All good points on rudder control.

Here are some of my thoughts about rudder control. It is the least taught input in the control of an airplane when students are learning to fly. My son has recently taken up learning to fly R/C and I realized this almost right away when we were on the buddy box. Guys where coming up to him and saying just leave the left stick alone and concentrate on the aileron and elevator. NOT a good idea. Then I got my foamie bi-plane together and he wanted to fly it. So out came the buddy cord and off to the parking lot we went. This foamie airplane requires use of the rudder to initiate the turns. Rolling and yanking on the elevator does not make it turn. So he had to learn the rudder real fast and he picked up very quick doing flat rudder turns and stall turns left and right. So we transfered this thought proccess to the full size trainer and I started making him turn the trainer with rudder which it will do quite well. He also has learned to fly upside down with the foamie and he quickly realized the rudder works the oppisite direction and quickly figured it out to just move the tail(rudder stick) in the same direction. These foamies are great as teaching aids and I dont have to worry about hundreds of dollars of equipment getting busted up if an incident were to occur. It has helped my rudder control also.

Sorry to get off the subject.

This is something to concider when training at in the early stages of R/C flying.

Wayne Galligan