Estimated time to complete:
- 60 minutes

Aircraft:
- Mooney M20M "Bravo"

Objectives:
- Flying a Lazy Eight Maneuver

 

This mission is a copy of Chap_22_SE_Maneuvers, and as before, it start level at 9,500 feet, at heading 030, and at low-cruise speed in the Mooney. Find an obvious landmark off your left wing to begin the figure.

As usual, this maneuver is done in coordinated flight at all times. More important, though, the pitch and bank should never stop changing. Even when you're getting close to level pitch or roll, they should still be changing a little bit. To do this well, you need to really take your time; it should be done smoothly and almost lazily.

If you noticed, the only controls you need to adjust throughout the maneuver are the yoke and rudder pedals; everything else stays the same. But the amount of force on the controls needed to make the plane do what you want is constantly changing, so you'll be constantly moving the yoke and the rudders.

Ref.: West, Jeff Van. Microsoft Flight Simulator X For Pilots: Real World Training. Wiley. Kindle Edition(Location 12468).

MISSION'S SCENARIOS

Lazy Eights

  1. The flight start at 9500 feet, heading 030º, at low-cruise speed.
  2. Find an obvious landmark off your left wing:
    1. Slowly increase pitch attitude, and more slowly start banking to the left.
    2. When you are 45º of heading from where you started (345º heading):
      1. Your bank angle should be about 15º.
      2. Your pitch attitude should be about 20º (max for this maneuver).
      3. Your airspeed will be very low at this point (just above stall).
      4. Start letting the pitch drop slowly.
      5. Keep increasing the bank.
    3. When you are 90º from where you started (300º heading):
      1. Your landmark should be dead ahead.
      2. Your pitch should be level.
      3. Your bank should be 30º (max it will ever get) .
      4. Keep lowering the pitch (below level).
      5. Start reversing the bank.
    4. When you are 135º from where you started (255º heading):
      1. Your pitch should be about 10º low (the lowest it ever gets).
      2. Start pitching up.
      3. The left bank should be back to only about 15º.
      4. Keep lowering the bank bit by bit.
    5. When you are 180º from where you started (210º heading):
      1. Your pitch should be level.
      2. Your bank should also be 0º.
      3. Your airspeed should have returned to where they were when you started.
      4. Your altitude should have returned to where they were when you started.
      5. You should be facing the opposite direction to where you started.
    6. Without stopping, reverse the entire process:
      1. Slowly pitch up.
      2. Followed by an even slower roll to the right.
    7. At the 45º point (maximum pitch up):
      1. Start lowering the nose.
      2. But continue rolling right.
    8. At the 90º point (maximum bank, level pitch):
      1. Let the nose slide down.
      2. Start decreasing the bank.
    9. At the 135º point (maximum pitch down):
      1. Start raising the pitch.
      2. Continue decreasing the right bank.
    10. Roll out and level out exactly on:
      1. Your original heading of 030º.
      2. At the starting altitude of 9500 feet.
      3. At the starting airspeed.
  3. This maneuver is done in coordinated flight at all times.
  4. The pitch and bank should never stop changing.
  5. It should be done smoothly and lazily.
  6. The only controls you need to adjust throughout the maneuver are the yoke and the rudder pedal.

MAPS & CHARTS

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