ORIGINAL: selnekav
Hi
I find in very difficult for me to be able to control both rudder and slight amount of throttle on my YS-110 any small change in the Y stick movment can pull the model back to the air... do you use expo on the throttle ? or do you use switch for fast idle ?
The problem with using rudder on landing is the airplane will appear to be flying then just fall (stall) out of the air. Best to use ailerons/elevator to correct for major direction changes and save the rudder just to straighten the tail when only centimeters above the ground. Make sure to flair (nose above wing) once, centimeters above the ground before touching. Biggest mistake is dragging it in (nose high, no airspeed, using power). Unless you're doing a 3D harrier landing, leave that for the 3D planes. Nose down until 10cm's above the ground then hold it level until it settles on the ground.
As we said when training pilots for UAV's, trade altitude for airspeed on landing.