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Ben_Chiu Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 5. "RE: VPC Flight Rally #17 - Make His..." 11-19-03, 19:15z  Hi Melo: > Tried to talk Vic into giving the Flyer a try later on > in the day too, but by then the air-conditioned booth was very crowded > and there was a long line waiting to try the Flyer. Sounds like Vic's become spoiled after the treatment he received at Miramar. > They had FS2004 setup with the cockpit view on the computer screen. > Behind that was a mock-up of the center part of the Wright Flyer, with a > wing to climb onto and lay down in the pilot position, and a partial > upper wing overhead. So this was being run by MS? > Pitch control was as expected. Bank/Yaw control was accomplished by > pushing with the hips in the opposite direction that the wing was > heading. So if the upper wing started to tip down to the left, I moved > my hips to the right enough to compensate. Interesting. I just watched a show on PBS about the Wright B flyer and some modern commentators were saying that bank on the B model was controlled by a second stick that moved forward and backward. Talk about confusing! > Have no idea how long I flew, but can give a pretty good approximation > of how far I got. (They did not have Lat-Long coordinates on screen so I > can't give you an exact position) Took off and flew straight along the > course, levelling off pretty quick to stay low and in the ground effect. > Flew past all four markers, I think the last one is at 852 ft if I am > remembering right. Continued flying as straight as I could past some > houses. Had some very hairy moments very gingerly banking around a > couple of trees and finally brought the Flyer down on purpose to a > gentle landing on the sand within easy sight of the Atlantic shoreline. > I think there was one sparse row of houses between me and the water when > the Flyer came to a stop. LOL! It's usually a house that causes me to stop! > It was a Blast and I won't soon forget it! Sounds like it. Sorry I missed it. Ben -= VPC OffLine Reader 2.1 =- Registered to: Ben Chiu -OLR.PL v1.80- Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      VPC Flight Rally #17 - Make History...    Admin       11-09-03              RE: VPC Flight Rally #17 - Make His...    PL965Melo       11-10-03       1            RE: VPC Flight Rally #17 - Make His...    Admin       11-10-03       2            RE: VPC Flight Rally #17 - Make His...    Ben_Chiu       11-11-03       3                 RE: VPC Flight Rally #17 - Make His...    PL965Melo       11-13-03       4                      RE: VPC Flight Rally #17 - Make His...    Ben_Chiu       11-19-03       5                           RE: VPC Flight Rally #17 - Make His...    PL965Melo       11-23-03       6                                RE: VPC Flight Rally #17 - Make His...    Ben_Chiu       12-02-03       7                                     RE: VPC Flight Rally #17 - Make His...    PL965Melo       12-06-03       8

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