Hey Kelly- Wayne gives good advice. He's a friend of mine and has flown at our field. I just have to get him back out there. Great flyer.

Wayne- Kelly is one of my flying buds- we just about got him out to the last contest but I am sure we'll get him out there at a contest before too long.


Since the beginning of the season I have taken the 3D rates out of all of my 40% planes- they are now set up only for IMAC. You're right on with the 140% and reducing the throws mechanically. Increases torque and resolution too.

Personally, I don't like flipping the switches around. I have conditions set up so I only have to worry about a single switch. I fly most all of my sequence on the first condition. I have another condition set up for hammers and rollers that is the same as the first cndition except for high rate rudder. That's it for me.

I have been burned a couple of times when I didn't have the right condition set up. Here's a couple of examples:

- I used to set up a condition for rollers that had very low aileron throws. After a roller, I didn't switch back and the snap in the next manuever barreled and I got a zero. So- I don't mess with the aileron throws anymore.
- At the first contest this year I still had 3D rates. Not liking lots of conditions, I had a "sequence" condition and a "3D" condition. I used the 3D condition for hammers. I went into a hammer- 1 1/2 negative snaps up, flip to condion 2 (3D) hammer with belly in, snap and half roll out. Only thing is I hammered right through the sun- lost some composure on the way down and didn't switch out of 3D rate. Spent the rest of the sequence wondering why my snaps sucked.


Dave