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Old 05-30-2005 | 01:30 PM
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Default RE: how do u take off

Depends on the set up of the plane, the type of wing, and the wing loading. Most of my planes only require that you hold a little up elevator to keep it from nosing in, throttle up to full and steer it straight down the runway. When it reaches flying speed it will lift off by itself and start climbing. Then just switch from steering with the left stick (rudder) to steering with the right stick (ailerons). when the plane has reached a good altitude make your first turn away from you and fly the circuit. At this point you will probably want to throttle to 1/2 or so for a more reasonable flying speed. Some of my planes "stick" to the ground. For take off on these planes, I throttle up to start the take off run and when the plane has reached good speed which is about 2/3 of the way down the runway I have to start adding in up elevator to get the plane to take off. Does this sound like the info you were lookinf for??[8D]