scott@opus.UUCP (Scott Wiesner) (11/05/84)
> ... [I] have a preference for mode I as what little flying I did > ten years ago was of that variety. It seems quite a bit more natural to > me when it came to coordinating turns and the like. ... I know exactly how you feel. I flew about 10 years ago for a couple of summers, and learned an even more obscure "mode". We called it reverse mode one. Left stick was throttle/aileron, and right stick was rudder/ elevator. The argument for the seperation was not too great. Seems the "best" flier in the club (the one who taught everyone else) started out with a powered glider and a four channel radio. Of course the glider was rudder/elevator control, and when he looked at the diagram that explained how the controls were set up, he put his rudder on the left stick. Later when he graduated to a 4 channel powered plane, he realized he'd have to put his turning control, the ailerons on the left stick, and that's how we all ended up with reverse mode one. I just got restarted in RC a few months ago, and was concerned that old habits would creep in as I was trying to learn mode 2. I only ran into a problem once. I was flying along, straight and level, and decided to do a roll. The plane did this VERY strange maneuver, which scared the !*&% out of me. (I was lower than I should have been to start out with). I managed to recover, thought about it as I was trying to relax, and finally realized I'd reverted to old instincts for a moment, and had managed to do a RUDDER roll. My plane does not do graceful rudder rolls. Anyway, I still think separating ailerons and elevator makes a lot of sense, and if I get up the nerve, I'll give it a try. The drawback is that I'll be "incompatible" with the rest of the world. (We need to figure out whether net.rec is more appropriate than net.ham-radio for these discussions until we get our own group.) -- Scott Wiesner {allegra, ucbvax, cornell}!nbires!scott