RE: All us newbie pilots, lets share..
Yes, I just used it on the low setting and kept it moving with my hand close enough to feel the temp of the heat, sunny day temp works great.
In the meantime, the wind is up in Cody, a little stiffer than I wanted for a maiden flight for the Pitts, so I'm holding off. Meanwhile, took the Waco up in it, it was actually a head wind so she took off like a shot. I think I zeroed in on her last problem today. For some reason, only known to her evil mind, she needed full right aileron trim to fly level, so I brought her around and checked it out and adjust the trim back to neutral and went into the radio's sub trim. Adjusted the sub trim so that it was duplicating the correction I did with the top trim and adjusted the rudder trim so it was neutral as well. Blasted back into the air and she flew like a dream, very Pandora-like, which is a good thing. She, being such a small bird inside, doesn't have an A3L (one of the very few birds of mine that doesn't) so she gets rocked a little in the wind, which is okay, just more work for me, but she landed great both times and behaved herself like a lady and didn't insist on flopping over on her back like some dead insect. Do I dare say that I have tamed the beast!?
We tried the Apprentice but the wind was just too much, Diane had over half throttle just to maintain forward momentum and did a Harrier landing.
Note to self, we're coming up to 50,000 reads on this thread, and I'm coming up to one thousand posts, time to celebrate!!
Grossman56
Yes, I just used it on the low setting and kept it moving with my hand close enough to feel the temp of the heat, sunny day temp works great.
In the meantime, the wind is up in Cody, a little stiffer than I wanted for a maiden flight for the Pitts, so I'm holding off. Meanwhile, took the Waco up in it, it was actually a head wind so she took off like a shot. I think I zeroed in on her last problem today. For some reason, only known to her evil mind, she needed full right aileron trim to fly level, so I brought her around and checked it out and adjust the trim back to neutral and went into the radio's sub trim. Adjusted the sub trim so that it was duplicating the correction I did with the top trim and adjusted the rudder trim so it was neutral as well. Blasted back into the air and she flew like a dream, very Pandora-like, which is a good thing. She, being such a small bird inside, doesn't have an A3L (one of the very few birds of mine that doesn't) so she gets rocked a little in the wind, which is okay, just more work for me, but she landed great both times and behaved herself like a lady and didn't insist on flopping over on her back like some dead insect. Do I dare say that I have tamed the beast!?
We tried the Apprentice but the wind was just too much, Diane had over half throttle just to maintain forward momentum and did a Harrier landing.
Note to self, we're coming up to 50,000 reads on this thread, and I'm coming up to one thousand posts, time to celebrate!!
Grossman56
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