VFR Grand Canyon GA Flying

Fly Ivan Shaw's Europa XS or Burt Rutan's SkiGull at the Grand Canyon !

Try your luck strafing the train or to start "at altitude", select your plane, set the altitude slider and click fly to be airborne in an instant.

To get oriented use the orbit camera Click the camera and slide the image left or right. There are 3 views momentarily noted at top right .

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Try out Rutan's SKIGULL with adjustable CG! . This is an amazing model and with the adjustable CG and Gross Wt. you can find your sweet spot. As is it will takeoff; but, you need to set the sticky elevator and be ready to go for more forward CG (drag CG down) and apply down elevator.

Click FLY, slide the throttle up to get going, steer with and apply rudder (right rudder) correcting for left turning tendency.

Or try Oculus Rift Windows Version. See https://www.wearvr.com/apps/fly-this ..

Joysticks are MODE 2:

Throttle and Rudder on the Left joystick + Elevator and Ailerons on the right

Joysticks: avoid "over controlling" the airplane. Note full throw turns joystick red.

As only control surface joysticks "snap back" to center the joystick are asymmetric. The Throttle does NOT snap back or you would go to half throttle every time you let go of the joysticks! At full throttle the joysticks (thumbs) are symmetric and at about the same position on the screen. (thanks Wilson...) Of course the "Sticky Elevator" causes the elevator to stay were you put it like throttle.

Click Fly Approach, cut the throttle and see if you can stay in the 3 degree glide slope box all the way down. Keep your speed up as there are sand dunes at the end of the runway! Trim with sticky elevator and make course corrections using only rudder.

Click Fly Canyon (1, 2 or 3) and I position you at altitude to the left of the runway entering the Grand Canyon park. I've flown through the canyon which is amazingly 1 mile deep. The topography was generated from a satellite gray scale height bitmap and is very accurate except for the smoothing etc.

Experimental Aviation and General Aviation plane; but, RC Joystick controls make for an interesting flight!

SkiGull sports an NACA64A401 airfoil, Rigid body mass of 1300, force at max RPM 3000 with a 1.3x multiplier 3900. Brushless motors at 8450 rpm given by Motor RPM = 0.8 x 3.5V x 16.5 Series Cell Count x 180 Motor kV Rating.

Europa XS sports an NACA23012 "12%" airfoil, Rigid body mass of 800, force at max RPM 3000

Baron sports an NACA23016 airfoil, Rigid body mass of 2000, force at max RPM 4400 x 2 or 8800 !

If you can't fly this, stay on the ground. ;-)

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