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Old 02-14-2011 | 04:49 PM
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Default How's This for Formation Flying?

It was unseasonably warm in my neck of the woods this weekend, so me and a couple of buddies took our Bandits out for a few laps. We practiced flying in formation. How'd we do our first time out?
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Old 02-14-2011 | 04:51 PM
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Nice Photoshop job

You wish
Old 02-14-2011 | 04:52 PM
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Old 02-14-2011 | 04:53 PM
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Nice try... But your Photoshop expertise could use some help. Take a closer look at the horizontal stab training edges....


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nice pic though
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lets see the rest of the video......
Old 02-14-2011 | 07:26 PM
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Sure Hope You Fly
Better than you LIE!
Old 02-14-2011 | 07:56 PM
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A little rough around the edges
Old 02-15-2011 | 12:13 AM
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Nice job - but you should make each plane behind the first a little
smaller in edit...
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2 and 3 are a bit acute. Each should be just a touch aft of where you put them.

But then again, that would only be true for cockpit based visual cues vs ground based visual cues......

I sure hope this doesn't launch the downwind turn myth again.
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OK, I'll come clean. It wasn't really me and two buddies. I bound one transmitter to three jets!
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Its obvious that the second jet is turning downwind compared to the rest....

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