When the radio does it and not you. What do you think?
07-21-2008, 06:51 AM
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I have been playing with these things now for over 40 years and I for one am so happy for all the advancements through the years that mainly was driven by the TOC. Many of you have not had the displeaser of setting up an airplane without not even reverse capability and even in the best tuned airframe in many cases still had roll and pitch coupling issues. why would anyone not want to program out coupling.
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07-21-2008, 06:39 PM
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RE: When the radio does it and not you. What do you think?
I realized that I left out a piece of info that might explain a few things. The guy I learned from a lot of times never worried if it was trimmed out or not. And he never used any mixes as far as I know. He just held in the needed corrections as he flew. I picked up on that and started doing the same. But I did use trims a lot more often than he did.
07-21-2008, 10:02 PM
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Personally without my 14MZ I'd never be able to take off. Maybe one day I can program it to make right turns as well as left.
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RE: When the radio does it and not you. What do you think?
ORIGINAL: Hammbone
Our models are much harder to fly than full scale planes. In a full scale plane right is always right and left is always left, this is not so with our models. In a full scale, you always have the same perspective of the plane, this is not so with our models.
Having these features with a computer radio helps us fly our models better.
Should you use a computer radio? That's up to you. I would hope you participate in this hobby to have fun. Is it fun to fly with a computer radio? I think it is. Use what you want to use.
Jim
Our models are much harder to fly than full scale planes. In a full scale plane right is always right and left is always left, this is not so with our models. In a full scale, you always have the same perspective of the plane, this is not so with our models.
Having these features with a computer radio helps us fly our models better.
Should you use a computer radio? That's up to you. I would hope you participate in this hobby to have fun. Is it fun to fly with a computer radio? I think it is. Use what you want to use.
Jim
04-29-2010, 03:19 PM
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RE: When the radio does it and not you. What do you think?
Ok, you want a funny then:
While sports fishing off the Florida coast, a tourist capsized his boat. He could swim, but his fear of alligators kept him clinging to the overturned craft. Spotting and old beachcomber standing on the shore, the tourist shouted,"Are there any gators around here?!"
"Naw," the man hollered back, "they ain't been around for years!"
"Feeling safe, the tourist started swimming leisurely toward the shore.
About halfway there he asked the guy,"How'd you get rid of the gators?"
"We didn't do nothin'," the beachcomber said.
"The sharks got 'em."
While sports fishing off the Florida coast, a tourist capsized his boat. He could swim, but his fear of alligators kept him clinging to the overturned craft. Spotting and old beachcomber standing on the shore, the tourist shouted,"Are there any gators around here?!"
"Naw," the man hollered back, "they ain't been around for years!"
"Feeling safe, the tourist started swimming leisurely toward the shore.
About halfway there he asked the guy,"How'd you get rid of the gators?"
"We didn't do nothin'," the beachcomber said.
"The sharks got 'em."
04-29-2010, 04:07 PM
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RE: When the radio does it and not you. What do you think?
Personally, i don't think there's a single bit of difference in one technology to another. The PILOT is the person who evaluates EVERY available resource and tool at his/her disposal, and then chooses how best to use them to make the airplane do what (s)he wants it to do,
Is an F-15 pilot somehow "less" of a pilot because he used a more advanced radar than the F-4 had to find and destroy an enemy?
Is a 737 pilot "less" of a pilot than the guy who flew the DC3, because computers direct the control surfaces in response to his inputs?
Apollo capsules splashed down after following ENTIRE FLIGHT REGIMES controlled by a computer. Are you somehow suggesting that the guys in charge of those birds weren't pilots? Pretty clearly Jim Lovell was.
I think it is, and should be, PILOT'S choice. If you wish to guide your airplane through a particular maneuver using manual inputs, while I prefer to do so doing computer guided inputs, neither of us is more or less of a pilot than the other. We are both using available resources to direct an airplane to do what we want...the fact that one of those resources is a computer doesn't change that.
04-29-2010, 08:19 PM
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RE: When the radio does it and not you. What do you think?
Lets also add in the fact that it takes a skilled pilot to actually trim a plane properly and set up the rates, expo, and throws accordingly.
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ORIGINAL: IFlyEm35
I fly an Airbus. Guess I'm not a pilot at all.
I fly an Airbus. Guess I'm not a pilot at all.
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