ORIGINAL: Stickbuilder
ORIGINAL: JPMacG
I am just finishing my Sig Pig, so I will soon have two bipes in my hangar. I love the look of biplanes and I certainly enjoy flying the GP Ultimate 40. However, I fully believe that the generalizations made in this thread are bona fide and the recommendation that a biplane is GENERALLY not a good choice as a second plane is absolutely true.
I suspect that posters who deny that a biplane presents a more confusing visual image do nothing more ambitious than fly their airplanes in rectangular traffic patterns over and over.
I choose to fly my scale bipes in a scalelike manner. I don't attempt manuvers that are not prototypical. That's what scale modelling is all about. It just so happens that my Scale Ultimate 300 also does very good manuvers that are not just flying in a rectangular box. Come on down to sunny Florida, and put your money where your mouth is.
Bill, AMA 4720
WACO Brotherhood #1
Bill, you are too sensitive. [sm=teeth_smile.gif] My previous comments were not addressed to you. I don't see that you ever challenged the idea that a biplane presents a more confusing visual image for a relatively new pilot. I do think that, for a beginner, orientation is more challenging with a biplane than with a monoplane. I think those who want to argue this point are simply wrong and are providing bad advice.
I love to watch scale flight and have no problem with it at all. Thanks for the invitation to come to sunny Florida. I would love to but I am still working and raising a family. My spare time is limited to a few hours per week, which on a good week I spend flying. You're welcome to come up to Pennsylvania. Bucks County is beautiful in the spring. There are some nice flying fields in the area.