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Old 07-15-2003 | 03:12 AM
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A4HawkPilot
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Default **UPDATE**

I thought I would just update ya'll on what happened. Well, I ended up buying a hawk sport. I got everything setup and I was back into the swing of things in no time. I have been doing alot of forward flight and an occasional stall turn. I set up a 3d curve similar to the one mentioned on this thread and flew that around for a bit making adjustments here and there. Well this evening there were no more excuses for not trying aerobatics. I decided to try a loop. I switched to the 3d curve and went way up into a stall turn then came down at full bore and uuuuuup into a loop I go. Oh crap..stalls and stops at the top completely upside down but hardly falling. So I bring the stick farther back into neg. territory and up it goes. I continue pulling back and it just flips out of it. I flew around a bit after that to just slow my heart down and decided to try it again. Same thing except now I am expecting it so I just flip out of it. The third time around I decide to just stay stationary and flip it over backward. Sure enough, it looks cool as hell. I can do it! But I just can't get it to do a nice round loop. It looks like a forward moving backward flip. The pitch curve is +9,0,-9 and my throttle curve is a big V. The engine rpm seems to keep right up with the pitch and vice versa.

SO what am I doing wrong here? Its not going to stop on me if I try a roll now is it? I decided to call it a night and see what ya'll think.

Thanks!