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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Xavier:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wow, really interesting question about where you
look and how you picture things. I don't know about others, but I can't
even put my finger on what I do most of the time. It becomes fairly
automatic after a while I guess. I know that when I was trying to learn
rolling circles at first I had to think well ahead of the airplane, in
terms of where it was going to get the circle and cardinal points right and also
what was going to keep it from just wacking the ground. What began to help
for me was to picture how I wanted to push the tail of the airplane around with
the elevator and rudder. If I focused on that, I usually didn't scare
myself too much and eventually it became fairly well engrained. However,
it seems like at the end of every winter, it takes a few outings before that
becomes comfortable and automatic again.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>BTW, this is one of the few things that I believe
that a simulator can really help with. Although you can't really picture a
3 dimensional box and place things properly, you can get stuff like where to
push the tail into "muscle memory" fairly well. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ed</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=xavier.mouraux@sympatico.ca
href="mailto:xavier.mouraux@sympatico.ca">Xavier Mouraux</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 07, 2004 8:49
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Sitting in the plane or not
?</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello again,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was reading Don Lowe's column in RCM and was
surprised at his recommandation to beginners RC pilots: "establish yourself as
in the cockpit ... and then the control motions required never
change".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I havn't flown outside for a few month now so I
can't try to verify what I do. I am asking you guys who may have notice
it before. Do you fly like you are sitting in the airplane or you look
at the plane and move the sticks automatically ?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Another question related to flying: Were do you
look when you pilot an RC plane ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a) The plane in general</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>b) The nose of the plane</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>c) The tail of the plane</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>d) Some distance in front of the plane (were
you want it to go) </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Xavier</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>note: I have not been in this hobby for very long
so I don't know everybody's history. If someone could give me a small resume
of Don Lowe, I will appreciate.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>