In article , wrote: | | Malcolm Fisher wrote: | | > Lesson number 1: | >
| > Do you steer your car or bicycle with your thumb? No!
That's my winner for `worst analogy of the day' award! Congratulations!
Last I checked, you don't steer your car or bicycle with a little stick held between your thumb and finger either. By your analogy, we probably shouldn't fly R/C planes like that either?
| > It's a bad habit to get into.
Perhaps it's not ideal, but I'm not sure it really qualifies as a `bad habit'.
| > Don't use your thumb on the sticks because you have less control and it | > might slip off, grip it properly between index and thumb.
I've heard that holding it between your finger and thumb will give you more control, and I have noticed that more of the `really good' pilots do this than the `average' pilots (like me.) However, your thumb alone does not just `slip off'.
| > and after graduating from push button single channel have always | > used my thumbs on the sticks as I don't have, and don't want a | > transmitter tray such as those I have seen helicopter pilots | > using. | | Well a proper instructor would have stopped you developing that habit.
And in my experience, 1) most people fly with their thumbs, and 2) this includes most instructors. (Though if one of your requirements for being a `proper' instructor is to not fly with your thumbs, then I guess none of the `proper' instructors do.)
| And you don't need a tray for either, not even a neckstrap.
I never did like neckstraps.
| Nothing stopping anyone using their big toe, but the pros don't fumble | with their fumbs.
Some do, from what I've seen. Well, to be more precise, they sometimes use their thumbs, but usually don't fumble. But yes, a far higher percentage of the `pros' use their finger/thumb than do in the general R/C flier population, and I doubt this is a conicidence.