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Old 01-12-2006, 10:04 AM
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bryris
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Default RE: Nexstar solo w/o Instructor...what are my odds?


ORIGINAL: agexpert

Based on what you listed as related experience, I would normally say 50-50, but since you have 1000 hrs of full scale experience, well....that brings it down to a nearly zero-percent chance of success.

The heli experience brings it back up to 25% chance of success, assuming the heli is not a toy electric indoor heli.

Many full scale pilots fly at my field and they all agree that it is a detriment to flying R/C at first. (I wonder if my limited R/C experience will make it hard for me to learn to fly full scale planes....Mmmmm).


Good Luck!!
I must be in the minority. I have about 400 hours of full scale and it has helped me much more than it has hurt. In full scale, you train to know all the ins and outs of what makes a plane fly and you bring this knowledge to the rc field. Doesn't help on perspective, no doubt, but aerodynamics, it certainly helped me.