Activity Guide
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More Maneuvers Flight Simulation
Practicing New Maneuvers
Open the ight simulation software.
How to Perform an Aileron Roll
From the Main Menu, click on Free Flight. 1.
From the Free Flight screen, under 1. Current Aircraft, click on Change. Select the Bombardier 2.
Learjet 45 aircraft from the list and click OK. Under 2. Current Location, click on Change. Select a
location from the list of thousands of airports. Click OK. Change the 3. Current Weather to Clear
skies. Do not change the 4. Current Time and Season.
Click Fly Now!3.
Increase your speed to 30 knots above cruise speed.4.
Pull back on the yoke until the nose of the airplane is slightly above the horizon.5.
Release the pitch by allowing the yoke to return to the neutral position. Then apply the ailerons by 6.
turning the yoke the way you want the aircraft to roll.
How to Recover from an Aileron Roll
Just before the plane is in level ight, apply the ailerons in the opposite direction that you did to 1.
begin the roll.
Level the plane out and continue to y straight and level.2.
How to Fly Inverted
Begin an aileron roll.1.
As you roll past 902. ° (
1
⁄4 of a circle), let up on the ailerons.
As you roll to 1803. ° (
1
⁄2 of a circle), stop rolling and push the yoke forward slightly.
Adjust the controls to obtain level, inverted ight.4.
To recover from inverted ight, simply repeat the steps you have just done until you roll another 5.
180°.
How to Perform a Split “S”
Begin an aileron roll.1.
As you roll past 902. ° (
1
⁄4 of a circle), let up on the ailerons.
As you roll 180º (3.
1
⁄2 of a circle), stop rolling and push the yoke forward slightly.
Adjust the controls to obtain level, inverted ight.4.
Pull back on the yoke and let up on the throttle.5.
As you begin to level out, pitch the nose back down to level ight and push the throttle back up to 6.
cruising speed.
How to Perform an Immelmann
Fly to an altitude of 6000 feet or more.1.
Push forward on the yoke into a nose dive. Keep diving until you reach 200 knots on the airspeed 2.
indicator.
Pull up steadily by pulling on the yoke.3.
When you see blue sky out of the windshield, apply full throttle.4.
Push the yoke in to drop the nose into level ight.5.