Logbook of a Weekend Flyer IV

For the weekend of 17-18 January:

Finally got out to the flying field again, and I had one of those moments. I had the Spitfire, and my Funtana out on the flight-line this weekend, and flew two batteries through the Funtana, on what I thought were my usual very tame low-rates. I was cruising around the sky in an easy, lazy manner, just like I was expecting. I checked out if the amount of aileron differential I'd programmed into the TX was helping with my rolls. Downline rolls were all axial, and I was pleased. I tried to determine how much KE coupling I needed to mix out. I flipped my high-rate switch to do some, and found that I just couldn't get clean KEs.

And then I landed, after the second battery had been spent. And then I realized that I'd done all my flying on high-rates . . . except for my KE testing, which I had inadvertently been doing on low-rates.

Cool, neh?