Radio Control Scale Aerobatics-2004/11
WHEN YOU’RE OUT at the field flying, sometimes it’s nice to
know that you can find a fellow modeler who is knowledgeable and
willing to give you reliable advice. That’s why the people in the team
shirts are there. When you see other modelers wear team shirts, that’s
your invitation to ask them questions and discuss the products they
support. They are sponsored because of their ability and willingness to
help, along with a desire to promote the products they believe in.
Radio Control Scale Aerobatics-2004/12
ONE OF THE most difficult steps in becoming a skilled pilot is
mastering rudder control. If getting the left thumb to even move
horizontally isn’t hard enough, you also have to understand
orientation of the rudder in reference to the airplane’s attitude.
Every time you make a turn or a roll, the darn thing swaps
direction on you!
Giant Scale Aerobatic ARF Building Tips - 2005/05
BUILDING A GIANT Scale aerobatic
model from a kit can take upward of 300
hours from the time you first open the box.
What if you could use the last 10% of that
time—say, maybe 30 hours—to complete a
model, and spend the other 270 hours flying?
We’d all probably become better pilots,
right? That’s exactly what’s happening as
today’s ARF aircraft become increasingly
popular.
RADIO CONTROL SCALE AEROBATICS - 2004/07
ONE OF THE clubs I belong to asked me to give a presentation on
IMAC and competing in Scale Aerobatics. The members were
interested to learn about the scale and precision aspects of IMAC,
but many of them were also interested in learning about 3-D flight;
3-D is not scale but is often performed in the IMAC Freestyle event
with our Scale aircraft.
RADIO CONTROL SCALE AEROBATICS - 2003/11
IN THE PAST several years I’ve flown in and/or helped with
a fair number of Scale Aerobatics (SA) contests. Many of them
were run extremely well, and when that happens everybody has
a lot of fun. But I’ve also been to several that were poorly run
and frustrating to fly in. You’ve probably been to some of
those: contests that start late, pilots’ meetings that don’t tell
you much, dead time in which no one is flying, long waits
between flights, “local” rules, and poorly trained judges, or
even judging bias.
