Something I've noticed from several videos I've seen here and around is the way people self-hand-launch smaller planes.
What strikes me as odd, they'll hold the plane and launch with their right hand, holding the tx in their left. Naturally, for mode 2, they'll have control of the throttle the whole time, but they have the first couple of seconds the ail/elv are up to the aircraft's trim.
My question: Wouldn't it be better to engage a throttle cut assigned to a RH switch, preset the throttle for launch, hold the control in the right, and in the windup of the throw, turn off the cut?
That way the ail/elv are always under control, and the full throttle/rud control comes in during the climb out.
What say you? Is control of the flight surfaces in the first second of flight worth throwing non-dominate hand, or am I missing something?
What strikes me as odd, they'll hold the plane and launch with their right hand, holding the tx in their left. Naturally, for mode 2, they'll have control of the throttle the whole time, but they have the first couple of seconds the ail/elv are up to the aircraft's trim.
My question: Wouldn't it be better to engage a throttle cut assigned to a RH switch, preset the throttle for launch, hold the control in the right, and in the windup of the throw, turn off the cut?
That way the ail/elv are always under control, and the full throttle/rud control comes in during the climb out.
What say you? Is control of the flight surfaces in the first second of flight worth throwing non-dominate hand, or am I missing something?