virgo47 Posted March 12, 2024 Posted March 12, 2024 Hello aviators! In the real-life manual for P-47 (AAF Manual No. 50-5), in the Instrument flying section (p 88, left column, bottom) there is one of the exercises worded as: Quote Half-needle-width turns at cruising speed to given headings; 90° and 180° turns. What exactly is that "half needle width turn"? I can't google anything around it (except for some completely different hand-craft not related to flying ), some obscure suggestions were related to VOR navigation and fine course correction - but how is that "half-needle-width"? What needle? Turn needle? Compass needle? L-39, F-4E, F-5E, F-14, F/A-18C, MiG-15, F-86F, AJS-37, C-101, FC2024 Yak-52, P-47, Spitfire, CE2 UH-1H, Mi-8, Ka-50 III, SA342 NTTR, PG, SY, Chnl, Norm2, Kola, DE Supercarrier, NS430, WWII, CA VKB STECS+Gladiator/Kosmosima+TPR DCS Unscripted YouTube "Favourite" bugs: 1) Object local camera fast/slow inverted, 2) Yak-52 toggles not toggling, 3) all Caucasus ATC bugs
Aernov Posted March 12, 2024 Posted March 12, 2024 It may refer to turn indicator needle, since there is an instrument flying technique using this "measure": ("The Attitude Technique in Instrument flying" By RODERICK K. CLAYTON, found via Google search) 1
virgo47 Posted March 12, 2024 Author Posted March 12, 2024 Thanks a lot! I suspected this needle, but your quotation adds a lot of clarity to it. L-39, F-4E, F-5E, F-14, F/A-18C, MiG-15, F-86F, AJS-37, C-101, FC2024 Yak-52, P-47, Spitfire, CE2 UH-1H, Mi-8, Ka-50 III, SA342 NTTR, PG, SY, Chnl, Norm2, Kola, DE Supercarrier, NS430, WWII, CA VKB STECS+Gladiator/Kosmosima+TPR DCS Unscripted YouTube "Favourite" bugs: 1) Object local camera fast/slow inverted, 2) Yak-52 toggles not toggling, 3) all Caucasus ATC bugs
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