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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Motorman on August 26, 2013, 11:55:47 AM
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When you practice, do you fly the pattern over and over or, do you break it down and practice individual maneuvers over and over? Kinda seems like a waste to go through level flight wing overs and loops (easy stuff) then only do the hard stuff once per flight.
It depends on what you are attempting to do. A general practice flight should almost always be a full pattern in order. Anything else, and it is counterproductive because of the CG shift. Occasionally repeating a maneuver is worthwhile if you really blew it the first time. In any case, you want to have the right flow in your mind for an entire flight.
If you are looking for specific trim issues, then it might be a different story, you might want to do a square 8 at different points in the CG travel. Usually, however, if you can't tell why something might be happening in the trim, multiple repetitive maneuvers might be worthwhile. Square 8's and hourglasses are the usual candidates because it is sometimes difficult to see the problems on a single shot, or you can't be sure that it's an airplane issue as opposed to a geometry mistake. Of course once you do make a change, you need to go do complete normal flights because you need to evaluate the change during all the maneuvers.
Brett
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As I tell my boy with his baseball."practice like you play". Unless it is some specific that needs attention.
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What Brett said. Sometimes I'll throw in an extra set of triangles or hourglass, if I didn't like the first ones. Seldom any of the other tricks, 'cause they take too long and burn too much fuel. :-\ Steve