RE: Learning to Fly (self teaching)
>Something I forgot to mention in all my blabbering.
>ALWAYS try to keep the airplane upwind. (Wind blowing in your face). If it gets downwind too far, the "Goddess of little >Airplanes" can take control and you can lose orientation and in most cases lose it all.
Oh boy, have you hit THAT one on the head. The worst crash I ever had wasn't some thumb-dumb on my part, but misjudging the wind and letting the plane get "down there."
No way of getting it back to where I was. I was busting thumbs to get it down when a LARGE tree ate the thing!