Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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see the pitch rate needle start to mo're just a
l ittle tiny bit.
That was showing you that you
weren' t quite on trim.
Then I'd tweek it and it
would sit right there, and it would just start trim­
ming itself out on the ball.
When it trimmed out you damped the rates.
You were in
single- ring di rect?
Well , at 400 KI went to single- ring direct.
Yes, we were in pulse
Yes, single- ring pulse.
Single- r ing pulse to 400 K -­
Then I went to RATE COMMAND on the attitude control
selector and took the ACME RCS switch to direct -­
one to direct,! the other one was to off.
Then I used ,
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single- ring direct throughout the ree'.ltry, until
very late when the oscillations got so rapid that 1·
had to concentrate too much on them rather than the
attitude .
Then I went into ACME
just put the
RCS switch to ACME and then flew the attitude with
the stick and allowed the RCS to damp the oscillations.
Still one ring?
Still one ring.
We didn't go on dual- rings until below 70 000 feet .