Objective: To develop smoothness, coordination, orientation, division of attention, and control techniques while executing high-performance turns.

Content: development of control and touch, coordination, division of attention, awareness of increased load factor and resulting stall speed

Equipment:
Airworthy aircraft. PTS.

Schedule:
Ground lesson: 8 minutes
Instructor demonstration: 5 minutes
Student practice: 10 minutes
Postflight feedback: 5 minutes

Instructor:
Preflight: (see lesson plan) motivate, explain, have student be an armchair pilot, list common errors, discuss.
In flight: Demonstrate proper steep turns while talking through them. Coach and encourage student.
Postflight: Give feedback and suggestions.

Student:
Preflight: Attend to explanation, be an armchair pilot, answer questions
In flight: Perform new maneuver after demonstration
Postflight: Ask questions.

Completion Standards:
Roll out on entry heading ±10º
bank angle: commercial 50º ±5º
private 45º ±5º
altitude ±100 ft.
airspeed ±10

Review: Slow flight, climbing and descending turns, stalls.
Objective: To develop smoothness, coordination, orientation, division of attention, and control techniques while executing high-performance turns.
Materials: None

INTRODUCTION: Attention/motivation: (1 minute)
And now, the moment that all of you been-playing-with-my-dogfight-simulator pilots have been waiting for. Steep turns are those things you think that fighter pilots do. BUT: can you do one, maintain altitude, hold the bank, and generally show control of the aircraft?

DEVELOPMENT: Overview and explanation: (2 minutes)
1. CLEAR AREA
2. Above 1500 AGL
3. Airspeed not above VA
4. Choose outside reference point, note heading
5. Enter coordinated turn, go 360º, immediately followed by turn in opposite direction
6. Back pressure to maintain altitude, watch overbanking tendency

Armchair piloting: (2 minutes)
Student practices saying and doing the maneuver.

Common errors: (2 minutes)

Improper control application
Improper control coordination
Loss of orientation/heading
Stalling
Lack of altitude control

Oral evaluation/quiz and discussion questions: (1 minute)
Q: What kinds of control pressures will you need when entering and maintaining the steep bank?
Q: Where should the pilot be looking?
Q: What are the PTS standards?
Q: What's Va?