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Old 04-15-2012 | 10:35 AM
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Default RE: question about prop?

ORIGINAL: Bozarth
Fly a trainer slow enough on final and you will need more than idle. Full scale pilots learn early on pitch/power settings and the resulting airspeeds and descent/ascent rates.

Kurt
There is a lot of difference between an RC model and full scale and a trainer with a newbie. Prop has a lot to do with the landing, especially since we fly fixed pitch like many small private full scales do. Flying "....slow enough on final ... is a technique that most initial beginners don't really yet have the proficency to even recognize, much less accomplish. Besides what beginner is going to be retrimming while learning to fly?

Since you - on your profile claim to be an EXPERT Pilot and I would never question such, you just might expect a tad too much from the beginner. People that are really naturals in any endeavor seem to have less understanding of those that are less than "automatic" in a skill being learned. Having instructed in USAF T-33, T-38, and in Navigation and Bombardment, SAC B-47, I agree with those scholars that state such. I was good but not a natural. I had to WORK to stay at the upper levels.

In my navigator school, 30 started, 14 finished, I was 2nd. In my Pilot Training class, 28 started, 14 finished, I was 1st in flying but 4th overall as the physical training found me wanting, like REALLY wanting. As an RC Instructor, I demand a bit more proficiency than most, yet those I solo know how to fly, and the Safety precautions, but they are not then 3D pilots.

As far as "Full scale pilots..." maybe I dropped a ball here and there. Almost 20,000 hours, including a couple years in a C-123 with R-2800s, maybe I never learned what your full scale learned. However I survived 41 years of it. I still stick to it that a low pitch prop is much easier to land an RC model with than a high pitch. Student RC pilots don't have to be able to land out of a tight inside loop over the runway. I don't have to, but I like to!