Properly dealing with extreme P-torque?

[Travis]

Wow!  Bunch of answers in few hours.  We all have those nuggets of wisdom, don't we?

My two pennies:

In real life flight, I found that even when I assumed I was climbing and maintaining a correct heading, etc, I was still drifting left of the runway because of P-torque.  It's an irritant, to be sure, but very correctable.  What I tended to do was adjust my heading by about 3 degrees to starboard as I took off (your twist, my rudder pedals), and slowly let that out as I get up to pattern alt.

[Hagar]

[quote]Wow!

[ShaneG_old]

Travis: I've noticed that drift, and an almost gyroscopic effect while flying and trying to maintain a steady course, until now, I thought it was the wind pushing me around, (lots of bad weather in the world here lately)

[Hagar]

This particular aircraft might need looking at.

Here is the link to the plane, paints, & paint kit.

http://skyunlimited.net/skyboard/YaBB.p ... 12914234/0

Sorry, I meant the aircraft that Travis flies in real life. If it's trimmed properly it shouldn't have this problem.

[Romflyer]

This particular aircraft might need looking at.

Here is the link to the plane, paints, & paint kit.

http://skyunlimited.net/skyboard/YaBB.p ... 12914234/0

Sorry, I meant the aircraft that Travis flies in real life. If it's trimmed properly it shouldn't have this problem.

In my experience a properly trimmed rudder will pull left with throttle open and pull right with throttle closed

[DaveSims]

This particular aircraft might need looking at.

Here is the link to the plane, paints, & paint kit.

http://skyunlimited.net/skyboard/YaBB.p ... 12914234/0

Sorry, I meant the aircraft that Travis flies in real life. If it's trimmed properly it shouldn't have this problem.

In my experience a properly trimmed rudder will pull left with throttle open and pull right with throttle closed

In an aircraft with a fixed rudder trim tab, the goal is to usually have a trimmed aircraft at cruise speed. 

As for locking tailwheels, the P-51 and the T-6 to the best of my knowledge do have locking tailwheels whenever the stick is pulled back, and is released when the stick is pushed forward.

[olderndirt]

With the primary objective of your average

[Brett_Henderson]

All good stuff..

[DaveSims]

[quote]All good stuff..

[olderndirt]

Fact is all aircraft of a similar gear geometry exhibit these same torque/P factor characteristics on takeoff.

[Nav]

I could be wrong but don't think most single-engined WWII fighters had this feature. Certainly not the Bf 109 & Spitfire.

Must admit, Hagar, I was thinking of FS models rather than the real thing -and all high-performance aircraft rather than just the 109........

Not sure about using brakes on a typical WWII fighter during take-off or landing. That would usually end in disaster.

As a matter of fact they did - risking possible disasters seems sometimes to have been the only way to avoid certain ones.