SquirlNutZipper

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Just curious on how we act when flying.

When I was new I would twitch my body all over the place trying to control the plane. Now that I've progressed I've been told I enter this trance like state and have even hummed while flying these tiny little specs in the sky at speeds of 70-120mph. Almost like I enter a moment of ZEN.

What's your experiences?

Cheers,

Alex

skaliwag

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I grit my teeth and ingest my under-wear at those speeds..... And the Tx takes on a whole new "Ergenomic" shape.

BuzzBomber

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Usually, my experience with "zen" flying includes my plane becoming one with the Earth. It happens all too often...

JasonFalls

LOL!!!!

proptop

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I like to "become one with the airplane"...

Remember in Caddyshack, when Chevy Chase is telling the kid (forgot his name ) to "be the ball"
nananana babababababa mamamamama hahahaha

flyinrog

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YOU twitch? Ha I look I'm fly fishing out there as soon as anything goes wrong[X(]...Rog

Toad

Durring a race, I am petrified, dont move, while spouting explitives as my tx antenae quivers...ok it looks like the needle on one of them sizmograph things during a quake. I love it.

Toad

never had a 1/2a size go 120mph though, I bet that is a rush. my best ones I think are right around 100mph
any pictures of the faster ones?

rainedave

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Picture someone playing a pinball machine. Body English is an art.

KidEpoxy

If you dont point the antenna, how is the plane supposed to know where to go?

digital_trucker

Body english is important, but how you hold your mouth is critical - along with sudden intakes of breath between your clenched teeth.

proptop

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The tongue sticking out the corner of your mouth is important for telling wind direction too![sm=tongue_smile.gif]


We have one guy who whips the antenna around so fast, that one time, it snapped off...[X(]
The end results were quite predictable!

combatpigg

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I would like to see 130, also. The time has come to set up a speed trap and see what the GZ .061 speed plane and what a couple of Fora powered planes can do. Over a sustained straight away with no dive is the way some think it should be done, but I go along with the European SpeedCup method, where the plane is allowed to come out of a steep dive, then level out before coming in the timing zone. The timing zone could be 1/8 mile, which is a long way for an oversquare propped 1/2A plane to go.

SquirlNutZipper

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That was my old shrike which met it's demise during one of those power dives.

The Stryker and Eight-Ball are my fastest planes now. The Omei is not so quick, It's also a 2m and not 1/2a but is graceful in flight.

My really fast one will be the 1913 Eastbourne I'm building. She should be screaming along at a breakneck speed of 10-15mph.

soarrich

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When flying sailplanes I tend to circle the same direction as the sailplane. With power planes I'm IN it, some times I think I can feel the Gees on a pullout, that sounds odd but I really do feel like I'm in it.

ptulmer

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Well, at ~120mph with an 18" delta I tend to curse like a sailor... And so did everybody else at the field.[&:]

CP, I'd be interested in knowing how fast the GZSWR was using the setup I was using. The Blink with the KB you fixed up for me was a bit faster!

MJD

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I squint a lot and tap my foot, and about ten seconds into every flight I inevitably have to pee

MJD

Japanman

I have found that in moments of difficulty (e.g the plane is on the verge of stalling, is in a strong cross wind, the engine is barely running, and is 4 feet off the ground...) calling out to the plane can help.

Try simply commands like: Pull up! pull up!!

or Turn ! turn !

Also climb! CLIMB!! seems to get a responce about half the time.

It is amazing how seemingly inanimate objects can respond to voice commands.


Stefan

SquirlNutZipper

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This thread is a great comic relief.

To be honest, when shrike2 hit the dirt I had the most un-Zen like moment and I believe the big O.S. was pronounced pretty loud.

I've never in my life been able to create a divot as large while golfing.

BuzzBomber

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When my plane is not busy becoming one with the Earth, I do have a little routine. I tend to do a sorta little dance step thingy or something like that. It usually starts off because I handlaunch the smaller stuff, then try to negotiate my way back to the pilots' stations from the launch area without taking my eyes off the plane or tripping over the safety fence, other pilots, wayward children, etc. Kind of like this: LAUNCH - A little step back, whoops, there's the fence, ok now forward, a little to the side, now back. Okay, I'm behind the fence, now to the side, now forward a little, DANGIT my antennas caught in the fence mesh! now back, carefully, okay now we're set, and......deadstick!

Wufnu

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I actually think that's pretty close to how I fly. Zen, that is. I dunno, I just watch the plane and it dances across the sky. I don't have to think about the controls or anything, it just does what I want it to. I've had a few guys at the field tell me that I'm crazy because most of my planes are the same color on top and bottom, particularly my flying wings. "I don't think about it."

KidEpoxy

I usually yell out while the plane floats over the threshold floats past 75% of the landing strip,
"Oh, Come On! Slow down already!" "Land Dammit!"
but my plane wont listen

build light

Ah yes the voice commands! Especially for the deadstick landings when we call for more altitude in one breath then as we overshoot the landing area yell to get down already all the time knowing that just a little down ele. would do the trick. I said a little. Only a little. Yet we hold staedy or even feed in some up before the plane has bled off enough airspeed and now we have a plane headed to the next county! We need brakes! Pulling hard back on the transmitter like we were setting a hook in a fish.

Heh! I don't feel so terribly bad. I watch the kids gyrate all over the place playing with the video games. They are as bad or worse than we are.

Robert

Bipe Flyer

To me, it seems like I can actually feel the weight of the plane in the sticks. A heavy plane barely lumbering around feels heavy on the sticks and a floater feels light. Even the sloppiness in the controls seems to make the sticks feel tighter or looser. Does that make any sense?

Wufnu

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Yes.

I'm reminded of last winter when dad said, "How can you fly when it's this cold out?"

"I don't need to feel the sticks, just the plane!"