2% Edition AR 2097-A RN PILOTS NOTES FOR HORSA I GLIDER WITH APPENDICES FOR TUG AIRCRAFT PILOTS PROMULGATED BY ORDER OF THE AIR GOUNCIL a mas “GROWN COPYRIGHT. REPRODUCED BY PERMISSION OF HER MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE.”NOTES TO USERS Thia publication is divided into three parts: Descriptive, Handling, and Notes for tug aircraft pilots (with appendices for individual tug aircraft). Part I gives only a brief description of the controls with which the pilot should ‘be acquainted. These Notes are complementary to A.P,2095 Pilot's Notes General and assume a thorough knowledge of its contents. All pilots should be in possession of a copy of A.P. 2095 (see, AHe0. 493/45). Words in capital letters indicate the actual markings on the controls concerned. Amendments to this publication will be issued as necessary and incorporation must be certified on the Certificate on the inside of the back cover. Additional copies may be obtained from a.P.F.3., Fulham Road, 9.W.5, by application or R.A.F. Form 204A, in duplicate, quoting the number of this publication in full = 2097A-P.N. Comments and suggestions showla be’ forwarded through the usual channels to the Air Ministry (L.1.F.)January 1944 AIR PUBLICATION 2097A - P.N AIR MINISTRY Pilot's Notes. HORSA I GLIDER Part T CONTROLS & EQUIPMENT FOR PILOTS LIST OF CONTENTS Para. INTRODUCTORY... ee ee ee ee 1 PNEUMATIC SYSTEM Compressed air bottles .. .- a GLIDER CONTROLS Primary controls =e : : 3 Rudder controls .. 0 «. ++ . ta 4 Elevator tab control .. .. : os 5 Elevator tab indicator .. : 6 Flaps control .. -. ++ a" 7 Air brakes controls .. .. : ; 8 Wheel brakes control .. 2 Sere 3 Undercarriage jettison control . yo. 10 Undercarriage imergency jettison control .. 11 Tow release control .. .. a 12 Instruments 2 Fe : 2 ae Compass. one 14 Mk IT cable angle indicator : ey 15) DOORS, SEATS & COCKPIT EQUIPMENT Pilot's entrance : oe 16 Troops entrance .. - : os a Seats << - il oe : ; 18 Heed sa ee P 19 Map case... . . - 20 Loading charts .. i. as ee PL Thermos flasks .. +. +) ee es ve 2 Sanitary equipment .. .. ++ : 23 OPERATIONAL EQUIPMENT Gun hatches 25) el ae Ey 24 Equipment containers release control 2s Landing flare release control .. .. -. 26 LIGHTING, RADIO & SIGNALLING EQUIPMENT Radid .. See os aS : 27 Intercommunieation is oe 28 Lights z pe ae: apace Torches is See ee eae ne e8) Signal pistol .. are ear wet EMERGENCY EXITS & EQUIPMENT Parachute exits... .. « Ae a Sy First-aid kits .. .. ee 2 33 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Fig Cockpit - General view .. + * a Instrument panel and controls .. 2 Cockpit - Port side .. .. 3 F.s/1 RIP/2181 2000 1/44PART II HANDLING & FLYING NOTES FOR PILOT PART IIT GENERAL NOTES FOR TUG AIRCRAFT PILOTS With Appendices for Tug Aircraft | AIR PUBLICATION 2097A - P.N. Part PART I CONTROLS AND EQUIPMENT FOR PILOTS INTRODUCTORY The Horsa I is a high-wing, monoplane glider designed for transporting 25 troops with their equipment or military equipment and light vehicles. The main wheels of the tricycle undercarriage are jettisonable, and a landing skid protects the fuselage when making belly landings. Benches are fitted in the main cabin for the troops, and eight military equipment containers (with parachutes) are slung in cells, four on each side, under the wing. The pilot's cockpit in the nose seats two pilots side by side. Section 1 describes the pilot's controls and equipment, and other equipment with which the pilot should be familiar. Items of equipment shown in figs. 1 to 3 are numbered and these nufibers appear in brackets in the text. PNEUMATIC SYSTEM Compressed air: Three bottles, two outboard of the Starboard pilot's seat, and one on the floor across the nose, supply compressed air for operating the flaps, wheel brakes, and undercarriage jettison release. A pressure gauge (12) is fitted. When fully cherged there fs enough air for three complete cycles of flap operation and for subsequent normal braking on landing GLIDER CONTROLS Primary controls are conventional and are normally Tnterconnected by a locking pin (6) connecting two lugs (5) which projects through the front face of the well between the pilot's seats on the starboard side To disconnect the starboard control column the locking wire should be pulled out and the pin withdrawn to the left by means of the plated tommy forming the head of the pin. The starboard handwheel can be removed by unscrewing the wing nut (18) securing it to the hub. Rudder control bars (7) have toe straps and are adjustable Yor reach on the ground to any of five positions; they are permanently interconnected. Elevator tab control: The hand-wheel (23) mounted on The left of the control pedestal, operates in the natural sense10. ql. 12, 12a. Elevator tab indicator: There is a mark on the cable drum which should be set opposite the arrow on the control pedestal