Fabulous thread! Great adventures that all of us "self taught" flyers can sympathize with. The really dumb thing I did in the beginning was to insist on learning to fly on too small of a field. The problem with crashing is the tendency to become emotionally paranoid such that emotion overcomes common sense especially under high stress conditions, too low, too high, too far away, too much wind, etc., and crash again.


Those were the days. Motor powered gliders worked very well to help settle my nerves down. When I finally gave up trying to fly my planes on small fields I enjoyed my very first full flight that ran the battery all the way to cut off voltage. I just met four fairly new R/C flyers and found that three of them learned on a flight sim before finally flying the real thing which I recommend as the best way to go.


Hang in there everybody, hope to see some of you scrambling on the fighter threads sooner or later.


Out,