Aviation Safety's Slip/Skid Lesson

If you're a pilot, do you know what the rudder is for? In this short video, Aviation Safety magazine's Jeb Burnside shows the most basic of flying skills: How to keep a turn coordinated.

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• Aviation Safety
• coordinated turn
• Jeb Burnside
• rudder
• Bonanza

[SaveAmericaGuy]

I'm a CFI and I've NEVER heard of ANYONE teaching using the ailerons to coordinate flight. This video contains zero new information and will no doubt confuze students and certificated pilots. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Select the bank angle you want, and step on the ball to coordinate while holding a constant bank. To each, their own. My 2c

[chestateegold]

steep turns are a lot of fun, but difficult.

[viruslived]

@n64328

Possible but not "definite" reasons:

- There is a designated calm wind runway at the aerodrome?

- METAR, TAF, etc weather data for flight planning?

By observation, the windsock was not fully extended thus indicating "calm wind" which (if calibrated correctly) is 3 knots or less, per FAA standards.

Not trying to sound like a smartass... it just came out that way. :)

[MrAdex10]

whata video i never seen this quality video SUPER MEGA HD

[FMWeasel]

@berndl I agree, not the most explanatory video on this topic.

[FMWeasel]

Though probably not worded as simply as it should be for folks new to aviation, I think the point he was trying to stress was the simultaneous use of yoke/rudder input to coordinate the turn. This is opposed to correcting for slip/skid by "stepping on the ball." If the ball is giving you a direction from which to step on it, it means you're already uncoordinated and stepping on the ball will correct that. If the inputs are applied simultaneously, the ball will stay centered the entire time.

[berndl]

Confusing!

Why did he not show the feet or, at least, comment about "left or right rudder"?

[mjkobb]

Appreciate the video, but I agree a little bit with SaveAmericaGuy -- if you're going to argue that the ailerons are a tool to coordinate the turn (as opposed to the classic "setting the bank angle and stepping on the ball" as S.A.G. suggests), then I think you really need to expand upon that point to a much greater extent.

As it is, I had to play the video twice just to figure out what the heck you meant at the end when you said "you can use ailerons".

[n64328]

Good basic info, but just curious: Why did you takeoff and land downwind?

[hogey74]

I don't think this video is confusing - its reinforcing the need to use your rudder all the way through turns. I don't see any suggestion that you use the ailerons to coordinate flight - its saying to remember the rudder input at whatever angle of bank you have.

[jcostabal]

Would like to see your altimeter...

[PeetPeeet]

No mention of forward slip to land in a crosswind or deliberate slip to increase descent when you're too high on approach? What about power-on stalls in a turn and how co-ordination affects the break? This is a bit basic for me...