ORIGINAL: Campgems
ORIGINAL: hugger-4641
The problem is most begginers are not aware of aerodynamic theories, fluid physics, and full scale pilot instructions. All they need to know at first is: ''Be carefull making turns downwind'', or upwind for that matter!
There seems to be another theory that is missing from this argument. Momentum. An abrupt change in wind direction or azimuth doesn't cause an abrupt change in the aircraft aerodynamics. A body in motion tends to stay in motion, and a body a rest tends to stay a rest.
A quote I saw a while back seem to apply here.
'' in theory, reality and theory are the same. In reality, they are not''
There is Theories and there is reality. You debate the theories and experience the reality.
Don
Well said.
As I mentioned in another thread about this same argument, inertia, momentum, gravity, ground speed, and air speed all play a part in flying. The thing a lot of full scale guys don't realize is that they have airspeed indicators that keep them from flying on the edge of a stall in most cases. Most full scale pilots wouldn't dare fly a Cessna in 60mph winds at just above stall speed and make a downwind turn at an altitude of 250 feet agl. But that is about equall to what an RC pilot is doing when he flies an Avistar 50 feet high in a 12mph headwind at 1/2 throttle and then makes a turn downwind.
