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Old 03-26-2007 | 01:57 PM
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Default Three Channel or Four?

This goes out to the flight instructors on the forum.
When I went to the Northwest Hobby Expo this last weekend, I had a couple of things I was looking for. The first was some good deals, which there were very few of, and the second was local flying clubs with instructors.
There were two flying clubs represented, one in the host city of Monroe(30 minutes away) and the other is 5 minutes from my house.
I explained to both that I was looking for a site that had instructors available and that I have a plane under construction with a modified wing(no dihedral and barn door ailerons instead of 1.75" dihedral and no ailerons).
The replies I got were the following:
Local Club-"You need to put the flat wing aside and build the wing correctly because you can't learn to fly using ailerons, but will learn with the three channel set up."
Monroe Club-"It would have been better with half the dihedral left in, but since you have ailerons, with one of our instructors it won't be a problem. The plane will just be more of a hands on type of plane."

Now my question to the instructors is who do you agree with? The local club instructor is a guy in his mid to late 60's who claims to have taught hundreds to fly since the mid 1960's, while the Monroe club instructors are in the mid 30's to 50's and seem to be more open minded. Considering how many 4 channel trainers are on the market, it seems odd that the local instructor would look at an aileron trainer as a second plane rather than a first.

Now that you all know as much as I do, I NEED OPINIONS