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An Introduction to Flight Coach for F3A Pattern - A New and Brutally Honest Coach
Feedback is essential to the progression of pattern skills. It’s also something most pilots don’t get during their practice sessions. Enter: Flight Coach
Making Weight
“Making Weight” is a weird term that refers to a pattern aircraft being under the maximum weight allowed by the rules...
Centering the Sub-Trim Debate: An In-Depth Analysis
Various opinions exist as to how subtrims affect servo travel, especially when used with dual servos on elevators. This discussion shows data that can help understand subtrims...
LiPo Battery Anatomy, Fire Behavior, and Safe Practices
LiPo batteries have been overcharged, shorted, cut, nailed, etc. in numerous YouTube videos that dramatically demonstrate the potential to make smoke and fire...
Sbus Worth The Fuss?
Are there other reasons, aside from tidiness, to use Sbus, especially in a pattern airplane? Probably...
Measuring Incidence Angles and CG Location
Does it even matter? We each may have different criteria for making these measurements...
Anatomy of a Snap Roll
Snap rolls are interesting critters! Reaching consensus on just what they are often seems impossible...
Air Density and Pattern
Have you noticed that some days your airplane has more or less power than others? That it’s more or less responsive? The variable property causing this is air density...
Essential Tools
There’s an old saying that “A craftsman is only as good as his tools”. That’s certainly true for precision flying, and applies equally to all forms of modeling...