ORIGINAL: sensei
ORIGINAL: abufletcher
ORIGINAL: otrcman
Thanks, Lee. An excellent example of one of the changes we make when we scale down and R/C an airplane like a DRI. Flying a full scale Triplane is much closer to what you experienced without the centering spring in your transmitter.
But this really isn't a ''scaling problem'' at all. It's a problem of using different technology on the model than is used on the full-scale. On the other hand, I agree completely the Lee that the technology of our transmitters makes our job a lot easier. The self-centering is a good example as is the availability of trim, not to mention such exotic computer features as mixing and throttle curves.
Are you stating that the size of the model has no real effect on flight realism, and the real problem is all because of the use of a different technology in models versus full scale?
Bob
No, that's not what I'm saying at all. I said that the transmitter problem Lee mention is NOT an affect of scaling. It has nothing to do with model aerodynamics. This is a matter of using RC technology vs. a pilot's hand on a joystick. So if we were to fit "auto-centering" technology in an actual aircraft, it wouldn't be much different from the auto-centering on our RC transmitters.
I fully accept that air molecules don't scale. But I'm not really interested in that. My main point throughout this thread has been that (accurate) scale models of different aircraft fly differently from one another. In other words, a model DrI doesn't fly like a model Pup...and that's a good thing. And therefore flying a model of the DrI can give me some small measure of feeling for what it was like to fly a DrI. Enlarging the rudder on a DrI model DOESN'T make it fly more like a full-scale DrI. It just makes the model easier to control on the ground for the Sunday fliers. This is the sort of re-engineering I object to.