14 RC Terms You’re Using WRONG 

Thank you. Exactly what the R/C community needs. What you missed? Probably the tendency to call all rolls 'barrel rolls', all wing drops 'tip stalls', and vertical climbouts 'vertical takeoffs'.

I stay in a state of confusion, as long as I have lift I can comprehend 😂

As my dad always said” A rose with a different name, still smells the same!” Us old guy’s used to call aerobatic maneuvers, stunt or pattern! And what about ETRM’s. Great stuff again Zack. 😊

Loved the video, and the implementation of the fail safe check was hilarious 😂

I’ve gotta tell you, you are the only reason I am into RC planes. Keep it up!

I've been waiting all week for this, and thank you for returning to weekly uploads!

Always appreciate the knowledge. Thanks 👨‍✈️😁😎👍🏼

Great video once again! Informative and funny, 10/10

Nice work guys!!!! Excellent explanations. You are an aero-nautical reference 😀

Most servos stop working long before the receiver system voltage reaches the lower operating threshold of the receiver which is 3.5V for most receivers now in production. You most likely had a full signal with the plane but servos incapable of doing what they are told. That 5V 2A BEC in that cheap ESC is marginally able to power the servos on the ground let alone in the air with aerodynamic loads on them. Lesson to learn don’t under power your control system, power your receiver and servos appropriately.

That last clip.....I love doing those stalled flips into harrier landings idk why but I do it often or at least the quick snap flip into harrier or hover

U LADS ARE GREAT SUCH UNIQUE AND IMAGINATIVE VIDEOS. SO HAPPY I MET U ON PILOT RYAN'S LIVE STREAM. HAPPY EASTER 🐣🐇🐰🇬🇧🇺🇲🕊️✌🏼👍🏼

Cool and interesting video buddy ! Thanks for these info

Great Video! The terminology slang can get folks confused quick. Just a note at 6:57 , Boeing recommends landing in a crab in high crosswinds to avoid dragging an engine across the runway:) The 757 actually has a 40 knot crosswind landing limit! I have had to do this many times in the 757 to avoid scraping metal:). While it is correct to have your tires parallel to the runway at touchdown, its actually a necessity to land in a crab in many planes with under-wing mounted engines. Boeing has designed the gear to take that abuse & landing the plane in a crab saves you a trip to the Chief pilots office:) That was actually a excellent example of a crab landing in high winds in a 757... having a wet runway helps a lot when you have to perform this kind of landing! Also, the deep stall encountered with the FMS 64mm Rafale is somewhat exacerbated by the fact that the canards don't move as they do in the full scale or 80mm version, so there's no way to unload the nose to get it out of the stalled condition:) To be more correct regarding terminology, I prefer to use the terms "forward CG" and "aft CG" instead of "Nose Heavy" and "Tail Heavy." For many, the terms "Nose Heavy" and "Tail Heavy" seem to be perceived as the CG not being in a reasonably flyable position which is often true. Keep the great videos coming:)

I LOVE ALL 14 !!!!...you guys are "SMART FELLAS"....or is it..." fart smellers"???? ...TY for all you guys do...Lee

Thank you so very much for this Eye opening video, I absolutely enjoyed it. I usually don't make many comments, but I just had to say something about this one. In fact I have never seen any of your videos I don't like. Thanks again for your wonderful wonderful videos.

Good explanation. Old habits are hard to break. 👍🏻🙂

This helped me understand a crash I had earlier today, thanks. No damage BTW, it was a volentex 400mm f4u going low and slow so I just had to search for the prop. That baby can take a beating and not care at all

Vids like this are why I subbed/liked!

Love this! I’m definitely going to have watch this a few more times. Overall, I still feel pretty good about myself after watching. Lol!

Nice, thanks for the new upload

Omg I just dies when he said "let me check your failsafe" switches the controller off and the plane falls to its death. That's funny shit man 4:32

Freaking awesome video guys!!

Useful stuff!

This vido is gonna become useful in discussions :D

awesome vid!

Ooof, Im officially embarrassed...changing video title as of right now 😂😂 good stuff man! this was a very relatable video for me!

Thx for the tips

great video!

Have you covered Tip Stall? One of my favourites. Don't know why the grumpy old modellers want to argue this with the 20 year aerobatic pilot and flying instructor, but it's fun! They get the idea i.e. know the wing has stalled more at the tip than the root. But they miss the little details.

My little T-28 foamie is very difficult to get into a spin condition, which is unfortunate because it looks so cool.

THP uploading is a great birhtday present!

I had a loss of signal, then crashed, then realized I just had a brownout......in my pants.

