Originally Posted by buzzard bait

I flew three channel, rudder, elev, throttle for about six years before I flew my first aileron plane. There was virtually no learning curve at all. That's because I set up my three channel planes as above, rudder on right stick. The dihedral made it roll, as other explained.

On my last 3 channel plane I also used my computer radio to get rudder off both the right and the left stick. Then I taught myself to taxi and do the take off run with the left stick and switched to the right stick when it was flying. That made the transition from 3 to 4 channels absolutely a non-issue.

However, my first aileron plane was not a Corsair! It was a trainer. I quickly realized it was not necessary and went to a low wing sport plane easily. But it still wasn't a Corsair.

Three channel planes are usually more self correcting, as someone said...release the stick and they tend to right themselves. But not always; some will drop into a spiral dive if not pulled out of a turn with opposite rudder, much as an aileron must be pulled out of a turn with opposite aileron.

Jim