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Old 12-06-2011, 04:10 PM
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Default RE: Psychology of RC flying

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The reference to IFR is your body may be telling you one thing, as in feels like your banking, (this being the RC plane), but the instruments are telling another, (this being the sticks). You kinda see what I mean...
This is similar to what I do when R/C night flying, sometimes visual feedback isn't enough. Sometimes the lights you don't see are as important as the ones you do see. As I mentioned before, sometimes you must rely on your thumbs (stick positions) for feedback information. It's amazing our brains can take all this data in and transform it into flight!
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i remember i had to rely on my thumbs one time i lost a plane in the fog... and sure enough the plane was in the attitude my brain had predicted... this was about 15 years ago