Cuban Eight in a head wind

[Brian Young]

The info by Don Szczur is good I especially find that
using more power is helpful. Im curious about prop
changes for wind and whether people change props for
wind; increase in pitch or decrease?

On the cuban 8s I find that I need to pay attention to
the upwind side and be sure to extend the 5/8 loop
adequatly since the downwind side tends to get
stretched by high winds. Im flying a reverse cuban 8
but it should apply to a cuban 8 as well.


--- Don Ramsey <donramsey at cox-internet.com> wrote:
> Keith,
> 
> I've added some flying techniques to my website that
> deals with flying in wind.  It's written by Don
> Szczur and would apply to this.  View at
> www.cox-internet.com/donramsey
> 
> Don
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Keith Black 
>   To: discussion at nsrca.org 
>   Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 9:08 PM
>   Subject: Cuban Eight in a head wind
> 
> 
>   I'd like some advice on the best way to perform a
> symmetrical Cuban Eight with a strong head wind.
> 
>   Today I was out practicing and was struggling with
> trying to keep the two halves even and the center
> downlines at 45 deg. and crossing in the middle.
> Obviously the wind is pushing the plane back when
> going into the first 1/2 Cuban so I know that it is
> necessary to drive into the wind, but to do this I
> need to keep the plane's nose forward for a longer
> period of time than normal (on the upline). Then
> when it's time to come around for the down wind
> portion it seems that I have to flip the plane a bit
> too abruptly in order to get the 45 deg downline
> centered before the wind pushes me back to far. It's
> at the transition between driving into the wind and
> reversing directions that I'm not sure about. Is it
> acceptable for the plane to relatively quick go from
> nose forward to nose backward? If I don't do this I
> get blown back to quickly, but doing so doesn't look
> very graceful. Also, in doing this it's hard to keep
> the loop perfectly round through 5/8ths.
> 
>   When going into the second 1/2 Cuban after
> completing the centered downline I want to make the
> 5/8th loop nice and smooth, but if I don't pull
> pretty hard at the bottom of the downline and get
> the nose pointing up then backwards the wind will
> take me too far down field. This pull up does not
> look as smooth as I think it should and for a long
> time I practiced it with a smooth pull up and would
> go to far down field. To keep the halves even, left
> to right, I have to pull much more than is visually
> appealing. Of course, by doing this is also looks
> like I'm pinching the bottom loop but in reality the
> loop is probably more even than it looks. I'm just
> concerned that this approach does not look very good
> and may end up getting downgraded. 
> 
>   Any advice or comments would be appreciated.
> 
>   Thanks,
>   Keith Black
> 
> 


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Brian Young
Tulsa
b4598070 at yahoo.com
918-745-6046h
918-838-0900w

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