Originally Posted by speedracerntrixie

The one thing that stood out to me was the topic of coordinating turns with rudder. While I don’t disagree with that statement, not setting aileron differential up on the airplane makes that issue worse. In many cases the differential takes care of the adverse yaw that makes the turns look un coordinated. Having an airplane nose down sharply after establishing a bank angle could be a CG too far forward. Of course these things need to be evaluated on a case by case basis. The general comment about warbirds having a roll couple may or may not effect every warbird. A P-51 with scale dihedral does in fact have a roll couple with rudder application. Reduce the dihedral and set up a small amount of rudder to aileron mix and it can be all but eliminated.

Originally Posted by jester_s1

Agreed on aileron differential. Having more up than down can make the plane neutral or even have proverse yaw, making the trainer a lot easier to fly for beginner pilots. For the life of me, I can't understand why someone would intentionally fly a plane that has such an annoying quirk when it is so easy to fix.

Originally Posted by Tphage

I am one of those people who due to present life circumstances cannot attend a club. By the time I am free enough to attend a club, I may be too old to fly besides who knows what awaits any of us right around the corner. If I am going to take up this hobby, after years of procrastination, I need to make it happen now.

Although I have some control line modelling background, reasonable electronics knowledge and a fair understanding of aerodynamics, I have still found the learning curve over the last month to be almost vertical. This has been primarily due to two things : 1) Buying a BNF Apprentice STS 1.5, instead of the RTF version and 2 ) having my head start spinning when I turned on my radio Tx for the first time, scrolling through the screens and wondering how the heck I am going to put those two things together to get a working model. To experienced rc-ers, terms like expo, absolute travel, trim, sub-trim, channel assign, channel input configuration, etc. etc. as well as wondering about setting up things like failsafes and telemetry, may be simple, but to me they were almost overwhelming.

A major part of the confusion at the time was not realising that many of these things were not even necessary to program but the issue was not knowing what items needed attention and what could be left alone.

In hindsight, as a beginner who was always going to have to be self-taught, it would have been best to buy the RTF version, but on the other hand, I have learned an encyclopedia or two over the last month !

I thank everyone for their contributions to help us beginners get a start in what is increasingly looking like an amazing hobby.