1 time a week isn't enough. The community needs more tail-heavy! :D

I dont know how, but this channel keeps getting better and better.

Theres always wind at my local field. people hate it, but i see it as a fun challange to fly in.

I love how you take your knowledge from full scale and apply it RC. Keep it up! Looking forward to your crosswind video

I'm so glad I found this channel

Your videos are always on point, super informative, and you’re an excellent narrator! If you keep them up, you’ll have 100x your current subscribers. Please keep them Coming!

@TailHeavyProductions

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Jake! Means a lot to hear that. -Zach

@RCPlaneenthusiast

Жыл бұрын

so true

I like flying in wind because it makes me a better pilot.

I've got a cheap little 500mm foamy dollar store glider converted into an rc motor glider. If the wind is blowing hard it's the one I'm reaching for. It's only 100g so it gets manhandled by the wind at slow speeds but throttle up and bit, point it into the wind and the game is to use slope soaring techniques to keep it just in front of you. Zig zag left and right. Huge sweeping barrel rolls and loops for days feels like surfing in the wind. Cutting the throttle just before the top of a loop and finishing with a hard back on the elevator makes for a fast on the spot flip losing almost no altitude. Super fun If its heading in the right direction for any of my local hills then I'll pull out the slope glider and see how long I can stay up. It's always windy here, so it's best to just learn to fly in it.

Whoever is doing the "Wilhelm Scream" at EVERY near disaster deserves an award! Great content, too. I don't know why I don't have some kind of windsock with me every time I go flying.

@TailHeavyProductions

6 ай бұрын

😁

One of my best days flying was also the windiest. I didn't know what I was getting myself into until I was above the tree line. Fortunately I had a couple of hardcore folks who also showed up. They offered encouragement and I managed to get in a couple flights without any mishaps.

Little ultrix is the most fun to fly in at least 20mph winds! "Calm days doesn't make GOOD pilots"!🤷‍♂️

Well said lads

Best way to learn? Fly gliders on the slope. Get good and if you can fly when it's 20-30mph, do so. It will teach you to work with the wind and not try to fight it, certainly don't fear it.

Been learning quite a bit from y'all. All the points you hit shined light on myblast couple sessions braving the wind

Fun to watch fellas! Made me miss my Fun Cub. I used to love to helicopter it in at zero ground speed in a headwind!

Yessss!

There are so many little girls at your flying field! All that screaming on landing!!!😂😂😂

Great video! I just got my 1st plane (Carbon Cub S2), and where I'm learning it has a cross wind most of the time. Cross wind + really light plane + absolute noob = 😮 ...actually I like the challenge / trial by fire! Thanks for the help!!

Slope soarers are a good example case of deliberately adding ballast for higher winds to increase wind loading to drive more into wind.

This is invaluable information. But I think a nearly universal R/C misconception should be addressed first: RC-ers tend to think the ground has some occult influence on our models; we talk of 'downwind stalls' or 'upwind turns' as if the model knew what the ground was doing underneath it. If we were taught to relate our flying craft to the air they fly in, not to the ground we stand on, we would understand these tutorials better. Another dark corner is the difference between wind and turbulence. Coping with laminar wind is a question of airspeed and geometry, while coping with turbulence is a question of wing loading. That distinction is not very well understood by R/C pilots with no full scale background. Thanks a lot for your content, I have enough theoretical, R/C and full scale perspective to see that your videos are exactly what our R/C community needs. A true water fountain in a desert!

@TailHeavyProductions

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Henning! We're having fun creating the content and are glad you enjoy it, too. 👍 -Zach

New channel content is awesome.

I findyaelf checking for your videos every couple days now....keep it up please your outlook and delivery is a refreshing watch

@TailHeavyProductions

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Tory! We upload every Saturday at noon eastern, happy to hear you're enjoying the videos. 💙👍

Man I wish I could cut some sky with you guys.

Very good knowledge. Love the videos guys and the way you explain stuff 👍

Great video, thanks

Very well edited and filmed video, keep it up!

