[NSRCA-dist8] 2013-14 Masters update

[astropuppy]

Jim, what about the throttle; Is it part of the snap mix?

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:55 PM, J N Hiller <jnhiller at earthlink.net> wrote:

> We've had assume flying weather here. I've missed two days since going to
> Richland. Looks like the nice weather will hold for over a week yet, we'll
> see.
> Snap rolls, Yes you've all herd more than you ever wanted to know about
> snap
> rolls. Here's my story.
> I'm a single rate flier and I thumbed the 1 1/2 positive horizontal snap on
> the old triangle using full control deflection, but it didn't work in the
> 45
> down (Cuban 8). I didn't have enough control authority without prop-wash so
> I decided to commit one of the TX snap functions to deal with it rather
> than
> start using dual rates. In the process of setting throws it occurred to me
> that un-balancing the aileron deflection would result in an angled roll
> center walking the nose in a circle resembling a stalled wing snap roll.
> It worked well; settings - 130% elevator, about 85% rudder, 90% L-aileron
> and 35% R-aileron deflection, slow and manageable. I probably need to tweak
> the throws some more and I will probably do the same with the single
> horizontal inverted snap (top hat) as well.
> Its what it looks like that counts not how you got it to do it.
> For what its worth!
> Jim
>
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