ORIGINAL: rcblimppro
Flying Tiger, as you may remember, Brians bulk of experience is with full scale. He mainly touched on what the judges wanted to see.
Shawn
Exactly. Brian, and other hardcore IAC judges often cannot grasp how much differently our planes fly compared to full size. Snaps are one of the most obvious examples. But I will agree with him on the point that for the life of me I cannot understand why a model takes 3 times more airspace to do a roller than does a full size Sukhoi!!!
But for snaps, make sure you show the nose departure in the correct direction and what the judge will perceive as autorotation and you have nothing to fret about. Remember, the key issue is that it is not important what you do or what the plane actually does. It is ALL about what the judge perceives the plane to be doing.