left or right

[roger]

 mw~whydo some flyers say: their plane turns tighter:whats up with that? when they really mean :climbs or dives: its already turning left. so say it that way.

roger and out

[Greg L Bahrman]

It's a common phrase........When really their refering to the transition from level flight to vertical flight. You might hear someone say my plane has a really nice corner. Those that it's important to would understand exactly what he meant. The radius that the plane flies when going up or down is often if not always referred to as the corner....Grins....Soon you will be doing it too. It's a control line thing, come on join up and learn the language.

 

[Bill Little]

Like Greg said, "turns" as in turning a corner.

Reference to turning tighter in one direction or the other, as in inside "turns" versus outside "turns", is a common trimming statement.  Don't know why "turn" instead of "corners" is the common term. 

Doesn't refer to the plane turning around us in a circle.

Bill <><

[Wynn Robins]

"Turn",
 a change of the direction of a movement or a change in orientation, and it is often also used in a metaphorical sense, contrary to straight

right out of the dictionary.  So the airplane does turn....it changes direction....therefore it IS turning.

nuf said

[Jim Thomerson]

Modern physics to the rescue!   When the airplane is flying level it is flying in a straight line through space, it is not turning.  What is happening is that space has been warped by the control lines in such a way that the airplane appears to be flying in a circle. 

[Dean Pappas]

That's right Jim.
We live in a space that is in fact not merely warped ... but entirely bent!
later friends,
Dean Pappas

[Keith Spriggs]

Just think, if you were flying at the North Pole your plane would always be on the south side of the circle. Be real bad if the sun was in the south.

[Leo Mehl]

I think what we have here is a failure to comunicate! I have seen pictures of the north pole and I beleive that whole area around the pole is flat and besides it is usualy to cold to get your engine started. And you can not fly using Goretex mittens. Now how is that for logical reasoning. The old flyer from the past. Leo

[Bill Little]

I think what we have here is a failure to comunicate! I have seen pictures of the north pole and I beleive that whole area around the pole is flat and besides it is usualy to cold to get your engine started. And you can not fly using Goretex mittens. Now how is that for logical reasoning. The old flyer from the past. Leo

Would it be the same, but different, at the South Pole?

[Jim Thomerson]

As some maintain, there may be some positive effects of global warming.

[minnesotamodeler]

Oh yeah...enough, and we'll gain a whole new continent (Antarctica)!  Ready to Settle a New Land?  them danged Aussies will probably beat us to it, though.