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ground loop
- Definição1
- A sharp, uncontrolled turn while moving on the ground, especially after landing or on takeoff. Tail wheel aircraft with propeller engines are more susceptible to ground loop.
- Fonte1
- KUMAR, Bharat (ed.). An illustrated dictionary of aviation. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2005. 752 p.
- Fonte2
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Circular 78: aircraft accident digest n.15. Montreal, 1966. V.1 (Cir. 78-AN/66)
- Fonte3
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Human factors digest n.6: ergonomics. Montreal, 1992. (Cir. 238 AN/143).
- Contexto
- The pilot abandoned the take-off and initiated a ground loop to the right in an attempt to keep within the confines of the aerodrome.
- Approaching the north boundary of the field, the Captain tried to turn left to avoid crossing a road which was adjacent to the airport, but the nose steering wheel was inoperative. Left rudder was immediately applied; however, the aircraft responded so quickly to this action that right rudder had to be applied at once to keep the aircraft from ground looping. After the aircraft was again rolling straight, the Captain pulled back on the wheel, causing the nose wheel to lift from the ground, and the aircraft rolled beyond the airport boundary across a highway, through two fences and a ditch, and came to rest in a wheat field.
- Subárea
- Piloting
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