Please, please - for your own clear conscience do not reduce adverse yaw and itâs effects! This is super important to student pilots safety.
If possible err rather on the side of signalling all pilot errors.
More and more people try to use sims like Condor and MSFS before starting gliding in RL or as an additional tool in their basic training.
Whether they should do it and how is another topic, but no matter what we think about it theyâll just do it.
Without adverse yaw and itâs effects (nose movement, slip, polar degradation, wind noise) they have incorrect feedback from the sim - to turn you donât need rudder - thus develop, strong incorrect habit.
Incorrect rudder use at final turn is quite common reason of spinning at low alt and thus death.
Please note - you probably learned and did RL gliding for long before any decent glider sim was available - your strong habits come from RL so sim deficiences doesnât affect you that much, but now we face opposite situation - many student pilots now come with significant sim background - and they have totally incorrect conception how turning in RL in gliders works.
For me right now I catch myself that even though I have proper rudder pedals I often forget to use it in LS4,AS33, Discus as nothing bad happens - only K7 sometimes reminds me to use rudder. Luckly I instantly do the correct thing when flying in RL - as it seems I react on different feedback the RL glider forces provide.
And this observation about new pilot students, that first they have to unlearn bad habits from sims is quite common in instructors - thus giving bad opinion about sims in general - please help remedy this situation.
Recently at polish FB gliding group there was discussion about some older article that analyzed deadly accidents in polish training glider SZD-50 Puchacz.
I did my basic traning with it and for me it is a perfectly good trainer - it can also train aerobatics and spins - so it requires clean/proper piloting skills and signals you your errors.
Sebastian Kawa (17 times world glider champion) commented this article perfectly in my opinion (highlighting importance of correct rudder training):
The problem of modern training is the lack of learning to properly control the legs, the rudder. Generally bad control technique and bad coordination. And this is badly taught by badly trained instructors. They teach students after simulators or after flight training, where the legs are not used as hard as on a glider, and you do not fly as close to Vs in turns as on a glider. The Puchacz is a normal glider, not a parachute, and this is the studentâs first verification before flying other gliders. If the glider nose floats to such a student, excited vertically with incompetent control of the ailerons only, he should not go any further. Then such a pilot would like to fly with something better, and then he would have problems. For example, try the JS1 21m! There were even oscillations and spins during the aerotow! I do not hope that this opinion will reach the minds of those who teach. I rather expect hate, but oh well. Such a world. And the badly trained pay for it.
