Hi All,
First off I'd like to thank many of you on this forum for all the good advice, and help you've given me. I started flying back in late March/early April on an Alpha .40 with an instructor, in early June I soloed, and have been flying a PK Trojan, and a Sig Kadet. I fly as much as the weather will permit (rain, winds ) on average I fly about four days a week, I got a real nice 1400mm FMS V7 P-51 with flaps, and retracts a couple of months ago but I hav'nt flown it yet, I feel I need more stick time. The other day I flew a guys FMS 1100mm Hellcat (no flaps, or retracts) on the first take off the Hellcat pitched to the left on take off, but I gave it a little right rudder, and all was well, and I flew her and landed her pretty good. The thing I noticed with the Hellcat is you can't relax, that plane must be flown every second it's in the air unlike the Trojan. Because of the flaps, and retracts, and the fact that the P-51 is a nice plane I still feel I should have more stick time before I fly it, no sence destroying a nice plane just because Im in a hurry. What I want to do is get the Tower Hobby Hellcat, and fly that all winter and hopfully by this spring I'll be ready for the P-51. Also I really like the FMS B-25 Mitchell bomber, it's a twin engine (motor) and trike landing gear, but I have no idea of what it takes to fly a twin engine plane, if it's easier or harder, or pretty much the same as a single engine warbird, I could be very wrong here, but Im thinking because it's twin engine it might be easier to take off, and because it's a trike it might be easier to land. I'd sure appriciate it if some of you guys who fly twin engine planes would chime in and tell me a little about flying a twin engine warbird.
Thanks Much,
Paul