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Y/D switch on A/P panel

pearlygatesuk Guest
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 1:11 pm

What does it do?

Thanks

Pearly

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BashDaBish Guest
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 1:40 pm

Dampens the yaw 😛

It 'softens' the amount of yaw that the plane will experiance. Yaw is basically left/right movement controlled by the rudder.

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Jonathan (99jolegg) Chief Captain
Joined: Jun 26, 2004 Posts: 4127 Location: UK
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 3:31 pm

BashDaBish wrote:

Dampens the yaw 😛

It 'softens' the amount of yaw that the plane will experiance. Yaw is basically left/right movement controlled by the rudder.

It makes for a more comfortable ride for the passengers aswell 😉

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rob (Habu) First Officer
Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 183 Location: Tampa
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 5:11 am

At higher speeds, it makes the rudder pedals less sensitive....so if you use rudder pedals, it takes more input to do same thing as with Yaw damper off.

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