--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, Tapio Linkosalo <tapio.linkosalo@...> wrote:
> ...It seems as if the model first flies
> past the balloon cord so that the cord touches the LE of the wing, but
> then the cord is pulled forward until it touches the prop, stopping it
> but also the model is being pulled forward from the prop? And the steer
> is then ended, by letting the model fly forward, freeing the prop, after
> which the cord is pulled sideways away from between the wing and the
> prop? Interesting! I've always thought that steering is done by slowing
> one tip backwards, or by pulling the nose sideways, but you can actually
> pull the model forward from the prop to a better location?
You've got it exactly right. The only clarification is that when you prepare to release the model, pull down a little to unhook the prop blades, jiggle the line, and move to the left. If you don't pull down and jiggle, the prop stays locked pretty firmly on the line and model won't release. That's when panic tends to set in and people stop walking, start shaking and yanking the line, and the model gives up and collapses into a ball.
Getting on the prop is the only realistic way to steer very high up. There is too much lag time to be able to slow down a wing tip without spiraling the model in.
Pushing the motorstick around in a little U-turn works, too...but that still usually involves getting on the prop.
Received on Mon Jun 29 2009 - 08:39:24 CEST
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