"You seem to be fishing for something… " - I noticed the same thing. Normally I don't check prior posts, but this time I did because something didn’t feel right when I read the original post.

For any beginner reading this thread, if your goal is to fly giant scale, be it a 30% extra, or a super chipmunk, or if your goal is to fly jets, or scale warbirds, or whatever… You must learn to crawl before you can climb the mountain. Ask any giant scale hot shot pilot, or jet jockey, and they will all tell you they started with a trainer and took many small steps with intermediate planes to get to where they are now.

Flying takes commitment, practice and help. But don’t let this discourage you. You will have a lot of fun during the learning process.

Learning to flying is not like RC cars/trucks/buggies. Most folk from the RC car community understand this. I was just out flying a park flier yesterday near a RC dirt track. One of the better RC car guys jokingly offered to trade controls… he of course knew what the results would be. With the RC land vehicles, about anyone can handle a low end $100 vehicle, or the tricked out $1,000 vehicle. Even someone who has never driven a RC car can pick up the controls and drive it around. It doesn’t work that way with the planes.

There is a lot of very good advice on this forum. 99% of the advice is sound, and after a bit of reading you can easily tell which posters are the experienced pilots. While none of us are right 100% of the time, anything from piper_chuck, bubbagates, RCKen Bruce88123, britbrat and the like can be taken as good advice. Mayhem, if you have a problem with the advice, then maybe flying isn’t for you.

Cheers.