I will soon be flying my first RC aircraft, a piper cub I am building from scratch, I expect to experiance these same problems. as I have flown the real ones, definatly learn to use the rudder. I would sugest really long take off runs, but dont take off. just practicing getting to the point where the plane is light and jittery on the wheels, and then roll back on the throttle to settle back down. this will get you more familiar with keeping it straight at the most critical point in flight. and if stuff goes wrong atleast you still have the fuse and all radio gear. worst it can do is roll over.



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