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A yaw damper improves the Dutch roll but does little for the _____ mode, which involves almost no yaw rate for the damper to sense.

  • A.Roll subsidence
  • B.Short period
  • C.Phugoid
  • D.Spiral

Answer: D

It is the spiral, a slow bank and heading change in which the yaw rate is tiny and steady rather than oscillatory - and what little there is the washout filter deliberately blocks. Suppressing the spiral needs a bank-angle loop, which is what a wing leveller provides. The roll subsidence is a fast stable decay that needs no help, and the short period and phugoid are longitudinal modes that a rudder loop cannot reach at all.

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