Originally Posted by
r ward
I understand,.....no-one wants to invest and crash that investment, but that said,....it is an inevitable part of the hobby,... and all hobbies or sports have their bad spots !. the bad part of "flying a circuit board" is that mistakes are made and the correction is never learned because the mistakes has be electronically compensated for. pretty soon all you'll need on your Tx box is one stick for left and right and up and down and a button that says "FLY" and a button that says "LAND".
stability programs have their place as a safety net, of course, the bad thing about them is that most people refuse to wean themselves off that safety net and still think they "know how to fly an R/C plane". ironically, it is the very issues that the programs compensate for, that is the substance of really knowing how to fly an R/C plane.
Agreed 100%. The person I was referring to learned to fly with wing stabilisation. This would return the wing to level with no input and would limit the amount of bank.
So when they flew without, (1) they had no concept of having to bank the opposite way to return to level flight (2) and worse they had been whacking the sticks over full and getting nice gentle turns because of the limiter. You can imagine what the flying was like when the stabiliser was removed.
Cheers,
Nigel