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Ex 14. Advanced turning (up to 60* bank angles)

Aim: To carry out a coordinated level turn at steep angles of bank and to recognise and recover from a spiral dive. Also entry and recovery from, and uses of a sideslipping turn.

Airmanship:
  • Importance of lookout
  • Importance of maintaining orientation
  • Cockpit checks
360o turns: (up to 45o bank angle)
  • Level: Climbing: Descending
  • Wake turbulence
Steep level-turns (up to 60o bank angle):
  • Co-ordination
  • Use of power
  • Weight-shift aircraft - 270* turns only, to avoid own wake turbulence and possible student disorientation due to being forced into an unusual or dangerous attitude
The spiral dive:
  • If power applied - reduce
  • Recovery by use of roll and then pitch
The sideslipping turn:
  • Uses of
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