Aerobatics - Aileron Rolls

This lesson teaches you how to perform aileron rolls in order to help you improve your precision flying.

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[Alain_Escher]

To counter adverse yaw, you need to add rudder in the _same_ direction as you are moving the stick. The bigger the aileron deflection the larger the rudder input needed. Note: some aircraft have aerodynamic or mechanical devices to reduce adverse yaw, e.g. Frise Aileron or aileron/rudder spring linkages.

[josephdavis]

A very professionally made video. I learned a lot from watching your videos. Thank you for your time and effort to make these.

[_oldspraynpray]

Thanks Mate, great information. I'll need to watch this many more times than once to take it all in. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into this.

[tojiroh]

Just chiming in to say how much I appreciate the thought and care you put on your videos.
Having loads of fun applying these concepts in War Thunder. US Fighters + Boom 'an Zoom = Win! :-)

[Tomatow]

Hey good luck with the training man. As a person who's nearing the 40 hour mark in my training flight time I can tell you that these sims will really help you with the basics. Also don't be afraid to switch instructors once you've got the basics down, it can be useful to study different ways of flying, or to just get away from really noisy fields (glares at kads). Anyway good luck have fun and watch for ice this time of year.

[MrFranciscovenci]

thanks for the info.. 100% improvement

[ifedorchenko]

Greate video as usual! One question: in briefing your are writing about using rudder pedals, but you don't indemonstration video.... Why?

[keihin]

The Air Combat Tutorial Library You say opposite rudder to counter yaw, but in the bottom left graph looks like you press the rudder according to the rotation. Am i right?

[danogaa]

Hello, how do you make these black and white videos, any application

[Claude-Eckel]

0:48 _'centre the controls'_ - very important to notice or one would end up in a barrel roll!

But I was missing another important part: are you sure you didn't imperceptibly pitch up again at the end of your roll? Because this is what we've learned how to performe it: you gotta pitch up again when you roll out because the nose is going to drop during the roll. So, either you pitched up at the end or the simulation is physically incorrect. I'll check it out by myself in Il-2 Sturmovik. Wasn't aware of it yet. Here's a good example how it would look like: Note: _'... and then wait for the wings to level before you _*_pull_*_ .'_

Edit: Forgot to have a look at the control graphs... you indeed didn't have to pitch up. And that seems wrong to me.

[TheBrimigus]

the best maneuver to use against kamikaze pilots always pushing the head-on. start with a slower roll ever-increasing the roll matching theirs. you will roll right through the head-on unscathed

[SelcukAskin]

RIP, Canadian Air Force, ‘SnowBirds’, Capt. Jenn Casey, 2020/05/17

[Mitjitsu]

0:13 - This is wrong you press Z or R twice.

[localbod]

Thanks for an informative video.
Why is roll rate often mentioned as an important factor in fighter aircraft in relation to air combat manoeuvres?

[old_guard]

Purpose? Other than victory roll. Confusion and distraction for opponent on your six?

[spider]

Real flight training? That's pretty fuckin' neat. Hope it works out for you not only for your own sake, but also so I can say I've taken flight tips from an actual pilot.

Good luck man.

[Jimbo-in-Thailand]

??? The Air Combat Tutorial Library - Just discovered your channel and love your tutorials but OUCH gotta disagree with this video. In a correctly executed aileron roll the aircraft's nose doesn't appreciably deviate from the aircraft's longitudinal axis. What you've shown in this video looks more like a very shallow barrel roll.

For a horizontal aileron roll, like in your video example, there's no need to raise the aircraft's nose above the horizon in the beginning as long as you're in level flight to begin with. You use both elevator and 'top' rudder to keep the nose on the horizon during the aileron roll. To understand the concept of 'top rudder' think of the physical position of each rudder pedal as the aircraft rolls. The rudder pedal on 'top' of the horizon is the one to apply to keep the nose up. In a left aileron roll, for example, top rudder is right rudder when the aircraft is rolling through 90 degrees and changes to left rudder when the aircraft has rolled through approximately 270 degrees. Of course, approaching 180 degrees apply down elevator and up elevator approaching completion of the roll.

In a right aileron roll it's opposite, i.e., left rudder is top rudder at 90 degrees, etc. My dad, a retired USAF pilot had taught me the correct way to perform an aileron roll many years ago after I had gotten my pilot's license. And there are gazillions of YouTube videos of pilots executing correct longitudinal-axis aileron rolls. Of course, a mid-wing aircraft performs the easiest aileron rolls since the wing is located on the aircraft's longitudinal axis, so no adverse yaw. Both high wing and low wing high performance aircraft (P-51, etc.) can still perform nice aileron rolls though.

Cheers from Thailand! 👍😁😄😊

[videohuggy]

Not a good, accurate video... especially for a maneuver as simple as an aileron roll.  
1.  Wrong description of rudder input
2.  At 1:13:  saying the wing generates less lift is incorrect.  Same lift... however the lift vector is moving, and no longer away from the ground.

[namizobueno-htim]

Decent video except you only mention rudder a single time then make zero further reference to it. That is what I watched the video hoping to hear about