> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:13:45 -0700
> From: "Richard Fox" <v4gr@rcn.com>
> Subject: Re: Motorcycle streamliners that fell over ...
>
> It seems to me tat if you needed an inclination indicator you could hang a
> weighted string at your windscreen. If it is leaning right, lean left. If it
> is leaning left, lean right. If it is laying on the roof, hang on. Rich
> Fox
If you were indeed continuing in a straight line but leaned over, then
this would work. But if you were leaned left and turning left, the
forces of the world being what they are would want to keep the string
pointed the same as "straight and level". This is why in an airplane (at
least in the cessnas I fly) in a perfectly coordinated turn (even a really
steep one) everything does not fly around from side to side in the cabin.
Hence the need for gyroscopic instrumentation. Although truth be told,
non-TSO'd turn and bank indicators can be found relatively cheaply and
might solve this little problem. Even a mag compass would help (digital
preferrably) since you could tell how far from the "line" you were going.
Or for the truly technically geeked out, a GPS showing a perfect line down
the center of the course would be fun. :) The newer ones are
extraordinarily accurate and would reflect deviation from center.
Yes, I am bored at work.
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