Practicing in Strong Winds

[Jon Uhler]

Don,
 
I use a 10 X as well am always looking for little tricks.  Care to share
with the whole group?
 
Thanks,
 
Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: don szczur [mailto:dszczur at maranatha.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 11:18 PM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: Re: Practicing in Strong Winds


OK, next time we link up... figuratively speaking, pilot link that is...
 
Don

-----Original Message-----
From: Reeves < reeves at mtaonline.net <mailto:reeves at mtaonline.net> >
To: discussion at nsrca.org <mailto:discussion at nsrca.org>  <
discussion at nsrca.org <mailto:discussion at nsrca.org> >
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: Practicing in Strong Winds


Hi Don, I fly 10X and would love to see how you set up the switches. Thanks,
Reeves.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: don  <mailto:dszczur at maranatha.net> szczur 
To: discussion at nsrca.org <mailto:discussion at nsrca.org>  
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: Practicing in Strong Winds

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
 
 

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From: Patternrules at aol.com <mailto:Patternrules at aol.com>  <
Patternrules at aol.com <mailto:Patternrules at aol.com> >
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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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