Estimated time to complete:
- 60 minutes

Aircraft:
- Mooney M20M "Bravo"

Objectives:
- Handling a Chandelle Maneuver

 

Steep Spiral combine a constant-radius turn around a point (as you did in Chapter 3) with the engine-idle emergency descent (from Chapter 6):

  1. Turn to a heading of 030° at 9,500 feet in low cruise configuration (but with prop at 2400 rpm).
  2. Roll briskly to the left to a 30° bank.
  3. As soon as you're banked, start smoothly pulling back on the yoke to pitch up, and at the same time increase throttle to 35 inches; throughout this part of the turn, your bank needs to stay at 30°, but your pitch must be constantly increasing.
  4. By the time you get turned 90° from your starting point (heading 300), your pitch angle should be about 10°. Maintain that 10° pitch through the rest of the maneuver; however, start smoothly and slowly decreasing your bank angle.
  5. Your goal is to reach the 180° point (heading 210) exactly when your wings roll level and at the same time your speed slows just to the clean stall speed (just before the stall horn starts to sound), as shown in Figure 22-17.

Whatever altitude you are at that point, maintain it by slowly lowering the nose and accelerating back to low-cruise speed. Bring the power back to low cruise once you get up to speed.

Ref.: West, Jeff Van. Microsoft Flight Simulator X For Pilots: Real World Training. Wiley. Kindle Edition(Location 12417).

MISSION'S SCENARIOS

Chandelle

  1. A chandelle maneuver is where:
    1. You reverse course 180º.
    2. With a maximum performance climb.
  2. A chandelle maneuver procedure is:
    1. Turn to a heading of 030º:
      1. At 9500 feet in low cruise configuration.
      2. With prop at 2400 rpm.
    2. Roll briskly to the left to a 30º bank.
    3. As soon as you are banked:
      1. Start smoothly pulling back on the yoke to pitch up.
      2. At the same time, increase throttle to 35 inches.
      3. Your bank needs to stay at 30º.
      4. Your pitch must be constantly increasing.
    4. By the time you get turned 90º from your starting point (heading 300º):
      1. You pitch angle should be about 10º.
      2. Maintain that 10º pitch through the rest of the maneuver.
      3. Start smoothly and slowly decreasing your bank angle.
    5. The goal is to reach the 180º point (heading 210º):
      1. When your wings roll level.
      2. At the same time your speed slows just to the clean stall speed (before you hear the stall horn).
    6. Maintain the current altitude by:
      1. Slowly lowering the nose.
      2. Accelerating back to low-cruise speed.
      3. Bring the power back to low-cruise speed once you get up to that speed.
  3. You have to stay in coordinated flight during the whole maneuver.
  4. You need to be able to chandelle to the left and to the right.

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