8:37 iM gOnnA hAVe 2 cAlL tHe fAA!

Thought experiment, what do you call a sailplane landing where you touchdown on the main(single) and tailwheel at the same time? ;)

LOL Most people over time figure it out, if not, oh well just fly and have some fun. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya

You forgot bad flying vrs the old men screaming that there “ must be some kid out there with a signal jammer!!!!!!!” - and yes they are serious

To make matters even worse, Beta is also correctly used to indicate a case where the power lever is primarily controlling pitch rather than power, typically used at low thrust conditions where the throttle response of a turboprop is unusually slow so pitch is adjusted instead and the inertia of the prop is used to add thrust while the engine power catches up, This range also includes the braking/reverse thrust regime on turboprop aircraft so equipped. It's often incorrectly also used for reverse thrust (which is in the beta regime, but not the only part of it)

good video exelent knowlage

We have a few on our field that are made up. “Marked It” we have a guy on the field that is named Mark. He crashes very often and usually leaves a 3 inch crater in the field where a plane went full speed into the ground. Leaving marks and scars on the field. When someone else does it other than mark, we say “Marked it!” “Wack!” Is actually a term used in hang gliders, when a glider is landing and crashes by having the nose of the glider hits the ground. Everyone shouts “wack!” Same thing for Rc planes that are tail draggers. When the nose smacks the ground, we will all yell “wack!” “Going for pizza” is when a aircraft overshoots the runway and lands on the taller grass. I don’t know why it has to do anything with going for pizza but it’s used at the field and I’ve never questioned about it. “Walk of shame” is when a aircraft flips, wacks or gets stuck in or by the runway and a individual has to walk out on the runway in front of everyone to retrieve their airplane.

Helpful and informative as always! Thanks I need all the help I can get not to sound like an idiot

"brownout is a loss of control specifically caused by a receiver voltage sagging due to your Rat's Nest of cables, old and terrible receiver battery, weak sauce BEC or your 39 Cent Alibaba switch being incapable of powering the circles or receiver" Nah, that is just one part of what it can be. Brownout simply and specifically means voltage-sagging below the specified operation level. That can have many other reasons like you just flying too long, the battery getting too hot, having a shared battery for motor, receiver and servos and no BEC (that has not been that uncommon), a motor that draws too high spike currents for the circuit etc. Specially with early generation digital receivers getting a brownout was fatal: The digital logic could hang up during a brownout and would not recover until fully disconnected from the supply-voltage. This happened a lot when people just upgraded from analog to digital - first long flight in nice weather, flying nearly as long as the battery can handle, and during the landing-approach with higher loads from the servos the receiver would brownout and the plane crash. Good receivers have brownout protection/recovery, and better yet would be a fully redundant receiver power supply. And i mean there can always be unforeseen circumstances: Some of the digital servos would stay in the last received position of the control-signal would drop. So everything is fine, a small gust of wind and you gotta use rudder/ailerons for a short time at max deflection - and you crashed. The sudden increase in powerdraw from the servos working against the wind caused the voltage to just sagg enough to brown-out the controller, so now the signal is lost and the servors keep drawing full current and thus keep the voltage low.

Downwind stall, got to love people

@5:55- I usually just say "I'm doin' a space shuttle approach." If you know, you know.

No way those videos from the Oregon kids and Ryan actually got put in here 💀

Group loop is one I've had to correct people on.

A brownout is something hot and steamy that appears in your pants, followed by swearing at Spektrum transmitter in one’s hands.

Learned today....I used high alpha knife edge....inlove flying in high beta knife edge and now I know the correct terminology

Let's Go 🔥

Address “tip stall” That one comes up a lot. And, you could do a whole show on airspeed vs groundspeed and convince no one.

The next time you journey by air in one of those oversized, people-carrying models, remember that aircraft do not park on the tarmac. They park on an apron. Tarmac != apron! Tarmac is an old road paving system made by coating crushed gravel (macadam) with tar. If you overhear some father explain to his kid that their aircraft is ready on the tarmac, make sure to give him the correct term to use. He'll thank you for it, that's for sure! 🙂

Another time to use SAFE is for that unexpected bug bite or sneaky sneeze that catches you off guard.

Another great "teaching" video with plenty of humor thrown in ! I'll watch it a few more times!

Great instructions as always. In this case, however, I have to say that the background music noise made it very difficult to hear easily. I have no idea what purpose it could serve other than to be annoying. Thanks very much, nonetheless.

just remember folks, a 90° angle is definetely a stall. but then again, apparently, not everyone actually knows, what a stall is

I pray you covered the all too used term Tip Stall!!! Most don't even have a clue what a real tip stall is!!!! I've given up on trying to educate the "tip stall" maniacs!!!

