15 meter version of ETA

I am sure there is a lot of skill required to fly RC, but does it transfer. I played a lot of "Leisure Suit Larry" back in the day, but not sure that helped me either!

On a real note I did take a crack RC helicopter guy flying in a helicopter, he could not be trued without a tight guard on the cyclic, i.e., he didn't know sh!t about flying a helicopter.

Jon

On Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 10:24:52 AM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
Back in the early 70s when I was a student pilot, I decided to fly RC,
too. I bought and built a kit radio and a kit plane and took them to
the local RC field.

I was a jet pilot! I can fly anything! This will be easy! Why are all
the other planes painted a different color on top than on the bottom? I
soon learned... Every "landing" I ever made was straight down at full
power and resulted in a complete rebuild. Hmmmmmm... Maybe there's some
skill required after all?

Dan

On Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 9:21:56 PM UTC+3, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
I am sure there is a lot of skill required to fly RC, but does it transfer. I played a lot of "Leisure Suit Larry" back in the day, but not sure that helped me either!

On a real note I did take a crack RC helicopter guy flying in a helicopter, he could not be trued without a tight guard on the cyclic, i.e., he didn't know sh!t about flying a helicopter.

As long as he wasn't pumping the collective from top to bottom and back twice a second...

Those guys don't fly as much as overpower the air.

RC glider guys at least are working mostly within the same kind of constraints as we are. Except flutter and G loadings.