So I typed in oshkosh365 like I usually do and I am directed to EAA.org. Tried several times and the same so I finally figured it out and here I am.
What prompted the change?
What I really wanted to talk about is the article in AVWEB by Rick Durden about spins and shallow turns in the circuit.
The article intimates that shallow turns in the circuit are taught to be done with the rudder, which got me thinking.
I was flying with a friend, newly minted pilot and he was doing his turns in the circuit with the rudder.
I questioned him and he told me he had been taught to do it that way.
Is that what they are teaching now?
Wow, the airplane should ALWAYS be pointed into the relative wind and the rudder is only there to insure that?? No?
Turning final with the rudder seems really dangerous to me, would we really be teaching that now??
Ray