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Old 01-10-2012 | 11:20 PM
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Zor
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Default RE: adding weight?


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Heavier weight might help because it has greater inertia. But for vertical performance, you want the plane to be lighter. For windy condtions, an aerodynamically streamlined airplane is better than a heavy plane.
An aerodynamically streamlined airplane may fly faster or may need less thrust for a given speed but it has nothing to do with its response to turbulent atmosphere.

The turbulence action is to affect the momentary angle of attack varying the lift and the drag.
A heavier machine will not be affected as much due to its higher inertia.

It will need less control action from the pilot and so is easier to fly.

We have to differentiate between the two main types of pilots.
Those who fly by constantly correcting what the model does and those who tell the model what they want it to do. In the first type mentioned the correction will be slower with a heavier machine (every thing else being identical). The second type of pilot mentioned will anticipate what they want and control the model accordingly.

Ask yourself ___what type of pilot are you?

If you are constantly moving the transmitter sticks, just tearing holes in the sky then it is not likely to make much difference what the model wing loading is. It might not even be important that the model is balanced or not as long as you have more thrust then weight and huge control surface areas.

I recently was watching a fellow flying and his pattern was straight up, reverse to a dive fly the bottomof a U and straight up again. He kept doing that for about 5 minutes. I then noticed that his buddy landed the plane.

In such flying conditions, who cares about wing loading or balanced model?

I am getting out of this discussion.I have nothing more to contribute than what I already said.

Cheers,

Zor