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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Larry,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Your really trying to make us jealous aren't
you.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Glad its working for you. With 6 kidos between you
two it will make for good entertainment and family outings.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>WG</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jed241@msn.com href="mailto:jed241@msn.com">Larry Diamond</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">NSRCA</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 13, 2003 12:12
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> The Contagious R/C and Pattern
Bug???</DIV>
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<DIV>For some in D4 this will be an update...<vbg></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I finally made it out to the flying field today, not having flown since
the D4 Championship.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Got one flight in on the Focus and trying some of the Intermediate stuff
out for next year. This trip to the field was for the girl-friend and kids. We
have six between us and have moved to the serious dating stage...lol.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Aside from the kids flying, I've been a bit on the skeptical side of
Lisa's desire to fly R/C Planes. She has stated that her goal is to progress
to the same class as me, then out fly me in every contest...</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I've been looking for subtle signs of the R/C & Pattern Bug...Lisa
was very supportive with me going to contest and went with me for the last
two. She was willing to learn and help where she could. Today, we tried to
manage stick time for the kids and stick time for Lisa. The last flight of the
day she was really focused and started to see some of the things clicking in
her mind about how to control the plane. During the last flight she wanted to
fly a bit longer when I mentioned something about landing. So, what the heck.
We are at good altitude, weather is great...Dead-stick from anywhere would be
fine. Sure enough the plane stopped making nose on the downwind side of the
runway. She asked, "what happened?"...I calmly replied, "It's out of fuel now,
so we have to land". With an uneventful landing, her mind was put at ease from
the guilt of running the plan out of gas...Hmmm...good sign.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Once we got home and dinner out of the way. Lisa wanted to test out the
GP-G2 Flight Simulator. This is where things really started to click and she
was soon taking off with out too much difficulty. About this time the kids
wanted to try. Lisa said, "No...Mom's Flyin'...Need to wait till I'm
done!!!"...Ha...She appears to be hooked. After learning to control
the aircraft a bit better, she wanted to try and land. So with objects
off at the full scale airport we started the landing practice. Lisa was
determined to get this down. We set the field up so she could land in any
direction, just focused on wings level and the pitch attitude. After a few
attempts she finally got it...I made it a bit more challenging from the start
by simulating dead-stick on every landing attempt. During this time, she would
not let the kids fly until she got 5 landings down. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>With all that said, she even likes helping me build plane.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Larry</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>