The Contagious R/C and Pattern Bug???

[Tim Seyfarth]

Congrats!  They are few and far between!  At least I have never found one!
Infact , my wife of 5 years has been tothe field exactly 2 times.

Tim
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  From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On
Behalf Of Larry Diamond
  Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 10:13 PM
  To: NSRCA
  Subject: The Contagious R/C and Pattern Bug???


  For some in D4 this will be an update...<vbg>

  I finally made it out to the flying field today, not having flown since
the D4 Championship.

  Got one flight in on the Focus and trying some of the Intermediate stuff
out for next year. This trip to the field was for the girl-friend and kids.
We have six between us and have moved to the serious dating stage...lol.

  Aside from the kids flying, I've been a bit on the skeptical side of
Lisa's desire to fly R/C Planes. She has stated that her goal is to progress
to the same class as me, then out fly me in every contest...

  I've been looking for subtle signs of the R/C & Pattern Bug...Lisa was
very supportive with me going to contest and went with me for the last two.
She was willing to learn and help where she could. Today, we tried to manage
stick time for the kids and stick time for Lisa. The last flight of the day
she was really focused and started to see some of the things clicking in her
mind about how to control the plane. During the last flight she wanted to
fly a bit longer when I mentioned something about landing. So, what the
heck. We are at good altitude, weather is great...Dead-stick from anywhere
would be fine. Sure enough the plane stopped making nose on the downwind
side of the runway. She asked, "what happened?"...I calmly replied, "It's
out of fuel now, so we have to land". With an uneventful landing, her mind
was put at ease from the guilt of running the plan out of gas...Hmmm...good
sign.

  Once we got home and dinner out of the way. Lisa wanted to test out the
GP-G2 Flight Simulator. This is where things really started to click and she
was soon taking off with out too much difficulty. About this time the kids
wanted to try. Lisa said, "No...Mom's Flyin'...Need to wait till I'm
done!!!"...Ha...She appears to be hooked. After learning to control the
aircraft a bit better, she wanted to try and land. So with objects off at
the full scale airport we started the landing practice. Lisa was determined
to get this down. We set the field up so she could land in any direction,
just focused on wings level and the pitch attitude. After a few attempts she
finally got it...I made it a bit more challenging from the start by
simulating dead-stick on every landing attempt. During this time, she would
not let the kids fly until she got 5 landings down.

  With all that said, she even likes helping me build plane.

  Larry
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