What am I doing wrong?

[Yenn]

I am just flying along im my ultralight, straight and level, well above stall speed and I notice that if I pull the stick back I descend. Can anyone explain what I am doing wrong?

 

 

[BigPete]

Are you upside down??

 

regards

 

 

[slartibartfast]

That's what I was going to ask Peter.

 

But after revealing myself to be barely above idiot speed on the last hypothetical, I thought I'd shut up on this one.

 

Ross

 

 

[hihosland]

Your are either on the back of the power curve

 

or sitting with you back to the direction of flight

 

Davidh

 

 

[BigPete]

Well I was going to ask if you were sitting on the dash and flyng backwards - but - thats silly!

 

regards

 

 

[hihosland]

You are at the aircraft's service ceiling

 

davidh

 

 

[Paul Willett]

You are standing on your head.

 

Or you are drunk.

 

 

[Guest Fred Bear]

You are most likely flying a trike.

 

 

[Ross]

Is it possible to hook up the elevator back to front?

 

Regards

 

 

[Ultralights]

can i have some of whatever it is??

 

 

[hiperlight]

I know what it is, Ian...you've eaten too many bananas before going to sleep and now you're dreaming that you've broken the sound barrier and the controls have reversed.

 

Bruce

 

 

[hiperlight]

And my dad used to tell me that it would send me deaf!

 

Bruce

 

 

[Guest Fred Bear]

;)

[BigPete]

And my dad used to tell me that it would send me deaf!Bruce

Hang on - My Dad said it would make me blind?????

 

regards

 

 

[Guest Fred Bear]

I can't see or hear...

 

 

[Guest Nelson Smith]

Yeh,I should have knocked it of when I only needed glasses too

 

N. (to preserve my identity)

 

 

[Yenn]

Well that went down really well. I was of course flying inverted and what I was doing wrong was aerobatics in an Ultralight.

 

Big Pete was the first correct answer, but hihosland had an interesting answer which I believe would be correct about being at service ceiling, but I did say I was well above stall speed.

 

 

[Guest Fred Bear]

Could have been a trike too Ian :)

 

 

[BigPete]

Yay - I win.

 

I've never won anything.

 

regards

 

 

[Guest Fred Bear]

Onya Pete!

 

 

[Ultralights]

its 945 pm, well paaaaast my bedtime of 8 30, just to check on this thread,

 

What am i doing wrong?

 

 

[Guest Fred Bear]

Hmmm...too much coffee? Amongst other things...

 

 

[hihosland]

Good one Pete,

 

&

 

Thanks Yenn for the mention in dispatches

 

Davidh

 

 

[facthunter]

Yenn, I don't think that was a fair question, as you posed it.

 

Firstly, you say you are JUST flying along STRAIGHT & LEVEL (a bit tongue in cheek), in my ULTRALIGHTetc. etc.. Then you move the stick back, & the aircraft descends. then you ask, 'what am I doing wrong?", then brilliant people rack their brains for countless hours......

 

The only correct answer to this hypothetical, with the revelation of your answer to" What am I doing wrong? "would be along the lines of:-

 

(a) you are inclined to fly your ultralight upside down without realising it.

 

(b) you have no idea how the elevator functions in controlling the pitch attitude of the aircraft. N...

 

 

[facthunter]

Stick movements.

 

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