[NSRCA-discussion] R. Puckeruptus

[Lance Van Nostrand]

I know this exactly!!  You'll be flying a sequence with no worries and all of a sudden you think "do I usually roll left or right to start this?" Then you are screwed.  All of a sudden you have to think about the inputs where before it happened without thinking.  I had this happen to my reverse 4 point just before nats and I don't think I solved it until after nats.  The last contest it was one of my more consistently well scored manuvers.  Given this I don't have the secret to solve it but I since I've been flying the new FAI patterns I've had to think through the inputs before flying them.  I didnt' do this before - everything just flowed from watching the plane. I'm hoping that having done this and having a memory of thinking this through in my cerebral cortex that when my cerebellum neurons die I will be able to reroute.
--Lance

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bob Wilson 
  To: nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org 
  Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 8:22 AM
  Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] R. Puckeruptus


  Is it just me, or does this happen to other people.
  Sometimes, the more I practice the worse I get.
  Case in point.
  The sixth maneuver on the Intermediate is an outside loop...no problem...wings level, reduce throttle, push the stick forward, throttle up at 1/2 loop...and so forth.
  I've done it hundreds of times...simple.
  The other day the airplane drifted a bit and I make a mid loop correction.  The result was ugly...real ugly.
  "What's this"? I'm thinking.  So, I break away and fly the outside loop again.
  This one's worse.
  "Holy s..."! What's happening to me, I must have the palsy.
  How embarrassing!
  For the next three days I struggle to analyze what I'm doing wrong.

  I think I have it worked out now, but it's not the same anymore.
  Now, as I approach the sixth maneuver I get bad vibes and a case of rectal puckeruptus.
  The outside loop isn't easy anymore...I have to really concentrate to not screw it up.
  Hope the other 18 maneuvers don't self destruct.


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