for take-off, Note: As the wheel can be rotated through aj ij one full turn forward and backward from the neutral seciy ion the take-off position should be checked by rotating the 4 wheel back and forth about half a turn to ensure that when the mark is opposite the arrow the control is in the correct setting. Elaps control: The flaps are controlled by a lever (22) care ing in a quadrant forming the rear face of the control pedestal, The quadrant is marked UP, 40°, and FULL DOWN and the lever should be set to these positions only. {Intermediate flap settings cangot be obtained. A spring in the quadrant enables the 40° position to be selected by feel; slight pressure is required to move the lever in either direction from this setting. Air brakes: The controls levers (9) extend at each side of the control pedestal; they are integeo connected and are pulled back and down to apply the brakes; spring catches with release trigger grips are fitted to retain the levers in any desired setting. Wheel brakes control: A lever (2) with spring catch and release trigger grip, fitted on the port pilot's seat frame on his right, is pulled up to apply the brakes, Undercarriage jettison release control: A lever (21) with a red knob shaped toes aped to represent a wheel is fitted to Starboard of the flap lever. It is retained in the LOCKED position by means of @ spring locking pin; to release, the pin is withdrawn and the lever pushed down, Undercarriage emergency jettison control: Should the pilot's control fail to act there is a mechanical control on the aft face of No. 5 bulkhead to starboard with operating lever stowed alongside for operation & second pilot or by one of the troops.” gn tbe Zev telease control: The two release hooks in the leading Scges of the wing centre section are operated by a red The roeee) gxtending from the top of the control pedestal. ROLEAgE ATG Position is marked LOCKED and the rear position Arrester parachute controls When in sist of a tumbler switch Wich ts ect ON te otncag eet oP parachutes, and a push-button switch for releasing them MM ynecessary. These switches are on a panel on the port side of the cockpit and are so wired that the push-button switch is operative only when the streaming switch is GN. Issued with A.L/5. A.P.2097A & B - P.N. Part 1. 13. Instruments: The following are mounted on a panel above the control pedestal: ASI (11), artificial horizon (15), rate of climb and descent indicator (16), altimeter (8) and a turn and bank indicator (17). Above this panel is a narrower board carrying the air pressure gauge (12) 2 flying limitations plate (13) and an adjustable panel light (14) for which a dimmer switch (32) is on the switch panel to the left of the port pilot's seat. 14, Compass: A compass (19) is mounted on a bracked extending Tponrthe avarbosed aide Sf the jcontws! Gedestal anda compass deviation card holder (10) is attached to the windscreen frame in line with the port pilot's wheel. 15, Mark If Tow cable angle indicator: (i) This indicator is similar to the Mark I - HOTSPUR - type having a horizontal bar (referred to in the Instrument Manual as the horizontal pointer) which moved up and down as the position of the glider, relative to the tug, rises and falls. On the Mk IT the vertical pointer, which pivots about its lower end, is connected to a gyro controlled artificial horizon unit as well as to the cable angle mechanism. It indicates true angle of bank, or cable horizontal angle variation, or a combination of both, and indicates zero whenever the correct amount of bank is being applied. (ii) In free flight, or on tow in the 'high' tow position the cable angle measuring mechanism is out of action and the horizontal bar disappears from view at the top of the instrument. The vertical pointer continues to function, however, but being controlled by the artificial horizon mechanism only may be used in free flight to indicate angle of bank. For angles of bank in excess of 30° the response of the pointer decreases progressivgly, thus, at 90° bank, the pointer indicates 45° only. The zero setting of the pointer is adjustable by means of the wing nut adjuster below the instrument which is turned in the opposite direction to that in which it is desired to rotate the pointer. The pointer can only be zeroed when flying in the ‘low! tow position with the cable angle mechanism working. 16. Pilot's entranc There is a door on the port side aft of the cockpit with an access ladder which is stowed in the main cabin; the door slides upwards and is secured by two latch fastenings which can be operated from inside or outside the glider. This door forms part of a larger door which opens outward about a hinge at its lower edge to form a ramp for the entry of light vehicles etc. From the main cabin the cockpit is reached through a central door in the bulkhead forming the front wall of the cabin.