Making Turns in a Glider

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is Gene; I'm glider flight instructor on behalf of Expert Village. Now typically when we're working with a new student, we're teaching them first to fly straight level, and then we teach them to do coordinated turns. Basically, you start to turn with your stick and your rudder. You go neutral on the controls and the aircraft will continue to turn on its own. When you want to stop the turn, you got with this left stick, left rudder, back to neutral, and that completes the turn. What's a coordinated turn? A coordinated turn is where your stick and your rudder are coordinated so that the airplane is always going straight through the air stream instead of sideways in the air. A coordinated turn is the most efficient turn that an airplane can make. You use the yellow line for that. The yellow string tells you that you are coordinated and that your rudder is properly positioned in the air stream. "