ORIGINAL: Flyin Beagle

Just a quick tip. Most of you probably already know this, but I have never been very good and therefore not very comfortable with performing a wide open pass right on the deck. It seemed I was always fighting the elevator and over adjusting either too much up or too much down[:@][:@][:@]. My passes were always pretty jumpy to say the least. One of my buddies at the field on the other hand could take any of his planes 2' off the ground wide open the entire length of the runway everytime and make it look so easy. He was spotting for me on Saturday and I brought this up. I did a couple of my usual passes with the plane never really settling into a smooth nice pass and then he told me his trick. He puts 3 or 4 clicks of down elevator into his radio when he is going to do a low pass. This causes him to always be pulling a little up while doing his pass and he doesnt have to control the plane past neutral which can cause a bit of over correction. It works. The rest of the afternoon my planes were wide open and on the deck. It was great fun.