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Old 12-03-2004 | 04:47 AM
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Default RE: Any positive tips on self teaching on .40 trainer

I agree with above posts, it's a bit more tricky than it looks.

If you're absolutely going to do this yourself I suggest you get a small, cheap electric parkflyer...A GWS slowstick perhaps?
It's of highest importance that you learn the orientation and get your brain to mirror the stick movements when you're plane is coming towards you.
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Most beginner tend to overcontrol, there's no remedy for this except keeping the control throws small and use some exponential in the radio...Then practice.

Sorry to say, but I don't think you're gonna make the first turn.
You're likely to take off, and perhaps climb out if you're keeping cool and not controling the plane too much, then you'll feed in som aileron to make the turn, plane will bank, a bit too much, then you overcontrol on the opposite aileron and spiral down to crash...But hey, video it and proof us pessimists wrong

Edit: Someone mentioned helicopters.
I build and learned how to hover a Raptor 50 without instructor or sim, the thing with a helicopter is that you can progress slowly and go from skidding, to hovering, to skidding to stop.
A plane is diffrent because it need speed to fly and once it takes off, it'll have to come down with speed to keep flying on the wing.