(12-02-2013, 06:52 AM)Flying fisho Wrote: I actully posted this thread as a result of a question I received at the field on Sunday. In the site'e Plane Aerobatics menu selection, there are video clips from a RealFlight sim which include videos (on the RealFlight rc flight simulator), including close-ups of the Tx stick inputs and the airplane's response. This is the site I was talking about.
Phoenix also has the ability to display the controls on screen and I have seen a clip in our forum of Jason flying so presume recordings can be posted on here.
I was thinking this thread could be useful for instructors & learners at various levels by posting clips of basic & advanced maneuvres. I cant work out how to do it & dont possess the skill levels to be posting good examples.
Any further thoughts on this guys?
That's a good Idea Wayne, I recorded that video like a screen shot, to get it into a format that I could upload to youtube was quite an awkward thing to it and it didn't grab the sound either.
You can record a flight with phoenix but it's only in phoenix's native format, it's not able to be posted up like that.
I managed to find this group of helpfull tutorials on youtube. They are not all relevent to the gold wings standard but some are and all are good to know. There are plenty more I'll post some more up as I find them
Cuban eight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aodWG9N59VM
Spin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh-PecAilUQ&list=UUr_-AweBMZoZnrxm12G7yWQ&index=35
4 point roll not a gold wings manouver but a good one to practice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuGLaeRhsdQ&list=UUr_-AweBMZoZnrxm12G7yWQ&index=42
Immelman turn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S6RNWE0WKQ&list=UUr_-AweBMZoZnrxm12G7yWQ&index=50
Tho' His deminstration of the figure of 8 is not quite right
Stall turn This looks good and it's good practice for using rudder
It especially looks good if you combine it with a roll of the vertical climb up and one on the way down as well. even better with a 1/4 on the way up and a 1/4 roll back on the way down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9XlU_kNNQ&list=UUr_-AweBMZoZnrxm12G7yWQ&index=57
Knife edge spin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB_wMZ35hBs&list=UUr_-AweBMZoZnrxm12G7yWQ&index=61
One thing that should be mentioned the manouvers look so much better when done parrellel to the strip and centered about the pilot area. For example if you were doing 3 rolls from left to right you would fly down the strip past the far left end, do a procedure turn to lign up with the strip fly back straight and level, parrellel to the strip. Then begin the first roll to the left of the pilot area the second roll would be centered infront of the pilot area and the thurd roll would be the same distance to the right as the first roll was to the left.
Similar with the cuban eight the cross over point at the center of the eight should be centered in front of the pilot area and the rolls should occure on the crossover point. It looks great if you can do that and keep it all in line.
The real trick is to think about setting up the plane in the right place to start each manouver not just do them where ever the plane happens to be at the time. It really makes all the difference if you are practicing these manouvers to make a big effort to put the plane in the same starting possition for each the manouver each time. Equally important is to practice them in both directions from right to left and from left to right.
For example I practice figure of eights most mornings I fly before work. I fly out to the left of the field, procedure turn fly straigh back parrellel to an imaginary strip, past the pilot area then all around the eight and exit the manouver parrellel to the strip flying off to the right. I climb verticle do a stall turn, fly back down and fly the same figure eight but this time from right to left. Then I fly out of the manouver parrellel to the strip again and stall turn to come back. Now it's time for an out side figure eight left to right, stallturn and then the outside figure of eight right to left. Once I do a nice one of each I move on to something else.
But this morning 'cause it's raining I'm typing about it
paaaaaatience 
paaaaaaatieeence 
dooooohhhh !!! 
I follow your reasoning about keeping it realistic but on the other side of the coin, sometimes the little tickles of elevator can be missed with normal elevator throws. 
