Hy Hixx.....JR is on the phone for you here.....can you take the call? <in joke>

Good one Hixx. I hadn't heard that acronym before. Commonly used over here is "Stick to the Low Wing", which quickly becomes instinctual and doesn't require any processig more significant than mere wakefulness. Both effect the same result, and work whether the flyer is mode 1 or 2, and the model is tracking toward or heading away from the stud.

That said, whilst such training a tool can serve a useful purpose, in my observation, it can disserve another. When the stud becomes disorientated and distracted trying to remember and action that memory jogger if he hasn't rote learnt and reinforced it though practise as many are wont not to, even for a few moments, he has to think about it and inaction occurs. The situation changes and he often again becomes indecisive, increasing his anxiety, afraid of inputting a wrong action for a multitude of reasons which can range from just fear of crashing through compounded by not wanting to (in his mind and perception) look stupid to the world nor demonstrate (again in his mind) 'incompetence' to the instructor.

Unless a stud is having extraordinary difficulty, I prefer to let him take immediate action and input instinctively without thought or recitation of the acronym, and of course, without fear of rebuke or in flight criticism. This is advantageous to the learning process because even if he inputs incorrectly, he is immediately visually prompted, and learns that he will be visually promoted, that it can be corrected by reciprocal opposite input. When he sees this in effect, two things observably occur. (a) His confidence in his ability to be "in control no matter what!" increases displacing apprehension, nervousness and fear; and, (b) when he inputs incorrect input in future, he instinctively and immediately inputs AN action action. This is extremely important in both RC and real aviation. Inaction through either indecisiveness or fear are worse tyrants than inputting an erroneous input which can immediately be seen and redressed to a corrective one.

"Nose in, Tail away" is another common one used over here to assist a pilot to correct track so it remains parallel to the strip and his pilot position. Again, regardless of mode or transit port to starboard or starboard to port. Not quite a word associative acronym, although NITA could be associated with "a neater way of doing things", needs to be rote learnt. Can be of assistance.

Were you ever taught to conduct any sort of rudimentary pre take-off check?' There apears to be an entrenched attitudinal anathema against using even the simplest one over here (eg: CATS). Somewhat of a simplistic insult in comparison with even the briefest checklists required even in GA sport aviation, I teach it anyway to those interested in preventing themselves from taking off with wrong model selected, incorrectly plugged in aileron servos, aerials down or trims out of wack or incorrect rates selected, all and any of which can be terminal. Take 10 seconds, can be done on the run during taxi or immediately after start for those prefecrring to carry their model to the holding point or strip.