When learning to fly 3D with a plane that doesnt have a landing gear is it best to just have lots of props and foam safe medium ca glue. the props because if you skid down then the prop will probably snap, and if you hit the ground hard enough you need something to quickly fix it. Is this the best teqnique for learning 3D??

Maidin

Definitely CA and props! After you get the hang of hovering, just reach out and grab it! still... www.aeroflypro.com is the best learning tool.

To land. go into a harrier a few inches off the deck and just cut the throttle. It should just plop down without doing any damage.

Yeah, that's another good reason to have your CG back a little...that way it will fall flat on the ground easily and not smoosh the nose or prop up!

Maidin,

I'm not quite to the point of being able to catch it, but I found that if I practiced flying past myself as low and slow as possible, hanging on the prop ("harrier," I guess) and trying to drag the tail in the grass, I could just chop the power at the last instant and it would pancake-land very nicely. I haven't broken any props this way. They do get grass-stained.

The only airframe damage I've experienced is when I got brave and started trying to do tail-dragging touch-and-goes. Then a couple times it hit while spooling up to full throttle and broke the motor mount out. Banana plugs between the motor and the speed control saved the day in that case -- motor broke out, plug disconnected, motor stopped instantly. I'm not sure what would've happened if it had been hard-wired, but I figured it couldn't hurt to have connectors in the system. If nothing else, it's convenient -- I can use the same speed control for more than one airplane this way.

Duane

Try to make your own landing gear. If not catch it in a hover like ghee-grose said.