Practicing in Strong Winds

[don szczur]

Yes, yesterday I was at  full throttle a good portion of the flights.  The wings were shaking real bad but the plane held together fine.

Flight simulator is good for rolling circle and rolling loops, if doing F3A.

But the G2 is also good for other rolling maneuvers.  I encourage Bryan and other intermediate flyers to add top rudder during roll segments, whether its half roll, opposite half roll, or even in something simple like a cuban 8.  The top rudder keeps the line segment with roll on a string.  Flight simulator helps immensely with this (learned rudder input).  There, your homework assignment.  

So your not lonely, for Advanced or Masters, don't forget the left rudder during the half inside loop (over the top, like in a humpty bump).  Gyroscopic effect always pulls the plane to the right during that segment of maneuver.  Likewise a little right rudder when pushing over the top of an outside loop segment (like a figure 9).  This correction for gyroscopic drift is necessary for perfect scoring, unless you want the gyroscopic effect to seamlessly self-correct for wind drift. But otherwise put the rudder in as described above.  Although much more pronounced in TOC size models, this is still needed for pattern planes, even with the right thrust set up for basically hands off vertical uplines.

P.S.  If you have a JR 10X, I'll show the super secret but simple settings, on the scripted sequence of flight switches.  My favorite is the throttle curve.

Its late so before I give away all the secrets, good night.

Lots of cheer,
Don


  -----Original Message-----
  From: Patternrules at aol.com <Patternrules at aol.com>
  To: discussion at nsrca.org <discussion at nsrca.org>
  Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 12:33 AM
  Subject: Re: Practicing in Strong Winds


  Don really enjoyed your comments on flying in the wind one thing that I haven't been good at sense the 80', of cause because we were flying at higher speeds, my personal problem today is that I fly to slow any how, so you can imagine how it goes in the wind, today the winds were 26 gust 38, yesterday 34 gust 41, so I didn't even go out, I do have a Majestic 1400 which is a 40 size that I fly in bad conditions, the amazing thing it fly's exactly like the Smaragd and Focus in the wind, now I'm just talking as it handle not saying that it is as good as the 2 meters, but it is cheap and easy to replace (a Venus would be almost as good as I have flown both) one of the real benefits of flying in the wind is you have the field to yourself.
  Don't know if this would work or not but some online coaching with G2 would be helpful I think just watching stick movements, and plane reaction.

  Thanks
  Steve Maxwell 
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