Turn and slip indicator

[Baz000]

Anyone know what the turn and slip indicator is set to in the F-14 for performing an instrument turn? My best stab at a guess is 2 minutes? What is called a standard rate turn for instrument flying if I'm not mistaken...I'm really not familiar and it isn't indicated inside the cockpit and I didn't see it mentioned in the Natops so I'm lost...

Also is it you put the moving square turn marker (by adjusting your bank angle) on top on the other stationary white square markers to execute the turn or do you put it basically in the middle gap? So it is like 1 square turn needle width sized displacement puts it inside the gap between the left or right square and the center... And 2 would put it exactly over the left or right white square denoting a "standard rate turn"

Reason I'd like to know is for Marshal holding at the boat and instrument flying. Which should be roughly a 6 minute racetrack pattern, right? Provided you have an extended wait time to leave Marshal and commence your decent... I figured 2 minutes on the turns on the racetrack pattern and 1 minute for each leg for a total of 2+2+1+1=6...

But let's say you need to leave Marshal in 4 minutes to make your time, either do a complete 4 minute orbit cutting out the straight legs of the racetrack, so 2+2=4?

Or make tighter turns so instead of 2 minutes for each turn it is 1 minute? And then do 1 minute for each leg so then you get that total of 4 minutes? So 1+1+1+1=4

Thanks!

Hopefully I'm not far from being on the right track, I love flying the Tomcat, she really requires the pilot to actually work and not be some computer overseer.

[Lt_Jaeger]

In the heatblur manual :

 

 

The upper part contains an electrically driven pointer, one needle deflection equalling a 360° turn in 4 minutes

[Baz000]

Awesome didn't know it had that in there! So is "one needle deflection" considered having the moving needle on top of the left or right stationary white square needle? Or is it having it in between the center and left or right displaced non moving square needle? The gap between the 2 non moving needle symbols...

How is that being interpreted? That is my follow up question.

Edited October 19, 2021 by Baz000

[Bestandskraft]

A similar issue was discussed here.

[bonesvf103]

I usually put the indicator where it is barely on the block.  When it's there, if you look at the HUD heading tape, if you pass 9 degrees of turn in about 9 seconds, you 'll have a 2 minute turn.  Round it up to 10 seconds for ease and it's close enough.

 

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[draconus]

On 10/20/2021 at 6:00 AM, bonesvf103 said:

I usually put the indicator where it is barely on the block.  When it's there, if you look at the HUD heading tape, if you pass 9 degrees of turn in about 9 seconds, you 'll have a 2 minute turn.  Round it up to 10 seconds for ease and it's close enough.

Can you show a math behind this?