I just have to say that learning to fly on a 3 Channel makes you

more aware of the Rudder and what it does. Being that is your

main contoll of the plane beside elevator. I was taught from a

old timer on a Kadet Sr. 3 Channel and flew it for a year. A lot

of my buddies in the club told me why bother on a 3 chanell but

I did it anyway. Its made me very aware now of the differance

between aileron and rudder. We had 4 training pilots in our club

crash their planes in the past due to misunderstading of ailerons

and rudder. Tip stalls on final Crosswind take offs ETC. My point

is it helped me. 6planes later Flying smooth and understanding

how I was trained ....... Happy Flying

for me rudder is the way to go, not always but when the time comes, rudder is the only choice. Like in crosswind landings or take offs, you need to use the rudder, there is no way about it.

While other people stay grounded because the cross wind is too strong to take off or land, I have a flying field for my self, when the chairs start flying then I ground my self.

I just learned to fly a couple months ago, and I'm glad I learned to use every single control surface available to me.

There is nothing more fullfiling after a great fly than a great landing, at slow speed you have to be very careful with the ailerons, the rudder is one of the last control surfaces to stall.

Slip, skit, etc, etc, is a matter of rudder.

One of the best periods I ever had flying was a springtime when there were consistently windy days for weeks. Nobody would fly except for me and another guy. We flew trainers - planes without a lot of sentimental value attached.....

Whoa, what fun! Since nobody else was there, we'd get the planes down any way we could - 'cross the runway, backwards into a headwind, you name it. It taught us a lot about flying - we'd stop flying when the planes would get blown - when they were upside down on the ground

Done that, been there; people chicken when it's windy or they have too much cross wind.

David,

Having never flown glo, why would landing with a 30 be any more difficult than laning a 60?

Smaller planes tend to be twitchy compared to larger planes. Things happen faster as well, so you go from OK to tip-stall or inverted faster with a smaller plane. They also tend to be affected by wind gusts more than larger planes.

And since the plane is smaller, it's a bit harder to see when flown farther out. So it's natural to fly it closer in. But the stall speed isn't much slower (if any slower at all) than a larger plane, so you go from "too far away" to over the runway faster, leaving you less time to figure out your landing approach.

All this is really general. There are exceptions. A lot of this is actually due to the fact that the "standard" .25-.30 size plane is really smaller than it should be, and has a wingloading that is higher than it needs to be.

Flying my 20 size GP Taylor Craft w a 30 satio has made me a better pilot of everthing, 25lb warbirds included

use yoru rudder as much as you want. that's what it is there fore