The Contagious R/C and Pattern Bug???

[Ron Van Putte]

Tim Seyfarth wrote:

> 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.
>  


My wife thinks she is a jinx, because I crashed the first couple of 
times she went to the field.  That was almost 40 years ago!  However, 
since she thinks that R/C flying is good for me and encourages me to go 
out flying, we get along just fine.  

Ron Van Putte

>     -----Original Message-----
>     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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