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Old 12-20-2006 | 08:52 PM
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Default RE: why should down mean up?


ORIGINAL: jambo101

..... i,m with the original poster about re wiring the control to exhibit a more natural response,
What's not natural about the planes we fly. In your full scale you pull back to nose up (climb), push forward to nose down (dive), move the stick to right to go right, and move the stick to the left to go left. It's EXACTLY the same thing in an RC plane. The movements of the stick to the exact thing for the RC plane. What you are referring to is what we call stick reversal, and this probably THE biggest reason why full scale pilots have difficulties when learning to fly RC. When a full scale pilot is sitting in the plane and moves the stick to the right the plane turns right, and the same for going left. Now on an RC plane flying away from you it's the same thing, stick to the right move the plane to the right which is your right. But when the plane it coming towards you the it's opposite. You move the stick right and the plane moves to its right, but now this is your left because the plane is coming towards you. This is what you referring to. But trust me, the controls for an RC plane aren't "wired backwards".

Ken