2 Finger Pinch or Thumbs

[HRRC Flyer]

I haven't flown in so long, I don't remember. . . . . . . I used my thumbs while I was learning to fly, but shortly after I soloed I tried a neck strap and started to pinch the sticks and I haven't looked back.

There is a third method that I wonder how many of you use. I call it the "Modified" pinch method and I've only seen one person use it. My flying buddy puts pads of his thumbs near the tips on the back of the sticks at the top where the grooves are and wedges the front of the sticks about a third of the way down between the first and second joints in his index fingers. It may sound strange, but my buddy is the best pilot I know so I know it works.

So, who else out there uses this method?

 

[Luchnia]

I have tried pinch some, but just does not suit me for some reason. I guess since I use a neck strap it works better to use my thumbs for working the sticks. I see some guys that fly with their radios almost at their knees with the antenna pointing downward. That totally amazes me.

 

[Xtreme_Power_RCS]

Close toll here! didn't think it would be

 

[acerc]

Close toll here!

Works for me!

 

[orthobird]

pinch.

 

[BalsaDust]

All pinch here.

 

[-Rick-]

Pinch here. From day one, and I like long sticks.

 

[les2097]

If you pinch...a big benefit is flying inverted as all you have to do is take your index finger off the elevator stick and you can't pull the stick backward, toward yourself, thus eliminating mistakes causing a crash into the dirt....!!!

Try it....

 

[pawnshopmike]

If you pinch...a big benefit is flying inverted as all you have to do is take your index finger off the elevator stick and you can't pull the stick backward, toward yourself, thus eliminating mistakes causing a crash into the dirt....!!!

Try it....

I'll have to experiment with that on the simulator. Thanks for the tip.

 

[thtoyman]

Pinch or Thumbs
, I did pinch one time. but now I can't get my little finger close to the sticks. so all thumbs. just to hard when you not have them all