ORIGINAL: red_z06

I am curious to see at what age kids are starting to fly RC in general and 3D. My son got started on Aerofly Pro. When he was 1 1/2, he was handed a buddy box for Aerofly Pro control. He could not talk yet so no attemps were made to teach him other than him watching me fly. The usual blast off and smack happend for a while. Then one day, before he turned 2 I think, he was actually flying ( in control ). I then started paying more attention to what he was doing but still could not tell/teach him what to do as he would not listen. He tried to mimic knife edge flying but he still hadn't discovered CORRECTION. Then one day, he discovered adding rudder to knife edge and the rest is history.

He was born on 7/21/2002 and his official stick experience at my flying field was on 6/26/2005 or at 2years and 11 months.

He is now on Aerofly Pro Deluxe Flight Sim everyday and his most feared punishment is having his transmitter ( control for AFPD ) taken away.

I restricted his flying to desert field on afpd to instill no fly zone ( pit area ) and after a while it seems to be working as he yells " Don't fly over the pit area!" as I happened to wonder into pit area.

We just came back from NEAT Fair 2005 where he flew his Hobbistar 60 Electric on a buddy box ( take off but no landing ).

Somehow all his skills ( high speed knife-edge circuit, high alpha knife-edge, inverted flat spin, 4 point roll, inverted circuit, harrier, inverted harrier, hover with rudder touch ) don't seem to transfer to field flying as seems to be scared to crash ( experienced funtana 40, 90 and hobbistar 60 crash ) and seem to dependent on buddy box recovery.

I decided to sacrifice my Tensor 4D in order to fix this problem. He soloed my Tensor 4D and took off from the paved runway and demonstrated harrier, torque roll, inverted harrier and landing ( not so good as he deems landing boring ) all at about eye level.

Tomorrow, I will attempt to capture this on video.