Fly where the lift is, a do what is necessary to capitalize on it. restated once more. thanks. Some how this thread has seemed to wander away from what people were actually saying with regards to coordination in thermal turns. Coordinated turns are a must in thermal flying. All too often I see R/C pilots couple rudder to aileron electronically and call that a coordinated turn. I never advocated skidding around with rudder to keep the wings flat, but turning efficiently in a given thermal. In order to stay centered, and coordinated, in a thermal when flying a particular sailplane or thermal, cross controlling is sometimes required, this does not mean that you are flying uncoordinated all the time, skidding around the sky. Good pilots use their left thumb a lot. Compared to a full scale, a model's smaller size allows them much more leeway when thermaling. I talk of flying at scale R/C altitudes now, of 1500 to 2500 feet. The thermals are bigger, both relatively and physically than at 600-900 feet. When flying TD ships at the boundary layer altitudes that is another story. I have an article on the Scale Soaring page by Wayne Angivine about this phenomena if anyone wants to read it. Under tech tips. John Derstine
Scale Soaring: http://www.Geocities.com/scalesoar Endless Mountain Models note new email address E-mail; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Page: http://www.geocities.com/scalesoar/EMM/rand.htm > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Knott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 4:01 AM > To: Soaring@airage. com > Subject: Re: [RCSE] tip aileron theory (was 6 servo+stylus) > > > Good full-scale practice, once centered in the thermal, is to simply check > whether the thermal has a much faster core by making tighter coordinated > turns (obviously with steeper bank angle) for a couple of turns and see if > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