From my personal experiance in high wind flying ive had some of the worst crashes ever when deploying the flaps they kinda amplify instability and increase the odds of a hard stall

Flying in hard winds can be alot of fun!!! and as we always have wind here in the Netherlands we can't relly get around it LOL

video idea: do a review on the 2.0 meter e flite draco.

When it's windy out here I like to take my UMX turbo Timber out for what I call flying a kite without a string

Hovering a plane is just the best. I like to on a day that’s windy but not gusty do EXTREME STOL. I pick a landing spot without a runway and I just kinda hover in. (This is with planes lmao) great video guys. You still haven’t seen wind like I have tho 🤪

I bought my first plane t28 1.1mm and its flys great even if i'm a beginner (i never flown that plane without safe)

a steady, down the runway light to moderate wind makes it easier to take off and land as long as you manage your throttle as needed.... when a variable crosswind shows up I stay out of those shark infested waters

If the wind is steady it's fun. If it's gusty it's not

I like to get the plane and tack back and forth in front of a strong wind using as little motor as possible

*** 7:55 *** wise words

Had a blast flying my home made sub 250 gram wing in 20-25mph winds when they suddenly showed out of nowhere and blew my hat off. A real oh crap moment. my final approach was at a standstill above the ground yet the plane still felt very touchy as if nowhere near its stall speed.

@TailHeavyProductions

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome! Yep, the headwind acts as additional airspeed which is why "losses" of wind on final can be dangerous when landing. Something important to remember is that a wing can stall at any airspeed. -Zach

@maxonheadrick9339

Жыл бұрын

@@TailHeavyProductions i think you mean stall at any groundspeed? but yes i know what you mean, love the silly videos

@TailHeavyProductions

Жыл бұрын

@@maxonheadrick9339 Nope, airspeed. 👍Thank you! We have fun producing them. 😁

Nice video! How about a video on flying in low visibility/fog/at night?

Thanks y'all! I was hoping you'd cover crosswind! It's the one thing I don't feel like Realflight really gives good options to practice dealing with.

@RCPlaneenthusiast

Жыл бұрын

they have a crosswind video

@TailHeavyProductions

Жыл бұрын

@@RCPlaneenthusiast We actually don't have crosswind videos out yet. We hope to soon, though!

@RCPlaneenthusiast

Жыл бұрын

@@TailHeavyProductions Oh I must have been misremembering sorry :D

@MChronicleSword

Жыл бұрын

RealFlight has options to change wind gust & turbulence %s, on top of changing wind direction and speed with keyboard buttons. It's fun challenging my landing reflexes with super high winds

Great Video again! Entertaining and informative. Have you guys ever considered making a discord server? Would be cool to have a community of "outside the box" RC pilots to chat with

@TailHeavyProductions

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! We do have plans down the road to build a Discord server and grow a fun community of like-minded RC geeks. -Zach

@stratos2

Жыл бұрын

@@TailHeavyProductions sounds awesome!

I hate the wind. I don't care about any other conditions, as long as its not windy, I will fly. Great video, it has made me slightly more confident to fly in winds now....

@TailHeavyProductions

Жыл бұрын

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone!

@old-rcplane-phart

Жыл бұрын

Can't get/be any better if 1 doesn't get outside their comfort zone 🤷‍♂️

How about making the smallest rc plane?

I like kiting my tt evo

5:00 While a plane will weathervane on the ground, it will NOT in the air.

Witch tow plane did you fly?

@TailHeavyProductions

Жыл бұрын

Super Cub 👍 -Zach

Surprised no heli guys were flying since a 600 & 700 size is more forgiving in windy conditions

I don’t care what anyone says. I’m flying my micro cub in 15 knots crosswind

Can you mention me in your next video?

@old-rcplane-phart

Жыл бұрын

Y?🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@yeetforever4425

Жыл бұрын

@@old-rcplane-phart 💀

If you ain’t half out of control in the wind you’re doing it wrong

I got a new plane and the first time I flew it wast windy