Roll stab aug off?

[Smokin1469]

@Reflected

Why do we turn the roll stab aug off prior to maneuvering?  I can't find any references to that in the F-4E -1.  Did you have some "tribal knowledge" passed down from your SMEs or is this unique to the F-4B we're simulating?  Or something else?  

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[Smokin1469]

Dang autocorrect!  Thank you for all the hard work you PUT into these campaigns.  Very IMMERSIVE. 

[Chipwich]

If I had to guess, roll stab aug could compensate for a rigging problem.  But that's the sail trimmer in me .  It's in the Heat Blur F-4E manual in the Takeoff section and more importantly, in the USAF Test Pilot School Phantom Guide, sec 7.1 page 20.

 

[Reflected]

It's the same in the F-14. Remember the stab aug check? The roll stab wants to stabilize the jet. That's all good when flying cross country. But as explained on the fam flight, at high AoA you roll with the rudder. You basically want to destabilize the jet, even kind of depart it sometimes (event 3). So you'd be constantly fighting the roll stab system if it was on.

[Smokin1469]

Thanks!  I understand the concept of turning it off, I was just curious if you came up with that or you got it from one of your SMEs. Not having flown the jet, I tend to put a lot of stock into the -1.  But this could definitely be a case of something everybody did even though it's not "in the book"  

[Reflected]

1 hour ago, Smokin1469 said:

Thanks!  I understand the concept of turning it off, I was just curious if you came up with that or you got it from one of your SMEs. Not having flown the jet, I tend to put a lot of stock into the -1.  But this could definitely be a case of something everybody did even though it's not "in the book"  

Got it from the SME-s but it's also in many of the original USAF/ NAVY publications I used for reference.

[Smokin1469]

Copy that, thank you!  Another reason I like your campaigns so much.