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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Feb 2015
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Navy Carrier Pilots - Overpaid?
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 11:45:30 -0500, KC wrote:
On 2/16/2015 6:31 PM, wrote:
On Monday, February 16, 2015 at 12:25:26 PM UTC-5, John H. wrote:
The big difference between simulators/real airplanes and RC airplanes - in sims or
real planes, the nose of the plane is in front of you. With an RC plane, at least
part of the time, the nose is pointed at you. That means the left and right controls
are reversed. This, I believe, is what causes the most problems, at least for me.
Another related difference is that pilots in a real plane has a seat of the pants, first person view. Not so with RC.
Something that helps newbies to RC is that when the airplane is flying towards you and the controls are reversed, your can turn your body so the transmitter is faced the same way as the plane, but look back over your shoulder at the plane. That way the stick moves to the right, the plane moves to the right. It's a crutch, but with some more stick time it'll come naturally.
I have seen them with a live screen so you can fly with a cockpit point
of view on your controller... Not sure how fast it updates for real time
but the one I saw was a quad copter so it was not as fast...
That's called First Person View, or FPV. The camera is on the aircraft and sends a
video signal back to the pilot. He receives the signal and views it on a tablet or
through a headset.
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Guns don't cause problems. The behavior
of certain gun owners causes problems.
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