practice

[Mike Hester]

Very cool, ya know when I got my AFPD yours was the first plane I thought of 
=)

It's neat to have some feedback on how close that one is to a real one, I 
was waiting for that. The biggest difference in it and my own is power and 
rudder, the smaragd requires more throttle and more rudder. I went in and 
tuned that up immediately, because after a week of bad weather and flying 
the sim, I found myself subconsciously gunning my plane too much and dorking 
up my slow rolls. LOTS of other things cleaned up though, mainly the rudder 
intensive stuff.

I had to play with the throws a little as well, especially to make it snap 
like I am used to. Not sure if it's right or not, I guess I'll find out in 4 
weeks.

It's definitely no substitute for the real thing by any means, but when we 
have weather stretches like this, it's good to just keep messing with it and 
I'm not as jumpy when I get my own back in the air. This thing is also 
excellent for playing with new sequences and getting used to the correct 
inputs without risking a plane, ESPECIALLY at my skill level.

Thanks for the input, I'm gonna go play some more.....flying at 11:30 at 
night, gotta love it =)

-Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Ivey" <jivey61 at bellsouth.net>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: Re: practice


> Mike
> The fuse is 'zactly the color and color design of mine. My bottom is 
> purple. The wing design is a little different.
> The plane had some roll coupling and some pitch coupling. It acted like 
> the real thing in the air. I used the 8103 mixes to make the plane do 
> right with rudder.  It really surprised me that it reacted this way.  The 
> setup was just like starting to trim a new plane.  The only thing I need 
> to figure out is how to add some tail weight and change wing incidence. 
> The plane pulls to the canopy on the down line and requires some(too much) 
> down elev. when inverted.  I could mix all that out I think with trans 
> mixes. The other thing it does is climb under power. I just trim for power 
> on  for now.
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> Jim Ivey
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>> From: "Mike Hester" <kerlock at comcast.net>
>> Date: 2005/02/19 Sat PM 10:29:17 EST
>> To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
>> Subject: Re: practice
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>> Ya know that Smaragd in AFPD looks a lot like yours.
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>> I'd like to know, what all did you have to tweak to get it to fly 
>> similar,
>> or was it close as-is?
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>> -Mike
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>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Jim Ivey" <jivey61 at bellsouth.net>
>> To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 9:52 PM
>> Subject: practice
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>> > Well I landed my smaragd to check on e-mail,  now it's back to practice 
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