CHassan

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My dad bummed flights from a local pilot (one of the 6 or so in the area) He got hooked, and bought some junk from another pilot. (butterfly with a .049) and a radio. We went through several gliders, the Gentle Lady was the favorite and longest lasting. Once that went in we picked up a fresh new Goldberg Sky Tiger. OS 40 sf. And went from there.

impulse

I first learned on a fighterbird, 2 channel plane. It was a good plane and taught me the importance of approach for landings seeing it had no elevator. I went from that to a hobbico SuperStar with a os .40 LA. I learned with a instructor of which this fields has the most difficult and detailed training. After about 16 flights including multiple simulated dead stick landings, learning s-turns to burn speed, and shifting the trims on the radio during mid flight I was ready.

They have a list of things you have to accomplish, horizontal figure 8's etc and ending with a true dead stick landing.

traxxboy

Firebird XL and hours on microsoft flight sim.

FlyBy8

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First day: Balsa USA Ugly Stick that had been repaired so many times that it probably weighed 3lbs more than when it was first built from all the glues and screws. Bought a 6 channel computerized radio to get me in the air. Once I got the engine running I planned on just taxing around on the ground until I got use to it (yeah right!). After about the third pass on the runway and at about 3/4 throttle, I pulled back on the stick and I was air born for the first time. Had a ball that day (for about 10 minutes) until I realized that I would have to land....

Second day: This Ugly Stick was sooo Ugly that it could barely make left hand turns. So I got good at making right hand turns at full throttle (hadn't realized yet that the left stick would slow things down a bit). Kind of the inverse of a Nascar race in the air...
Before the second flight of the day, I decided to save off the trim settings and re-center the adjustments. Made a big mistake in saving the trim setting once for each trim adjustment control (I didn't know any better) thus giving me 3 times the trim settings needed for straight and level flight. Needless to say, the next flight was a combination of knife edge and sometimes inverted flight. Still had fun that day...