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<DIV>For some in D4 this will be an update...<vbg></DIV>
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<DIV>I finally made it out to the flying field today, not having flown since the
D4 Championship.</DIV>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<DIV>With all that said, she even likes helping me build plane.</DIV>
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<DIV>Larry</DIV></BODY></HTML>