On really windy days (20+ mph) I love doing what I call "wind flying". You can do really fun things like "parking your plane in the air", "flying backwards", and "vertical landings". Parking your plane means to point the plane into the wind and slow down your throttle until you no foward movement at all. The speed of the wind flowing over the wings is enough to produce enough lift to keep the plane in the air. Flying backwards is the same as parking the plane but you lift the nose just a little bit and the wind will then push you backwards. A vertical landing is parking the plane over the runway and then just a little bit of down elevator to slowly lower straight down until you touch down on the runway.

On of my favorites I do with my Slow Poke. I roll down the runway for a take off. As soon as I have enough speed I'll lift up and park over the runway. I'll have no forward motion but still climb vertically to about 100' or so. Then I'll come back down and land again, without EVER moving past the end of the runway!!!!! I love doing this one!!!!

Ken