ORIGINAL: dick Hanson
I flew a new ARF the other day, in very grey overcast , with light fog .
There were several other models there - which had high contrast color schemes.
They were easy to follow.
The ARF we flew, had a striking scheme, which had one dark wing panel and the other panel ended in white.
In the air it was apparant that the white panel simply could not be seen.
The model looked like one panel was sawed off!
I have never had this type of color setup and was really surprised at how it affected attitude recognition.
In perfect flying weather -this problem would not amount to much but if you fly in less than perfect skies, you may want to keep the color contrast such that the wing panels look the same when in the air -at more than 100ft distance..
First time I flew in low lighting I just ended up landing pretty fast!!! White and blues etc are not good for low lighting at all. What FUBAR ONE has is great, I found from seeing many planes that YELLOW is one of the great colours. On a clear blue sky the contrast is stark and the plane's outline CRISP!
My advice is for you to go to the gas powered car forum and see the nice FLORESCENT colours that they use! Heheheeeee ... that would be great ...
