Originally Posted by T. Bob

I'm just gonna skip #4 & #10

And #1, #2, #3, #5, #6, #7, #8 and #9 and head straight for the Miller Lite.... right?

Originally Posted by mbacosa

Are you doing "full" snaps or an "imac" style snap. What I mean by "full" is holding the elevator all the way through the snap, where as on the "imac" style you show the the break with elevator and then finish with aileron and rudder only. The full snaps tend to really throw the aircraft off track either up or down depending on type of snap. If you are still doing full it will be time to learn the other way quick.

Don't let the JUDGES catch you doing that.... Big Fat "0"

There is no such thing as an "IMAC" snap. Elevator should be held all the way around till you release for recovery. There are NO downgrades for vertical or horizontal displacements in a snap.

Originally Posted by BoneDoc

Wayne, I just saw your 2010 Sportsman video, and I notice that you weren't using much elevator in your snaps. I presume that this is universally ok, and contestants won't get dinged for this?

Your right. On a simulator video you won't get dinged for it.

In real life you are running the risk of a huge downgrade or a zero for not using pitch during the rotation of a snap.
I am better at it than I used to be but will fully admit I roll out at times.
Locally, it's never an issue. Tucson, Clover, or the Nats is a different story.

It took me a long time to unload the elevator during a snap. Once I got the timing down I started to under-rotate on my snaps and found it very easy to compensate by holding aileron. Now that is driving me nuts as I tend to over-rotate and not get that crisp stop. So it is a catch 22 for me sometimes, bury the elevator and slooooooow momentum get a good wings level exit or back off the elevator and risk over/under rotating. I find myself under-rotating because it easier to correct without a big eyepopping movment...
Maybe a day of fine tuning in the spring will be in order, get serious for a season or two and catch up on my skills...

Originally Posted by wmat7039

I'm not really sure I understand what you mean here. If you are talking about IMAC then we use the same catalog (Aresti Systems Inc) as is being utilized in sequence construction for full scale (CIVA/FAI) sequences. So in effect, the catalog includes all maneuvers that are flown in constructed sequences for both disciplines.
Maybe you can enlighten us on the maneuvers that we use in IMAC for competition that meet the category you are addressing?
Wayne
IMAC Sequence Committee

well i was talking to a few of my friends who fly full scale and RC, they were looking at the 08 unlimited know sequence and were saying how hard it would be in the full scale, i guess i worded my previous post wrong... its not so much that we have maneuvers in IMAc that the full scale dont do but the fact that we put our planes through a sequence that would be hell on a pilot in full scale. they were saying how the IMAC advnced sequence was similar to their advanced sequence and the advanced IMAC was closr to the unlimited. but the inlimited class would be do physically demanding on for the majority of pilots to handle.

Originally Posted by sun.flyer

You driving us?? I'll give you some gas money.

Tim

thats no problem. hopefully it doesn't fall on the weak signals show,since both of us have to work it.

Lol I like all the complaints about the snap on #4, when I find the hardest to do #1 and stay on that inverted 45degree upline along with the same heading when doing the roll.

Also is the half roll in the hammer head on #8 on the way up to the stall turn or after?

i look forward to the snaps but the yea that roll on the 45 and top of the loop oh boy i will be on the sim all winter. i am hoping to buy the best and latest and greatest plane stuff and hopefully it will do it for me.

Originally Posted by leepord geko

Also is the half roll in the hammer head on #8 on the way up to the stall turn or after?

On the way up. You should be seeing the belly of the plane when you fly the stall turn.

Tim

Originally Posted by jamesrxx951

i look forward to the snaps but the yea that roll on the 45 and top of the loop oh boy i will be on the sim all winter. i am hoping to buy the best and latest and greatest plane stuff and hopefully it will do it for me.

Practice, practice, practice......................and yes more practice Jimmy.

Tim

Originally Posted by leepord geko

Also is the half roll in the hammer head on #8 on the way up to the stall turn or after?

Whatever is above the entry line is on the way up, whatever is below the entry line in on the way down....

Originally Posted by exeter_acres

Whatever is above the entry line is on the way up, whatever is below the entry line in on the way down....

But what if they are tied?

lol thanks guys for the help sometimes I'm tired off doing the sequence and in between just throw in a hover or rolling harrier randomly!

Originally Posted by leepord geko

lol thanks guys for the help sometimes I'm tired off doing the sequence and in between just throw in a hover or rolling harrier randomly!

Oh...........now that's a zero for sure.

Tim