Progress (or .... activity anyway) report -

Spent nearly an hour in the air yesterday (lots of cold and wind, but heck, I wanted to FLY!) - and spent A LOT of time working on this upline snap.

I am finding that my habit of yaw cheating first comes back if I don't very consciously stop it (years of doing this for snaps where we see the profile of the fuse) - so any time I am mentally relaxed going into the upline snap, I find my plane doing a small opposite yaw first (oops - will stop that with concentration).

I can see the upline speed is the first issue - relative to the amount of control movement used for the snap - too little speed, too much control authority - WAY off line after. So the challenge for me is to keep the speed up higher that I might usually have, and to NOT use as much rudder / aileron as I might usually want.

Related question (I am putting together my new QQ102" YAK ) - in the manual for that plane, discussing rates and flight maneuvers, he (QQ) suggests using low rates on rudder for snaps? (and high rates on rudder for all other IMAC type moves) I have never thought of that - but I can now see the reason why...

Do any of you use low rates for rudder on snaps (as suggested, I mean high rates for everything except snaps)?

My rudder throws tends to be 85-90% of 3D rate all the time, meaning I really don't have a low rate - am I 'unusual' in doing this? I guess, because of slower flight speeds, rudder is a BIGger deal to me..

Cheers,
Bob