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Old 05-25-2011 | 03:17 PM
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ORIGINAL: dredhea

The same advice we give to every beginner that gets a nice aircraft or two. Add a trainer type plane to your collection, find and join a local club that offers flight instruction and keep the ''nice'' airplanes in the garage until you gain the skills to fly them. Flying isn't hard, but you need to be taught properly. What you have there would be the equivelant of letting your teenage child learn to drive by entering them into the Daytona 500. Getting a flight instructor to teach you to fly will greatly improve your chances for success.
Letting an experienced builder check out your work at several points during the construction of these planes would also be a good idea. That would prevent getting to the field and being told that they aren't airworthy, or worse yet, finding out that they aren't airworthy while they're in the air. Many people don't understand the level of workmanship required to build a good, solid and most importantly, straight airframe. An experienced builder will save you from taking whole sections of your plane apart and rebuilding it to fix problems.
You got quite a deal on those models if they are in decent condition and complete ( all the parts are there).

I second that! Hello neighbor, (dredhea) I'm sure I've run into you at RedNeck R/C? Matter in fact I just ordered another engine from Marty today.


I've seen a few new people show up with a AMA card at our field and a nice Warbird, only to crash it and leave the hobby. Be safe than sorry and join a club and get a trainer. All clubs have a person that traines people to learn how to fly and it's free! What they will do is they will teather your radio into theirs, and they will get the trainer off the ground and they will guide you through on how to do turns, level flights, figure 8's and will teach you to land and take off.

Also the club elders will go through your plane with you and will help you make sure the aircraft is safe to fly and will help you learn what and not to do when building, flying and how to adjust your plane and engine settings.

I've been at this hobby for about 10 years and I still have a lot to learn myself, but I can help people who have a few less years in this hobby.

Welcome! And I hope to see you at RCU more often.


Pete