SoonerAce, seeing your sig kind of reminds me of the "DA"-Slogan:

"Gravity - it is not a guideline, it is the law" (with DA standing for Darwin Awards, of course).

Anyway, thanks for the info. I did not even know that RC planes could be flown with a student-teacher control. It makes sense, though I think I am an utter newbie after all

Oh, and thanks for the greetings "Guten Morgen" to you from here Its 2 am and I just cannot sleep. Been having some personal problems lately, so that is probably what keeps me awake.

I am really sad I only visited the US once in my life (yet), since I had my most thrilling experience ever during my stay in the US in 1998. We were driving along either a highway or interstate from Ft. Lauderdale to Miami one day, and all of a sudden my buddy hit the brakes on this Audi 5000 p-o-s, almost making me hit my head on the dashboard. I was going to yell at him, but at the same second, a 2-engine plane (I think I remember it being called a "Citation" in the news that day) was flying by us, making a landing right there on the highway.

It turned out to be a "regular" landing, though, not a crash, so after checking with the pilot and staying with him until the police arrived, we were on our way.

And after telling this story back in Germany, I (an 18-year-old back then) I learned that actually most of the straight parts of the Autobahn could be converted to runways in a matter of 2 to 3 hourds, with lighting and all the stuff only having to be attached to pre-placed pits and poles. Pretty amazing, how close WWIII was in the last century...

Cheers
Sebastian