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| | (background) Last time I flew was the second time I had flown in a tunnel. In between I did AFF and 9 solos. So was pretty stable from start the last time I flew. Took me a while to stop turning and control myself vertically, but within say 5 minutes I had it down and moved onto some fine tuning my forwards and backwards movement and sidesliding. The one thing I think I felt (was a little hard to tell), but it felt like right at the start I was having to fly pretty flat to move upwards and didn't have to arch too hard to go down. Towards the end it seemed the opposite, didn't have to fly too flat to go up and had to arch harder to go down. Do they adjust the tunnel speed on the fly (no pun intended), the more students get used to flying? |
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| As you will probably know, most wind tunnels do have an adjustable speed, and it is possible that the two flights were conducted at slightly different speeds .. You might want to have a word with the person controlling the air flow, maybe agree on a wind speed for the session ..
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| | Yeah I know they can adjust the speed and obviously do this for different people's weights. But do they start students off with slower wind speeds, and would they adjust it midflight. It didn't cause any problems with my flying (actually it was easier when they turned it up). |
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Supreme Being
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| | gradually bringing up the speed is normal operation. once your at a speed you like, indicate so to your controller or tunnel cop  or instructor or whoever is in charge of your flight.... two thumbs up usually works great
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| Haha would have been nice if they had told me that before pinning me to the top net (j/k)  |
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Supreme Being
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| They will adjust the air speed to your skill level. They have to make sure you are REALLY stable before they crank up the air. If you go unstable w. the extra speed it can cause major problems for the instructors.
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| | yea...i work at flyway (TN)...we adjust the speeds 'on the fly' depending on the flyer and how they are reacting to the wind....higher winds tend to be less forgiveing, as the flyer forms a deeper relationship with the tunnel, we start to crank it up. |
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