User Guide

Flight Simulator

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Here’s what this means to you. If you’re planning on doing a steep turn at 60 degrees of bank, you’d

better have an airspeed of at least 70 knots if you want to avoid a stall. Isn’t that amazing? You made

a prediction and didn’t need to peek at a magic crystal ball, throw bones, or read tea leaves (you can

save these things for weather predictions).

That’s why you’ll need to add additional power when doing steep turns. In most cases this provides

the necessary increase in speed which helps prevent a stall. Of course, if your airplane doesn’t have

a big engine, it may not be able to produce the thrust necessary to keep the speed high enough to

prevent a stall during a steep turn. Well, I remember going to a doctor and saying, “Doctor, it hurts

when I do this!” Her advice, of course, was “Don’t do that.”

If you don’t have sufficient power, then you can’t go around making really steep turns. And the

author’s decision is final on that.

Okay, enough theory. Time for a little action. Let’s practice a few steep turns. You’ll do your first turn

at 45 degrees of bank. This won’t cause a large increase in G-force, so the turn will be a little more

manageable.

Your First Steep Turn

This time you’re going to sunny

Southern California to practice your

maneuver. You’ll like it. It’s a crazy

place. (I can say that; I live there.) In

fact, if aliens from space landed in

Hollywood, it’s doubtful that you

could tell. That’s part of its charm.

1. On the Flights menu, click

Select Flight and choose

Tutorial 6, Situation 1, then

click the OK icon.

The airplane should be

established in straight-and-level

flight at 110 knots at 3,000 feet

above sea level. (You can see

the Hollywood sign in the

distance. And it’s pretty tough

to see anything at that distance

in Los Angeles.)

2. Click Views, point to New View, then click Spot Plane to add the Spot Plane View.

Figure 3