More sophisticated aircraft, such as commercial jets, utilize more sophisticated turn coordinators which make use of laser technology. In order to maintain safe and efficient flight, pilots on all types of aircraft must understand and make use of the information provided by their turn coordinator system. Ryan Capizano. Please enter the following code:. Login: Forgot password? Attitude and heading indicators function on the principle of rigidity, but rate instruments such as the turn-andslip indicator operate on precession.
The first gyroscopic aircraft instrument was the turn indicator in the needle and ball, or turn-and-bank indicator, which has more recently been called a turn-and-slip indicator.
The inclinometer in the instrument is a black glass ball sealed inside a curved glass tube that is partially filled with a liquid for damping. This ball measures the relative strength of the force of gravity and the force of inertia caused by a turn.
When the aircraft is flying straight-and-level, there is no inertia acting on the ball, and it remains in the center of the tube between two wires. In a turn made with a bank angle that is too steep, the force of gravity is greater than the inertia and the ball rolls down to the inside of the turn. Aircraft parts Aviation Connectors. Recent Blogs.
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Gyroscopic instruments, like the Turn and Slip Indicator and the Turn Coordinator, rely on a spinning gyroscope housed within the instrument. The gyroscope, spinning at 10,, revolutions per minute, exhibits rigidity in space. This means that the gyroscope itself will remain in one place as the aircraft moves around it — subject to the limitations of the gimbals it is mounted upon. The second force that applies to gyroscopes that is important to understand is gyroscopic precession. Gyroscopic precession is the movement of a gyroscope in response to forces acting upon it.
As illustrated below, if force is applied to a spinning gyroscope, there will be a resultant force 90 degrees in the direction of rotation. However, the turn and bank indicator uses gyroscopic precession to present rate of bank information. The more basic of the two instruments, the Turn and Slip Indicator, is actually two instruments in one. Most of the face of the instrument is taken up by a turn needle, attached to the gyroscope inside the case of the instrument, and three indices.
The index at the top of the instrument is where the needle will point when there is no rate of turn being detected. In most general aviation aircraft, when the turn needle is aligned with either doghouse, that indicates a standard rate turn of 3 degrees per second. In higher-speed aircraft, there could also be indicators for half-standard rate turns.
Both the turn and slip indicator as well as the turn coordinator utilize the inclinometer. There will be more on this in a moment. The rate of turn for a given bank angle assuming coordinated flight — more on that in a moment decreases as speed increases. Within the ATC environment, air traffic controllers are expecting slower moving aircraft to change heading at the standard rate of three degrees per second.
Now, let us climb into our Boeing that is cruising at a true airspeed somewhere in the neighborhood of knots.
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