??wise To Place Rudder\elevator On Same Chan.
 

MY QUESTION IS, IS IT A WISE IDEA TO PLACE BOTH RUDDER AND ELEVATOR ON ONE CHANNEL, I HAVE SEEN THIS GUY WHO RUNS AN RC FLIGHT SCHOOL TALKED ABOUT THAT, IS IT A WISE IDEA, PLEASE FILL ME IN ON THIS. THANKS FOR ANY INPUT.

??wise To Place Rudder\elevator On Same Chan.
 

would you suggest doing that or not on a low wing war bird??

No, its a poor idea
 

The point of coupling rudder to the aileron either by computer radio or with a 'y' cord is to minimize an effect called adverse yaw which causes a tendency particularly in climb for the nose of the airplane to point in the opposite direction of a turn. That thread is in the context of the training environment. This adverse yaw is most prevelant with high wing cabin types (trainers) and minimal with a low wing. therefore coupling is not useful and can cause some other problems with a low wing.

John :)

??wise To Place Rudder\elevator On Same Chan.
 

Mr. Buckner i definitely want to thank you for that info, i trust an expert input that is why i consult before i experiment sometimes.

rudder and elevator?
 

Is that really the question? :confused:

??wise To Place Rudder\elevator On Same Chan.
 

yes vinnie that is really the question

??wise To Place Rudder\elevator On Same Chan.
 

Rudder and elevator on the same channel won't accomplish anything but making a modern model uncontrollable. You'd be coupling your pitch and yaw controls. I can't think of why anyone would suggest that, other than for malicious reasons.

OK!
 

Well. Strobelight, the question is so bizarre that the first two replies talk about aileron/rudder not elevator/rudder. I guess those gentlemen misunderstood as well.

As MikeL says, it serves no purpose to mix elevator and rudder. What would you be hoping to accomplish?

Did you by chance mean the same STICK rather than the same CHANNEL?

No confusion here
 

It seemed obvious that ail to rud mix was what he was talking about particularly since he seemed to be referring to a commercial flight school of which there are only a few and at least one does use this method for primary. My intent was mearly to expand the reasons for the practice.

If someone replied with just a question that may possibly be construed as rude as in #6, then I may become a bit defensive also with the resultant breakdown in communications.

John

??wise To Place Rudder\elevator On Same Chan.
 

Well John maybe you could explain what is rude about #6. I merely asked if the gentlemen was really asking the right question, and he repeated that he was.

So much for being obvious.

3 channel?
 

On a 3 channel plane you've only got rudder and elevator. I find that you need to feed in a little up when you turn with the rudder.
This is on a polyhedral plane which banks quite readily in response to the rudder.

But then coupling the two together might screw things up if you needed to use the elevator on its own.... :rolleyes:

??wise To Place Rudder\elevator On Same Chan.
 

i do have information from a leaflet suggesting something to that effect, this leaflet came from a training video on flying rc, at this moment i can't find the paper, when i do i will post what it did suggest, of course this was done on a trainer, he mentioned a Y-harness, the video i believe is call something another !!! aweek to solo flight, got it from towers, i will post what it says as soon as i can find it.