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Old 06-30-2003 | 11:35 PM
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Crash_N_Burn
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Default ARF for windy days

The GP Big Stick 60 is an excellent choice for windy conditions, varmit.

We have light winds in the A.M. here in Oregon but I had the chance to visit some fliers back in Wisconsin for a week earlier this month.

When the weather report says "winds, light and variable", better hold on to our hat!

We flew the GP Big Stick 60 and it was rock-solid in 25MPH winds (except at the top of a looping maneuver where it got blown downwind somewhat).

You ask the fellows from that windy area their secret for flying a plane in the wind and they all seem to say...."Just fly the plane". "Pilot errors---Wings not level, nose-up or down rather than level, etc. accentuate the wind"...."Flying in the wind makes you a better pilot".

All the flat-bottom trainers that were flown had aileron-rudder coupling and they flew almost as well.

Good choice, my friend.