The Trainer Tray
THE battered Falcon barely missed the trees, swerved back toward the runway and plunged into the weeds. With thousands of hours in the cockpit of everything from Super Cubs to Super Sabers. I could easily identify each wrong move made during my landing attempt. But that, sports fans, seems to be the only transfer of learning from cockpit to Kraft. However, the notion that "time in the cockpit has gotta help in learning RC" persisted. After all, RC flying and piloting are both time-stressed perceptual motor skills. The aerodynamics of models and DPVs (Directly Piloted Vehicles) are identical, and nowadays even the controls are essentially the same. Both RC fliers and pilots depend on secondary cues to determine aircraft performance: that is, since you can't see the airflow around the aircraft you must indirectly determine what it's doing. And finally the emotional content of both activities seems to be remarkably similar.
