Moderators ... please don;t close this thread... I am having fun here at least!
Southern Touch .... You ask me where I feel that you are giving 3D people a bad name....
You have so far said:
Our point was to let beginners know there is another side ( a brighter and better side(called 3D)).
This is patently arrogant.
Also.... rude:
The guys there thought I dreamed this up and that I was the only person in the world (besideds combatpigg) that had two definitions. Its hopeless to argue with the old timers
I am in the beginners forum, have flown for a year ... am I an old-timer.....?
And finally, contradictory:
I know this is the text book definitnion and its correct but my argument was that in the 3D funfly world we use the elevator mixed in and define it as flaperons as well
The above is contradictory because:You say the text-book definition agrees with what us old-timers have said all along ...
Then you say that you have re-defined it in the 3D world.... but, your only substantial evidence, which you support absolutely (and I agree with ...) where Chuck says:
most people commonly shorten this to just "flaperons" instead of saying "I'm running flaperons coupled to elevator with a 50% mix".
So, in Chuck's honourable opinion, the "definition" is "coupled Flapperons", which is abbreviated to "flapperons". So, you are not RE-DEFINING flapperons, you are simply saving some oxygen by not describing what you actually are accomplishing.
Finally, I did say that my post was mostly in jest... specifically because people over-react. I am a level-headed person (at least until I am inverted 10' off the deck), and enjoy debates as much as the rest.
So, on that note, you said:
I have never called anybody wrong in this discussion.
Well, if the other thread had not been closed, I am sure I cold have found something .....
...silly me, it was two paragraphs up in your post ....
All of you guys ganged up on him and said there was no such thing and nobody uses the term flapperon to mean elevator plus aileron. Well sir, you guys are wrong.
On a lighther note, I love being challenged, I never take things personally (not on the internet anyway), and really enjoy a good debate. You DID resort to childish name calling (old timer), and I have quoted where I think you (personally) have given a bad name to 3D.
I have met many 3D folk, and they ALL are great people (as you are as well, I am sure), and I am pretty keen on getting myself as competent at 3D as them. Give me some time...
TiggerNiva...
I speak English.... Men don't have one! I am an immigrant though.
Season's greatings, God bless...
gus