Cap 232
03-09-2008 | 03:10 PM
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Cap 232
Have been flying the art tech cap 232 for a bit just getting used to it no aerobatics yet! Im sometimes having issues working out which why it is flying, not sure how to improve this, would changing the colour help from the top and bottom of the wing. Or is it just a light issue . It only really happens when banking
03-11-2008 | 07:50 PM
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Hi Faz,
I guess you know you haven't picked a beginner's plane so I wont labour that point, but it is part of the reason you are having difficulty.
Orientation is a word we use to describe a whole lot of complex things that our mind does. People do all sorts of fancy paint jobs, taping patterns etc to improve the orientation of their model, but by far the best technique is "concentrate".
I'm not trying to be clever, or flippant - I'm serious.
You can try all sorts of elaborate colour schemes but the best way to keep your bird safe is focus on what she is doing, think about the commands you give her, and then think about what she is now doing.
Having difficulty getting orientation for a new flyer is rarely about vision - it is usually about knowledge/experience, and training your brain to think quickly enough to realise what is going on, and when in jeopardy, take the correct action. Experienced flyers don't get orientation by looking for markings - instead they:
1. Rarely loose orientation because they are thinking ahead of the plane (this input will make the plane roll to inverted etc).
2. When they do loose orientation, they regain it not by looking at markings, but looking at the shape of the aircraft, and how it is flying (an inverted plane flys very differently to one the correct way up - aerobats don't unfortunately - making your life harder).
3. Don't let the plane get so far away that vision becomes an issue.
Just on that point - vision. When an object is far enough away you loose your ability to perceive colours and see the shape definitively. The only good strategy for maintaining orientation at distance is to keep that distance under control. And the only way to do that is to think ahead of the aircraft. If by chance that fails and the aircraft does get too far away, then guess what the only thing that will save your aircraft is - yep 1. Because you were focusing on what it was doing, you can probably make the correct inputs to bring her back. The forums are have many stories of pilots that lost visual track of their aircraft due to rapidly fading light but managed to bring them home by executing the inputs they knew should turn her around, locking in by engine noise until the aircraft came back to visual range.
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Good luck with it. If you find it too much trouble don't be too proud to step back to a slower less agile aircraft.
Cheers,
Oz.
I guess you know you haven't picked a beginner's plane so I wont labour that point, but it is part of the reason you are having difficulty.
Orientation is a word we use to describe a whole lot of complex things that our mind does. People do all sorts of fancy paint jobs, taping patterns etc to improve the orientation of their model, but by far the best technique is "concentrate".
I'm not trying to be clever, or flippant - I'm serious.
You can try all sorts of elaborate colour schemes but the best way to keep your bird safe is focus on what she is doing, think about the commands you give her, and then think about what she is now doing.
Having difficulty getting orientation for a new flyer is rarely about vision - it is usually about knowledge/experience, and training your brain to think quickly enough to realise what is going on, and when in jeopardy, take the correct action. Experienced flyers don't get orientation by looking for markings - instead they:
1. Rarely loose orientation because they are thinking ahead of the plane (this input will make the plane roll to inverted etc).
2. When they do loose orientation, they regain it not by looking at markings, but looking at the shape of the aircraft, and how it is flying (an inverted plane flys very differently to one the correct way up - aerobats don't unfortunately - making your life harder).
3. Don't let the plane get so far away that vision becomes an issue.
Just on that point - vision. When an object is far enough away you loose your ability to perceive colours and see the shape definitively. The only good strategy for maintaining orientation at distance is to keep that distance under control. And the only way to do that is to think ahead of the aircraft. If by chance that fails and the aircraft does get too far away, then guess what the only thing that will save your aircraft is - yep 1. Because you were focusing on what it was doing, you can probably make the correct inputs to bring her back. The forums are have many stories of pilots that lost visual track of their aircraft due to rapidly fading light but managed to bring them home by executing the inputs they knew should turn her around, locking in by engine noise until the aircraft came back to visual range.
</rant>
Good luck with it. If you find it too much trouble don't be too proud to step back to a slower less agile aircraft.
Cheers,
Oz.
