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Old 08-08-2006 | 02:32 PM
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I was flying a 120 sized plane I designed this morning, getting ready to shoot some video. One of the moves I was working on led to me screwing up the harrier chars of this plane. Here's what happened: I was doing a turnaround move i use, a stationary front flip from a low wall, back across in an inverted harrier. Problem was, I couldn't get the rotation tight enough, even though I was only blipping the throttle. So I mixed in some flaperons on a switch. So now the rotation's tight but the airplane responds way different with or without flapperons, unlike when you flip rate switch. So I wanted to see if I could do everything I was planning with the flapperons on. Upright harriers and elevators now had this big, loping rock, so the elevator looked more like it was walking down stairs. So I just changed mindset and started in with the quick corrections/anticipations you need to control wingrock and it was fine. Even though the plane flies a bit looser, I'll leave them in for the vid.