How to keep TR's in front of you
 

I've got my TR's down now, but how I do I keep them in front of me on a breezy day? I drift down wind like a kite TR'ing the whole way. :)

RE: How to keep TR's in front of you
 

I usually have to TR at an angle, into the wind, almost like a rolling harrier, but stationary... its a good bit harder than a regular tr if you ask me, and once you get so much wind, you're pretty much doing a full on rolling harrier, or drifting like a kite

RE: How to keep TR's in front of you
 

I'll try angling into the wind a bit next time.

Thanks,

RE: How to keep TR's in front of you
 

when there's wind, there's usually TRing going down the field, or hovering onto the wind, like a stationary really high alpha harrier

I was flying at the local fun fly today, and it was blowin 10 to 15, gusts to 40, and it was either a harrier at only a like 30 degree angle, or going all the way down the field and only spinning around once in a tork roll

If you can keep up with it, you can also just correct for wind, but it might not do the roll part

RE: How to keep TR's in front of you
 

You can use some right aileron to slow down your TR. That makes it easier to keep ahead of it all.

You pretty much have to use all the controls to keep it in one place. Rudder is a big part of it.

I tried a TR once in a 40MPH wind. It looked more like a stationary aileron roll. The tail was pretty much straight out behind the plane. I held it in place, but it didn't look anything like a TR.

RE: How to keep TR's in front of you
 

If you have little to no wind you can keep it torque rolling in front of you. If there is a breeze or wind and you want to actually torque roll then you have to let it flow with the breeze otherwize it will no longer be in a perfectly vertical attitude (and no longer be a torque roll IMO). I actually like how it looks just torque rolling and going down the runway, looks cool.

RE: How to keep TR's in front of you
 

Thanks guys, sounds like I'm pretty much doing everything I can. When it 's blowing 15 to 20 out, I pretty much harrier around, pull up to a TR, then let it blow me down the runway while TR'ing. Gotta really work the elevators on those to keep the tail under the plane. I'll try working the ailerons to slow the TR down a bit. Up till now, I've never done that. My stick movements are becoming more automatic now and I really don't have to concentrate on any one control surface.

RE: How to keep TR's in front of you
 

i have the same prob with my foamie. best solution i have found: wait till there's no wind. practice other manouvres that wind can help with, in my case harriers. i sort of have them down.