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Old 06-09-2005 | 04:09 PM
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bdavison
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Default RE: HOVERING A SHOCKY

Torque rolling is one of the more difficult maneuvers to learn. As it rolls the controls are changing.
If you are just learning to hover. Try "harrier" first.
Basically pull the nose up, and fly around with the nose at a high angle of attack, the plane should be hanging on the prop. Just do a racetrack pattern with it in a harrier first. Keep doing it, and while your doing it, keep increasing the angle of attack until you've got it just about vertical.

Once you have that down, now learn to hover. Pull the nose up, and adjust the throttle to maintain the same altitude. Use your ailerons to keep it from torque rolling. You might find that even with full right aileron, it will still want to torque roll. Thats normal. Since the plane is not in forward flight, the only thing the ailerons can deflect is propwash. So there is not much airflow for them to move.

Just try to keep it from torque rolling. This way you can practice hovering.
Once you get good hovering it with the top facing you, let it roll so that your looking at the side of the plane, and practice with it hovering like that.

Once you can hold it in a hover in any position, then your ready for torque rolling.