ORIGINAL: HoundDog
ORIGINAL: combatpigg
I learned with a 2 channel glider and was self taught from that point on. I don't see any hard fast, one size fits all type rules that everybody needs to follow. Learning how to master yaw control can be done at the new pilot's leisure if he is flying a plane that is otherwise fully capable of safe flight with just pitch and roll control.
<span style=''font-family: Comic Sans MS;''><span style=''font-size: larger;''><span style=''color: rgb(0, 0, 0);''>Pitch and Roll Control are not enough to fly down a flight line with 4 or so other pilots and their spotters standing on the line ... it's just not safe.</span></span></span>. <span style=''font-family: Comic Sans MS;''><span style=''font-size: larger;''><span style=''color: rgb(0, 0, 0);''>I agree a plane is capable of controled flight with just Pitch (Eleavator) and Roll (aileron) Up in the air but not landing and take off, this needs rudder. Why else did the AMA require all jets to have Rudder(s)</span></span></span>. <span style=''font-family: Comic Sans MS;''><span style=''font-size: larger;''><span style=''color: rgb(0, 0, 0);''>Not useing Rudder on landing and Take off is the reason so many wing tips get scrached to bits and there are so many close calls on the flight line. It's an ignorant or at least uninformed pilot that thinks a rudder is unesential for good fling habbits and proper safty. </span></span></span><span style=''font-family: Comic Sans MS;''><span style=''font-size: larger;''><span style=''color: rgb(0, 0, 0);''>Heck even the Wright Brothers had a rudder Long before Alierons.</span></span></span>
Your post reveals that you have a pretty limited background in this sport.
One of my first RC planes was single channel and it was never any problem to glide it home while others were standing at the pilot stations.
Early on, my other planes were rudder / elevator with lots of dihedral in the wing to give them sporty turning ability and these planes posed no danger to any other pilots as they glided home either.
I had to have had one of the most painless and care free RC learning experiences, because it took the hobby shop owner a 1/2 hour to "solo me" on the 2 channel glider [behind his shop] and I flew the wings off several 2-3 channel planes before moving up to a plane that needed the rudder set up [on channel 4 instead of channel 1] out of necessity. So my first "big" plane was a 4 channel Ugly Stick with a hot Fox .40 that by this time I was more than ready for, and learning the rudder by that time was simply intuitive.
Guys who learn on SIMs and cheap park flyers have similar backgrounds to mine and they'll probably tell you the same thing...start out slow, cheap, small and light...get super proficient at that and then throw yaw control on the dinner plate with a "full house" plane after the basics have been mastered on the truly basic trainers.