Have you been out practice flying the Shoestring yet? Are you flying it in Scale at Brodaks? It would be good experience for the NATS. Your flight routine needs to be worked out and committed to memory, just like the stunt pattern. Remember, for realism in flight, you probably shouldn't do a landing to a stop, taxi a lop to a stop, etc. Keep in mind that thing was a racer, and had very little to no brakes and wasn't flown for sport much if at all. Landings, from what I have seen and read ended with the engines being shut off when the roll out was slow enough, then a tow vehicle sent to bring it back. That is why you see guys holding down the tail for the race horse start. I ALWAYS wanted to be that guy just once! I'm thinking, high speed flight, low speed flight, high flight at 45 degrees, a touch and go and maybe some fast wing overs to simulate a pylon turn? Inform the judges of chopping the throttle at the end of the roll out. Just some thoughts that have been running around in my head since I saw it at Buder that one time. Good luck with it!
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
I did some practice and I am going to use a caller at Brodaks until I get use to the routine. Yes I am only taking my scale plane and I will fly a borrowed plane in stunt. I won't be doing anything crazy, No loops or inverted flight. I am not sure I will even do a wing over until I get use to it. It flies very heavy on the lines so it's not like flying a stunt plane.