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Message: [Acro] Re: Yet more questions from first-time Sportsman pilot
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From: pete mcleod <petenash at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 01:42:23 UTC
Hey Ed Pete McLeod here I'm fairly new to the aerobatic world (this was my first year, flew sportsman in 5 contests, intermediate next year) but i've got a couple tips for you on the split-S : not sure where the acceleration is comming from, but you'll want to make sure your not decending during the half roll...as for the speed comming out the bottom...you should be able to controll that with G, tighting up your radius will take car of any extra speed...note: speed out the bottom will only help you for the half loop up! not sure were you are having you heading issues...all i suggest is that if you fing yourself off heading NOT to correct right away (the judges will see it) milk out the heading change in a radius. ex-if you go off heading on the half roll on the split-s, pull through with no correct and once you have pulled through the vertical and can see where you want the nose to be, input rudder to move it there during the pull out (keep wings level and a even radius). when you hit level you should be on heading (and with any luck the judges didn't see a thing!) couple other things... don't worry about staying in the box, outs are cheap in sportsman, focus on flying the figures well and flying them in the right direction! whenever possible fly with lots of energy (come into the box with some smash!) have fun hope some of this helps a bit fly hard and good luck Pete McLeod ----- Original Message ----- From: Ed Haywood <haywoode at hotmail.com> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 20:49:04 -0400 Subject: [Acro] Yet more questions from first-time Sportsman pilot To: acro at gf24.de I think I've got the 1 1/4 spin down good enough. Thanks for all the tips. The other thing I'm having trouble with is the 2 point roll at very slow airspeeds. I can roll OK at 120, and even at 100, but when I try to roll at 80mph it gets ugly. A few things I'm running into: 1. I seem to routinely push neg 2Gs to get my nose up into correct inverted pitch attitude (I'm flying a Decathlon, which has a semi-symmetrical airfoil, and needs to be fairly nose high to for level inverted flight path). I shouldn't have to push much more than 1G, should I? 2. Sometimes when I am approaching 1/4 around the roll, in knife edge flight, and I apply heavy top rudder, the roll rate seems to slow or almost stop for a moment. 3. I'm still gaining about 20 to 30 mph on the half roll at the beginning of the Split S, leading to some excess speed on the bottom. I try to pitch the nose up a bit to start the roll, but that seems to make problem #2 worse. 4. I'm coming off heading sometimes. I think I know the cause of this one. I'm starting my push too soon, or holding it too long, as I come around inverted. Any and all tips appreciated. Sorry if I'm boring you experienced flyers. I don't have access to a coach at the present time. On the plus side, I did the Sportsman known at box alt today for the first time, and bottomed out at 1800 AGL both times. That made me pretty happy. ________________________________ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search!
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