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Oct 26th, 2005 at 6:01pm

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Yesterday I was told to go around when a 737 landed a mile or so in front of me. After I advanced my throttles too 100% and rectacted the gear, I started an uncontrolable yaw to the right, about 30* per second. I checked the engine controls and both were at 100%, then it stalled at about 750ft and perpendicular to the runway. I cut the throttle and nosed over, managing to get enogh airspeed back at about 150 feet, added throttle again and there was no yaw problem. I went around as the ATC instructed  me to do 2 more times and there was no problems except for the rather bumpy landing due to unfavorable conditions at KBOS yesterday. Anyone have any ideas as to what would cause this?
 
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Reply #1 - Oct 26th, 2005 at 6:36pm

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your autopilot didn't cause this did it?

The other day I took off and immedietely after my wheels left the pavement, my aircraft rolled into a steep turn. After realizing that I hadn't checked my autopilot was off, I turned it off and flew happily ever after Grin
 
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Reply #2 - Oct 26th, 2005 at 6:46pm

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No, I lost my NAV radio about halfway through the approach, so my ILS was out, and I killed the autopilot as soon as I realized what happened. So I went to visual with about 2.5-3.0 miles to go. I slowed it down from 180 to 150 knots to give myself a little more margin of error since it was such an ugly day and there was a plane infront of me that I couldn't see. Ceiling was somewhere around 800 so i dropped below the coulds so I could see where I was going.
 
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Reply #3 - Oct 26th, 2005 at 8:09pm

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What plane were you flying?
 
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Reply #4 - Oct 27th, 2005 at 3:22pm

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Default 737
 
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Reply #5 - Oct 27th, 2005 at 3:27pm

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Try recalibrating your joystick?

Everyonce in a while, my joystick will get out of sync or something causing aircraft to want to bank sharply
 
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Reply #6 - Oct 27th, 2005 at 4:41pm

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Ill try that, but the yaw rate was definatly out of a 737s flight profile, the only way that I can think of to get a similar rate is to put one engine at full throttle, the other at reverse thrust, hold the differential brakes on the reverse thrust side, and steer that direction.
 
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