Aircraft (fixed wing or rotor wing) attach the foot pedals to the "thing at the back that turns the plane about it's vertical axis" - i.e. yaw. On fixed wings, it's a single mechanical rudder (two on aircraft with a second tail surface) which deflects air flow left or right. On most rotor-craft, it's a pitch adjustment to the tail rotor, changing the amount of air each rotation of the gear train throws to one side or the other. (If the chopper powers down on deck, you should see the pilots exercising these controls sequentially while the engine is spooling up. Then they test again after they take the weight off the wheels, and beofre leaving the deck. All procedures mandated after crashes.) How aircraft with two main rotors (Chinooks, Ospreys) achieve yaw, I don't know. The 37 fatality crash while I was a student : I've never flown in a Chinook, so its all rather academic. Though a colleague did fly once with the surviving pilot from that crash - and had to swim home too.Cholmondely wrote: ↑Wed May 21, 2025 7:25 amI'm another X-Axis roller! And also find the idea of X-axis yawing rather odd. I admit that this is due to tradition, the joysticks I know about came from planes, and so rolling is all I've heard about.
Possibly the most jinxed pilot out there.
Retired now.
I hope.
Yeah, must be.