11:52 Motor is electric, not electrical (electrical refers to machines producing electricity). Another term that is used so often, but not strictly related to flying, just RC model terminology is left and right handed props. The copters changed it totally nowadays and reverted something that as been going on for 100+ years.

What is it called when you wreck on take off cause it pulls to hard to the left with a prop plane

Tanks

The guy turning off the transmitter and the guy that knocks the transmitter out of the kids hands causing the airplanes to crash doesn't belong in the hobby. He'd get his clock knocked out if he tried that around here especially if he did it to me. I'd have no mercy.

I was flying my crack lazer and i lost my battery while pulling up from my loop, i built it good and it glides pretty good xD

Gee, I always thought a "Brown out" what when you get into a "Oh shit!" moment and it's gets worse enough that you actually shit yourself. No?

Shoutout to mentour pilots content…I watch all his videos

I’m about to get a safe giro after lawn darting my plane so hard there was a crater.

Where can I get that clip of that guy turning the transmitter off ??😂😂

I'm not sure if you're into cars, but if so maybe a video about those terminologies.

Hey! I think that's how I've tested every failsafe....once

Short stack, Tall stack, Yard sale, Shot down (old FM days, you know that guy that's to lazy to change crystals even though you had that channel first, 72.670 ch44 thank you.). Dang I didn't know there were so many new terms for RC flight. Like the 170 inverted flat spin, who makes that model?

Aaah! I'm not at the field to school anyone. I'm there to fly ! I'll answer questions, but I'm not a pilot. I do have experience in electronics & have an A&P so I rip out "stuff" when I get a new Arocraft...ha

You didn't mention Low-Gamma landings! Hmph.

Huh! I ain't doing any of those high Beta aerobatics. I do only high Alpha flying like the Alpha I am!😁

3D flying isn't a crime. But 2D flying is a crime against physics.

Awesome collection of misconceptions. One addition regarding to brownout: A Loss of signal but also a violent stall or even a near-miss can cause a brownout. Bring spare pants!

I was expecting you to clear there air about tip stalls. Maybe next time ;)

5:30 technically the glideslope IS the path the airplane takes to the runway, but that path is indicated either by your instruments or the PAPI lights (Or other fancies like PAR OLS). Obviously RC strips dont have established glideslopes to refer to.

Funny story - I posted a query on one of the RC groups on Facebook some time ago and someone commented Brown Out. I thought they were being racist until now. 👀

I thought a brown out just meant you were flying a Spectrum radio? BTW ,although not a technical term, a company called Fromeco, you hear it pronounced Fromco they drop the "e", Fro-me-co, not From-co.

You completely missed the myth of the "Tip stall."

4:39 hurts me

I think “one point landing” is a good descriptive term…

4:24 what the heck. Have I missed something? Why is he doing that?

A brown out is when you shit your pants and it shows on your trousers.

If I say, 'I watched your video while taking a brown-out', is that correct usage of the term?

4:24 wtf source?

Alpha Lock... Engaged!

I think Ik Ryan Johnson 😂

I want to know the story about the bro who knocks the Tx out of that kids hands.

Since we're talking aircraft words: Is there anyone out there who didn't realize that Citabria spelled backwards is Airbatic? I guess the correct name of a Citabria should be a Citaborea? 🤔

Funny - basically everywhere else in the world is is called acrobatics - airplane/aircraft/RC-acrobatics. But the US gotta be different :P

You missed two very important terms Airspeed vs Ground speed. Many of my Non Full Scale R/C Buddy's Really don't under stand the Difference. Example they don't under stand that when Landing into a stiff Head wind that their airplane is NOT really Flying SLOW. They are Confusing Perceptual SPEED i.e. GROUND SPEED actual speed across the ground Papering to be TOO SLOW. While the RELITIVE WIND over the wings is the same no mater if in a HEAD Wind or No wind or a Tail Wind Condition. They just believe it's too slow.

beaver bush conversion???!!!

Hello I’m mr 🦇

I'm putting flight controllers into all of my planes just to spite those who are against gyro. Suck it. My plane can literally fly itself.

I know as a fact that all my planes have a 0 mph stall speed.

You left out “tip stall” ....

Disagree with ground slope we use that with UAVs all the time

If you are interested in RC flight and don't watch Tail Heavy, you're doing it wrong.

Tip stalls? Did I miss it? Did you miss it? How could you miss "tip stalls"? Pst. It's not a thing.

I fly to create events and become a better pilot, not avoid events.

"SAFE" is a trademarked, proprietary implementation of auto-level (and other features), so it is not "RC terminology"