ORIGINAL: SeenMCrash
For the beginner who's never before seen a model plane fly, much less actually flown one, the elevator makes the plane go up.
I simply believe that if we train people we should give them correct information from the beginning. Too many beginners and intermediate flyers believe the elevator makes the plane go up and end up in perpetual stalls because the plane is sinking and they pull back even harder because somebody told them the elevator makes the plane go up.
Anybody who has the aptitude to fly an R/C plane in the first place should be able to understand the concept of the elevator changing the attitude of the plane but that it won't necessarily make the plane go up. It's not exactly the same category of explaining nuclear fission.