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How to Fly Perfect Lazy Eights

Pilot Institute

Lazy eights sound like the least challenging commercial checkride maneuver to learn. While the tilting lift vectors are an important source of adverse yaw, drag also plays a part. Any time a wing creates lift, it creates induced drag. This drag imbalance amplifies the adverse yaw.

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