna suck at everything until you don't - It just takes practice. Don't eat it too badly!
Same problem with taxiing have had two lessons and finding I am over correcting, my instructor has told me not to use brakes to help correct unless essential.
I don't like the feet position in the taxi animation. Here, the pilot is "dragging" the brakes by having his toes on the top of the rudder pedals. Have you noticed that the rudder pedals are bent? That is so the toes should be on the bottom part of the rudder pedals while taxing so the brakes are not being dragged. I've seen many a pilot taxi with brakes on the whole time with lots of extra power to overcome the brake drag. The video does seem to make a correction around the halfway point in the video. If brakes are needed, simply slide your toes (or balls of your feet to be more exact) to use the brakes. I know this is an Embry- Riddle video, but I used to fly out of FIT when in college in the early 1970s. We always had a competitive relationship. Another trick I learned along the way is the "shadow rule". If you are not sure if your wings are too close to another wing of a parked plane, look at the shadows. If the shadows don't touch, the wings won't touch. It sum, this is a very instructive video for students. Safe flying everybody. Its a blast and one of the best things I ever chose to learn in my life. DPA, CFIA
I don't think so. I think once the plane leaves the ground, the nosewheel strut decompresses so that only the rudder is affected. BTW, Some airplanes, like the Mooney M20 series have a rudder/aileron link so that when small banks are made, the rudder is also moved slightly. But this is for minor coordinated turns. Mooneys have control "rods' instead of a cable and pulley system. For more agressive banks, coordinated rudder input is necessary in the Mooney. Other airplanes also have this feature.
Regarding differential braking: He states, "Using what's called differential braking you can make tighter turns on the ground than what would otherwise be impossible..." Should be, "Using what's called differential braking you can make tighter turns than what would otherwise be possible...". Possible, not impossible should be used here.
Maybe you wouldn't step on the gas pedal and the brake pedal at the same time. I on the other hand am about to show you how to burnout in an Airplane like a badass.
hey guys im a learning pilot and im wondering if anyone has pain when holding the breaks during runup espescailly when we are going to 1800 rpm to test the engine and holding the breaks it hurts my calves, any thoughts on how to deal with this?
