Ah yes, it's been another long winter in Minnesota.
Yessir...those long Winters are good for sharpening some skills. But not flying skills.
Shug, I'm lovin your attitude so please keep at it!
Well I thank ya' Les. Means a lot coming from a Stunt luminary such as you.
I have enjoyed seeing those photos of you from the 70s in the white pants. Wish those days would return...dress up the sport a bit. A secret pair resides in my Nut-Hut that I am going to wear sometime in a contest.
Thanks for Classing it up.
Shug
Hi Shug!
Everything is looking great! I can see a lot of improvement from last year. I think you are ready for a bigger ship! When is that Strega going to be ready?
I have never tried the tape method like Windy but I do the plastic and dry eraser method. Works the same and tells me a little more on tracking in the rounds. Same concept just a little different approaches. It always humbles me I love the chart idea... going to start doing that rather than my blank paper.
Keep it up!
Chris Rud
I hope there is some improvement....been fun striving for it.
Yes, I need to get the Strega together. It is up next on the work slab. Do you fing bigger planes groove better?
When I happened upon the Windy tapes of him doing that....Windy U 784 Novanta Repair and higher. Lots of his flights and notes and tape on the TV screen in there. Breaking down the moves. Target practice. It spoke to me.
Look forward to seeing your new family built plane sometime.
I like the dry erase on the screen too. Good for defining shapes. I will try that for sure.
Practice makes permanent. Not perfect.
I will log that.
The best patterns are always at the bottom of a jug of fuel.
Burn it up as I have heard it said. Burn fuel...get better.
Ho boy, not only a good study aid that I hadn't thought of, but good entertainment too. I laughed out loud at your closing state.. state.. statement. KNOW WHEN I SHOULD QUIT! You witnessed me get in trouble for not doing that on my first Oriental pattern movie. And my good buddy gave me a sorely deserved public flogging about it. Bye the way, that was probably the best pattern I have ever flown. Glad I can watch it on video. Your pattern was looking pretty... crisp, considering the buffeting wind.
Tape on the video screen, I've been using my fingers, now I'll try tape, or maybe string taped to the edges. Thanks for thinking of me and dropping my name. If my first pattern with my new ship is any indication, and I put my head into it, I'll be doing much better when the Carolina Classic comes up in a few weeks. We're riding up to Watt's to fly this Sunday. Among other things I have to flatten out my bumpy bottoms, especially in that treacherous outside square. I have to trust my plane and get over that fear. I tighten up going into that one. My OH8s always suck, but the ones I did on Tuesday actually were a lot better than ever before.
I'll keep at it, you keep at it, and we'll have a fun time with it in October.
Take care,
Rusty
I have always watched back the videos and held a yogurt lid as a cirle. The tape on screen really show the (bad) intersections and did help me see the 45% angle.
When I watched your flight those bottoms jumped out. Trying tosee what judges see and like everything, it is usually errors. Thinking like a judge may help our flying.
That Oriental is going to get you moving on up. I can tell.
Best to you in May. Man, I wish I could go and to Joe Nall too. But work and gigs call.
Don't be afraid to dedicate a whole flight to just one or two maneuvers. It's like practicing that one difficult measure over and over on your ax -- you need to practice the thing in isolation from the rest of the piece.
I'd highly recommend that you do a whole flight of horizontal eights, or of round eights alternating with square eights. Doing a stunt, seeing what you did wrong, and then immediately doing it again right, over and over, will really nail things down in your head.
Just remember to count how many maneuvers you've done, so you don't run out of fuel and bonk the airplane.
Been doing that...picking the end of the pattern and working it. Plus squares.
It is good to do.
On of my college football coach's favorite things to say was "practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect", made for some long days on the practice field .
James
I like your coach! I like when coaches say "Back to the Basics" and "In the 4th quarter, the legs are the first to go"