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Old 01-21-2005 | 11:37 AM
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Default RE: Nosewheel steering thoughts........

Also, BV does not turn off the gyro on his airplanes in flight, but leaves it on. In flight, the gyro reduces the wag of the tail and the resulting dutch roll noticably - especially when its windy. The gyro makes the plane track much straighter in those conditions and thus makes it fly more realistically. A trick that many scale guys use...