Originally Posted by
rgburrill
Lots of good info so I'll just say one thing. There is one very important item you will bring from your truggie experience - control reversal when coming toward you. That can be a major problem for people with no experience at all. My first instructor was very happy that I had land and water experience before getting into planes because I understood control reversal.
The great advice just keeps coming in this thread. Again I agree this is a big issue when learning to fly RC aircraft.
At age 14 my own RC instructor gave me the best advice I ever heard in this hobby..
"
When the plane is coming TOWARDS you, push your aileron towards the LOW wing to LEVEL the wings"
Suddenly it "clicked" in my head and I can honestly say I have never wrong thumbed an RC fixed wing coming towards me ever since.
30 + years later I overheard a similar piece of advice in a Hobby Shop that specialised in RC Helicopters"
"When hovering nose in (nose facing you) , push your stick TOWARDS the drift to stop the drift"
Works every time!