Mastering the Loop
Dave Scott's "Mastering the Loop" emphasizes proactive flying techniques for performing exceptional loops. It advocates for wings-level entries and consistent elevator control to minimize corrections, enhancing maneuver effectiveness. The article details loop fundamentals, intermediate adjustments for roundness, and crosswind rudder corrections, encouraging pilots to focus on basics before refining maneuvers.
Control Setup Methodology
Dave Scott's article outlines essential airplane setup methodologies, emphasizing simple rules of thumb for RC pilots to enhance performance. Key topics include balancing the model for optimal handling, adjusting engine thrust to counteract propwash, and ensuring balanced control responses. The article advises on control surface travel, mixing techniques to minimize adverse yaw, and the importance of developing flying skills over complex radio programming.
Ground School: Hover Training, Part 2 - 2015/04
Part one of this hover training series (December 2014 issue) detailed all of the control techniques required to maintain a stationary hover. This issue’s article builds on that knowledge by applying the crawl-walk-run approach to learning how to hover in the shortest amount of time.
Ground School
As the saying goes, some of the most rewarding activities are often the most challenging, and learning to fly helicopters often fits into that category. Indeed, merely hovering a helicopter has been compared to trying to balance a marble on top of a bowling ball, so those who become successful heli pilots have something to be proud of.
MASTERING THE IMMELMANN AND CUBAN 8
As soon as a pilot has become proficient performing loops and rolls, the different ways that loop and roll elements can be combined are practically infinite. This article applies the timeless efficiency of the crawl-walk-run process to the Immelmann turnaround and the Cuban 8.
