RCU Forums - View Single Post - Learning to Fly (self teaching)
View Single Post
Old 01-16-2005 | 03:42 PM
  #14  
geoffbeneze
Member
 
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 88
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
From: , ,
Default 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!