new concepts-Pattern is HARD!!! Darn It!

[RC Steve Sterling]

Gray-- I gotta quit pattern. I meet about 1/2 of the "forget the guy" list.
-- OK, I don't have a war bird, but I have a ARF bipe and other sport planes
that I love to fly around with abandon.
-- Gotta fun fly and think its pretty cool to hop off the field, snap 3
times and loop to a T&C. If I could just do it in 3 seconds!
-- I got more .46 sized engines than pattern engines.
-- You didn't mention float flying, but that is a major kick.

I like all kinds of flying. I spend the most time and money on pattern,
because it brings the most satisfaction among the spread of interests, but I
would be bored if restricted to only one venue.

I live my life as a dabbler.

Steve Sterling
Dist 8
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  Pattern is hard and that does scare the average club schmoe. In an effort
to entice newbies into pattern you gotta look for the right guy at the right
time. Here are my well collected thoughts for those who (m?) care.........

  1. Forget the guys who make peanut gallery cracks while you are
flying....the wise cracks are insecurity they do not want exposed.

  2. Forget about anyone with GOD syndrome. (Good Old Days). If they think
that escapments made for "REAL" pilots you dont wanna talk to them about
your digital servos-or pattern.

  3. Forget about anyone who gets excited about............THAT NEWEST P-51
ARF!!!!!!! They are not ready.

  4. Forget about anyone who says they have enough "Competition" at
work....chances are they are losers there too.

  5. Forget about someone who thinks nuthin' is better than that big O' Ugly
Stick......with two aileron servos for "flaperons".

  6. Forget about anyone who has a fun fly plane and likes to take off, snap
three times and loop for a touch and go...in three seconds or less. Chances
are he is A.D.D. and the straight lines of pattern will make his brain hurt
from lack of stimulation.

  7. Forget about someone who has constant "radio problems"...yeah
right.....

  8. Forget about anyone flying a .46 plane and has band-aids on his fingers

  Now that I have eliminated 98.625% of the average club member...who should
you entice into pattern??????

  1. The guy who approaches you at the end of a flight and asks about a
certain manuever

  2.  Anyone who on their own accord has realized how poorly their P-51,
Ugly Stick, or other plane really flies. When he says "everytime I pull
straight up like you do my plane veers to the left-why?" He is then a prime
candidate. (this is the Horse-lead to water deal-he's gotta be thirsty)

  3. Look for the person who is a decent pilot but is getting bored with the
hobby. You can spot him by the following....He has mastered touch and gos,
he rarely crashes, he can "SNAP" with the best of them and does it 100 times
a flight, he tries to "hover" anything including that P-51 ARF (for
realistic flight mode).

  4. Anyone who cleans his plane (even if it is a P-51 ARF) between every
flight, is a prime candidate.

  With this being said, I have not found any worthy candidates at the
Richardson Club in about 1.5 years.  But then again I have not been flying
alot for various reasons...
  Remember that I am a qualified amatuer phs...psyh...psycologist,,,,,so
this has gotta be right





  Gray Fowler
  Principal Chemical Engineer
  Composites Engineering
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