Speaking of lessons learned (was are you looking for somethin g)

[Alan Hewson]

I have never had a problem (or at least not for the last few years of
flying) just holding the sticks where they need to be to keep the plane in
control. Once you have some altitude, you have time to make the needed trim
changes. At a safe altitude it isn't a problem to let the plane wander (even
a little radically) if needed. I know that YOU are more than capable of
keeping your bearings doing something like that. In fact, I recall many
years ago that you flew one of my planes trying to help me set something up,
and I was astounded at how effortless you made it look. That's my
round-a-bout way of saying that you can still kick my but in front of the
judges. I would be glad to show you how I have mine set up the next time we
are together.
Whatever you do, make sure it is something that works for you.

Alan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Del K. Rykert" <drykert at rochester.rr.com>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 7:09 AM
Subject: Re: Speaking of lessons learned (was are you looking for somethin
g)


> Alan.
>     Missed being there Alan. Primary reason can't drive that far. Body
won't
> let me.
>     I guess if I could hear the beeps then it would be re-assuring. How do
> you grab gobs of trim quickly when you need to?
>
>               del
>                NSRCA - 473
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alan Hewson" <alan at countryworkshop.ca>
> To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 11:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Speaking of lessons learned (was are you looking for somethin
> g)
>
>
> > Del
> > I love the digital trims on my Futaba. I use the trims while flying to
> find
> > the optimum position.....then.....after landing, I count how many beeps
> each
> > one is from neutral and then I use the Subtrim function. The Subtrim is
a
> > separate function that trims the controls quantitatively.....It goes
> > from -100 to +100. I then put my trims to neutral and continue flying.
> > I never have to guess at where the trims are. I can record each of the
> > numeric values for future reference. Programming it into a different
> > transmitter is a "piece of cake" if necessary.
> > That's just my excuse for having digital trims.
> >
> > Alan Hewson
> > Thornton, Ontario, Canada
> >
> > P.S. We missed you at Guelph

=====================================
# To be removed from this list, send a message to 
# discussion-request at nsrca.org
# and put leave discussion on the first line of the body.
#