ORIGINAL: hugger-4641
ORIGINAL: oldvet70
Right turns for most people who fly mode 2 are more difficult, this I know from buddy boxing tons of folks. I think it comes from the fact that people 'push' the stick more precisely then they can 'pull' it. We have a club member who is an Olympic gymnastics coach and he says everyone has a direction that there body naturally rotates and that for most right handed people it is to the left and for left handed people it is to the right. Practice will solve the issue for you.
I can vouch for this as well. I've taught many people to fly who find that turning right is not as natural for them as turning left. I remember going thru the same thing when I rode BMX and motocross, I was much more confindent of my balance turning left than I was turning right. I have forced myself to fly right hand circuits enough that you probably couldn't tell any difference by watching me, but I am still more comfortable doing most manuevers when flying a left hand circuit.
Good points. I struggled with right hand turns, but now I can do pretty well with them. What I did was take some small red cones out to the airstrip and put them and both ends so I could line up well each time. I would practice right-hand circuits over and over and over again with approaching at best two - four wingspans from centerline as if doing a landing approach. When I was off centerline I would make sure I corrected mostly with rudder.
I went out just this past weekend and did a bunch of right-hand circuits to force myself to refine those right-hand turns. I think so much has to do with the downwind leg just before you start your turn and then how smooth your turn(s) are before approach.
All the right-hand turn practice has made it so much easier now and I am even practicing different types of approaches from the right side - experimenting with speed, altitude, attitude, etc. I had spent quite a bit of time practicing right turns one day that when I went to do a left-hand circuit it was almost as if it was a new manever to me. I must admit it was very strange!
Nothing beats good practice and forcing yourself to achieve goals with RC flying.