Too kind.
I’m just glad if people like it.
I know I went a bit too far with it but it’s a training plane and sort of looks like a toy plane so… 
Tonight I’ll add all the remaining signatures.
See you around kids.
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there’s no such thing here.
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Another session at Laughlin circuit. Starting to get the takeoff rotation right, slowly. I wish I had a stick extension.
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Just for info you still have an old version of the skin. 
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Which stick do you have?
Well I had a great flight in the Yak on Thursday on the Hollo Point North server, even if I was all by myself :-).
After a few familiarization flights, I was able to walk through the startup and engine check checklists pretty well, taxied out to runway 27 at Senaki and lifted off into the morning virtual air. My plan was to just spend some time keeping my eyes on the instruments and trying to make a straight and level flight with a few coordinated turns just to get used to actually paying attention to what I was doing instead of just wandering around aimlessly.
Climbing up to 1km altitude I headed due north to get away from the airfield. Once on the other side of that hill north of Senaki, I leveled off, kept her stable and then went into a 30 degree bank right turn - aiming to keep my altitude, bank angle and slip indicator all where they should be. I tend to get distracted and have a harder time flying stable.
After making it through 360 degrees, I headed north again, climbing up to 2k and keeping the needles all in their correct spots. Farther north I went into a 30 degree bank left for 360 degrees and then reversed it into a 60 degree back right for 360 degrees before continuing the turn around to the south to bring me back to the airfield.
With my gas becoming depleted I pass over top the Senaki at 2k altitude and entered into a right hand 45 degree bank spiraling descent, keeping my eye on the instruments as much as I could while still enjoying the VR view. Once down to 300 metres AGL, I headed over to Senaki airfield for some quick aerobics. Nothing fancy really, just a high speed pass one direction, slow speed back the other way, inverted back down the runway again and then ‘knife edge’ back. Did a couple of low level ‘max performance’ turns over the airfield, 2 one way, then reversed into 2 the other way before setting up for a landing. Almost stalled and dropped onto the runway but I was fairly shallow to begin with.
Really enjoying the Yak module however. It is a fun GA module and I do look forward to more being available to fly … next to the combat modules.
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I know, haha - i wondered if you’d notice! I’ll replace it with the new one before next flight! I just wanted to get some flying done before it was bedtime 
@Fridge, I have the standard issue Warthog, sitting on the desk until I get around making some mounts…I’ve set up the 25 curvatures for pitch and roll per Chuck’s guides.
They are good in flight, giving good fine control around the centre, but picking the right amount of back stick to unstick the front wheel for takeoff attitude seems to take a bit of practice: too much and the pitch up at takeoff is violent, too little and I’m still rolling on all three wheels at 140kmh.
I might reduce the curvature a bit to see if it makes the takeoff easier while still making fine control possible - I suspect the difficulty at picking up the takeoff attitude is because the stick position is entering the steep part of the S-curve, so a small change in the stick is quite a lot in the control surface.
Either that or it’s just a matter of practice and reducing backstick pressure as soon as the nose wheel is off the ground - and in the absence of physical feedback, I guess the way to determine that is a sight picture learning matter.
Maybe I’m overthinking this - but it would be nice to do a smooth takeoff like they do in those real life Yak videos on YT 
No worries! I’m not the texture police.
But I was literally driven mad while trying to fix the propeller textures and I see your plane still with the white prop and I honestly felt like a PTSD episode incomin. 
So yeah… All good, I love making textures!
Nervously smiling with eye twitching
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@Bearhedge if you set nose up trim to where the pointer meets the first cable (about 45 degrees) it will fly off the runway with no rotation. You can the set your climb speed and trim it out.
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Haha yeah that’s a smooth takeoff 
Hmm nice, thank you! Maybe I was too shy on setting the nose up trim, I’ll do as you described tonight.
@komemiute I better get that bird reskinned asap to ease your twitching
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HAHAHAHAH it’s cool.
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Finally got the bird repainted!
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Nice job!
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Wow, nice moody pictures!
I felt like the Yak deserved a farewell flight after a fun month. 
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So… I have to add the fourth crash icon?
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Haha I actually turned back and landed at last light (it was interesting because I couldn’t see any of the gauges, too dark).
Indeed the Yak is probably my least crashed module, I don’t think I crashed it once when I wasn’t doing silly stuff. Of course, the silly stuff results in crashes in the Yak just like any other plane.
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I managed to lose two yaks this far. Once while driving @Victork2! Here gimme that stick, I’ll show you some of that pilot stuff… and ten seconds later we both were dead.
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The father in law of a colleague has a Yak-52, he got himself a nice new 3-bladed prop for it the other day…and then proceeded to do an unintended wheels up landing a couple of weeks later. Back to the 2-bladed prop he went…luckily the wheels up gear worked as advertised and there was no other damage!
Maybe I should suggest the Mudspike paint job for him