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Old 12-11-2003 | 10:01 AM
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Crashem
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Default RE: Risks at the first fly ?????????

C 130,

Get a sim and spend more time on it then here. Its next to impossible to "teach" someone how to fly in a forum!!!! While you'll get good advice you have no frame of reference for instance the following quote "and as slow as you can go without stalling" how slow can you go without stalling well that depends on the particular model's stall speed.

My advice get a small light weight parkflyer like the GWS Tigermoth and learn in baby steps the tiger moth is a good plane to start with easy to repair and light enough to survive crashes that would total traditional .40 size balsa trainers.

The only drawback is that its going to cost you more in terms of both time and money to progress to where you would be if you learned on a glow trainner. You are going to need to master the tigermoth then a parkflyer with airlerons then some higher performance parkflyers like the GWS zero or P-51 before you will be ready to take on sport glow planes and or high performance electrics. The good news is you'll have a blast flying different planes getting proficient.