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11-11-2011 | 04:20 AM

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RE: Learning Progress to more manuvers , planes?

I appreciate all these well expressed opinions. I hadn't responded because I have been pondering and practicing more and more. I did fly the switch only once (in high wing position to start) , but one of the magnets in the motor came loose so it was grounded. The wind/weather has made it very slow to progress.

I am very stuck on inverted flight , can't seem to do very well. I can't even make a lap yet. I am practicing , but can only fly a straight and level line inverted for right now. You know one thing that I didn't think about is that I have so many planes that I'm not flying any one of them over and over (like I did when I started) I got pretty good at the little albatross because that's all I had. I got good at the flylite because I parked the albatross and that's all I flew. I have so many high wing planes that most flights are maiden or "test" flights. I have to stop that.

I think I will concentrate on the switch and maybe just a few others for now to get better and better. I'm sure I'll do better at inverted with the wing in low position and a few other planes that I have like the Cox mini extra 300 and the Flyzone corvalis.

I flew nearly every day this summer, but now the weather and daylight has limited me to fly on weekend only. Lots of wind has got me down many days too.

Here's what's in the stable right now.

4' Piper moved the CG back and can fly it pretty good.
SkyFly Max ready to fly and am pretty good with it. Best plane for me to do inverted flight and rolls.
Skyfly2 new setup, ready to test.
Switch motor repaired and ready for 2nd flight w/ high wing.
3' Piper converted to BL and ready to test.
2' Piper is overpower and hard to fly , ready for 3rd flight.
Nexstar mini , removed the trainer flaps and ready for 3rd flight.
Sensei ready to fly , pretty good at it.
Cessna 182 ready for 2nd flight, but need to straigten motor shaft.
Falcon need to move CG back and ready for 3rd flight.
Cox skyranger ready to maiden.
Cox extra 300 ready to maiden.

My 3 planes that I had the most experience on have been retired. [

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