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   MRockwell | Mar 13, 2007 07:22am | #1

   Stan

   Great pics, but you're killing me with those 40+(?) degree banking photos.  I went flying around here a couple weeks ago...snow still covering everything.  Took my GF up yesterday and it looked a lot like your pics, but the reservoir nearby still has ice around the edges.  So how hard is it to snap those shots when you are in a steep bank?

    

   Mitch

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   Pierre1 | Mar 13, 2007 07:40am | #2

   Just for kicks Stan, in 38e.jpg, were you heading S by SW?

   How do you control sideslipping when banking steeply like in the last shot?

    

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   StanFoster | Mar 14, 2007 01:55am | #3

   The gyrocopter hangs from a rotor bolt and actually just needs stick input.   I seldom use the rudders except on landing and take off.

    

    

   I was headed SE in that one picture. 

   Its easy to take pictures.  I never look through the viewfinder...but just point and shoot while I fly with the other hand during a hard turn.  Otherwise...I can fly hands free going straight and level.

    

   Stan

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   MRockwell | Mar 15, 2007 05:55am | #4

   Stan,

   That's interesting about seldom use of the rudders...but then again, I've never flown what you fly. 

   I love doing steep turns, and after seeing your pics I just think: there's no way I could snap a pic while doing a steep turn.  Yet I don't know the difference of what a steep turn in a gyro is like compared to a C150.  I'll just leave the pics to my GF.

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   StanFoster | Mar 15, 2007 02:51pm | #6

   MRockwell:    The rudder of course on a fixed wing is mainly to correct for adverse aileron yaw...for which I have none.   The tail feathers basically keep it straight and there is a trim tab on the rudder to fine tune it.

    

   I have a yaw string that shows if  need to adjust the rudder by either applying pressure or adjusting the rudder trim.

   You pretend the yaw string is a snake tied at its head.  You "step" on the head depending which way the string is blowing.  In other words....say the string is going to the left...the head is on the right,.....you "step" on the head with right rudder to straighten the yaw out for the most efficient cruise through the air.  If you fly with the yaw string off to one side...the cabin likewise is going through the air at an angle causing more aerodynamic drag.

   But....90% of the time...the rudder pedals are just used for foot rests.  

    

   Stan

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   Pierre1 | Mar 15, 2007 07:07am | #5

   Just a wag based on where the snowdrifts were... :-)

   While practicing for his instructor's license, a friend would often take me up in a Cessna. I loved 'flying' at 5-8000AGL, relating what was on the ground to what I knew from an intimate knowledge of the local geography and topo maps burned into my mind.

   I'll bet you know every crease of that landscape, down to where and when the deer come out to water! 

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   Farmdog | Mar 15, 2007 03:15pm | #7

   "gyrocopter hangs from a rotor bolt"

   and THAT is the scary part!- insert witty saying here...