I'm not very good at 3d yet, but here is where I've been and how I plan to get there.

Last summer was my first year flying. I spent hours and hours on G2 nexstar edition learning to fly then finally it was time to fly the real thing and I forgot to plug in the aileron servo and crashed the nexstar. I then picked up a tower trainer and started reading up on setup and safety. I flew the tower trainer all summer, then when it got boring at the end of the summer I bought a twist3d with a magnum 70 FS. I set up the plane with really low rates and flew it for a couple of weeks getting used to the tail dragger and low wing. I started getting pretty comfortable with the twist so I started turning up the rates and moving the CG back.

At some point I decided that I wouldn't be able to get this 3d thing figured out unless I had a sim I could do 3d in. I was just to nervous to try real radical stuff with my twist because I didn't want to crash it. So 3 weeks ago I picked up G3 and started spending 30mins a day on the yak. Now I can hover, harrier, flat spin, knife edge, and other things.

Today I went out to try these things on the twist and knife edge was a breeze and I even got an inverted flat spin out of it. Granted it didn't look that great, but it was stalled, upside down, and falling.

Next I will start looking into rolling harriers on the sim while applying what I learned on the sim to the twist. Once I can do it all on the twist, I will probably move to a funtana 90 or something, then after that I will probably get a gasser.

Now, all that said, I am running into a few problems doing spins on my twist that some of you might be able to help me with:

1. When I get out of the throttle it takes a good second to second and a half for the plane to respond. Why is that? Do I need a faster throttle servo?

2. When I go into an inverted flatspin by pointing the airplane down then full left aileron, 2 turns, then full right rudder and down elevator, the plane gets flat for 2 spins, then the nose goes down and it starts spinning on the rudder. What do I need to do to get it to stay flat? More elevator throw?

thanks,

schu