RE: Most Skill Required To Fly Well?
 

the barrel type geebee models need to be on this list.. the landings are usually dead on, or just plane DEAD!

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RE: Most Skill Required To Fly Well?
 

Yup, the Gee Bee gets my vote....

RE: Most Skill Required To Fly Well?
 

If you think warbirds with wing mounted under-carriages are bad you should try one with fuselage mounted landing gear, like a Wildcat. Even narrower wheelbase.

I'd vote for a scale proportioned Sopwith Camel or GeeBee R-1 for the hardest to land in varying conditions.

RE: Most Skill Required To Fly Well?
 

Agreed,

I would also add most WW1 war birds not just the Camel.

Cheers,

Colin

RE: Most Skill Required To Fly Well?
 

The small planes. I have a Gravity hobbies Spitfire(used to be Cox) that weighs 4.2 oz even though it probably lands at 5 mph that is really fast for such a tiny plane. A wind gust will toss the plane around like newspaper. Inverted flight on a flat bottom wing with a lot of dihedral can be a challenge. But if you can do some things on a trainer you can do them on anything.-BW

RE: Most Skill Required To Fly Well?
 

I think flying is a learned skill for the majority of us and built-in for a "chosen" few.

Remember in lower grades in school, we used to always find the home-work difficult. As we advanced to higher grades, the home-work for that grade was still tough. But when we return to that now, we find it quite easy. It is similar with flying. Whatever you are flying now is always difficult. But if you move to a more difficult aircraft or move to higher throws, you will find the earlier settings or plane easy to fly. I am seeing the problem with me on the Reactor. Due to a break of a couple of months off, I am having again to go the low throws to be able to handle it

Ameyam