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Old 07-09-2015, 06:02 AM
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learn2turn
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Default How about just one horizontal roll?

I read the three-roll thread and that started me thinking about me trying to keep my one horizontal roll in line when flying Sportsman.

My Monolog-70 tracks straight in rolls with little if any extra input from elevator or rudder. The thing has so much side area it tracks straight very well. (It's not so good in loop maneuvers but that may be because it's a tad heavy for its power).

My EFlite Splendor (which does almost everything else better) is hard to keep straight in rolls.

I've tried to time rudder right, down elevator, rudder left to keep it straight. Do you think that is doing to much and I should just pop a tad of down elevator?

I would think if just elevator was used without rudder, since the down elevator wouldn't exist only during the exact moment of being inverted. I know sometimes when I pop a tad of down elevator into the inverted portion of the roll and leave it in too long, that definitely throws me off track.

-l2t aka Ken