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Old 02-09-2006 | 09:12 AM
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Default RE: Ballooning Thunder Tiger Trainer

Trainers are basically made to do that. Its a safety thing, if the plane is ine trouble, hit the throttle and it will climb! This gets the plane higher than the ground and hopefully there is nothing in the air to hit such as tall trees. Unfortunately this also results in the plane ballooning in fast turns or when gusts hit the plane on landing. You will learn to get control of the ballooning in the turns and all you need is to get more stick time for that. Thats why most clubs prefer to train new flyers when the winds are fairly light. It also is why once you are able to handle the faster speeds of the low wing planes with semi. sym. wings you don't want to go back. They handle the wind much better and don't jump up in the air if a wind gust hits it, unless its really windy and then they just slow down. [8D]