With a great simmulator comes great responsibility? lol.



MY first flight experience with a simm was different. i spent a few hours at it and picked it up quite easily. Ive been into gaming hardcore for years up to the competion level even, and ive been a heavy equipment operator for those same amount of years, working with almost any piece of equipment you can think of. I've got hand eye cordination up the wazzu. So.. What the simm taught me was ignorance and emphasized arogance in my belief that rc flight would be a breeze dispite never actually doing it...

After some hours on the simm, doing controlled flight, touch and goes with all sorts of aircraft on there, even some manuevers after going thru with the virtual instructor and watching with own radio controls while doing them, i started to become impatient. And even though i knew i had not completely mastered the flightsimm, I felt i could take on real flight, dispite the fact i havnt gotten myself a instructor of any kind yet.

So it wasnt too long that i figured i actually learned something. What i didnt learn as alot of these guys here have said befor, is a proper pre-flight. I set up the plane, fired it up and took off. I guess i was lucky because the plane actually flew well. No problems with the plane itself. The problem was ME. I actually made another post on these forums called "self discovery" which outlined my bad flight aswell.. So.. What i learned on my first actual flight:

1) I should have probably listened to the advice from the peeps at RCU and got myself an instructor first.
2) I need an instructor to help me through the details.
3) the flight simm is a flight simm... its way diferent then actual flight.
4) I learned that the plane looks like its a good size while on the ground, but for me, it got small fast. Im sure with more flights with an instructor i will overcome this problem easily though..

Bottom line is i got lucky. My take off was decent, my flight sucked.. i damn near lost sight of my plane completely due to my arogance and newbiness and when i did finally get it back to where i was standing my landing was nasty and hard. Ill definatly be gettin and instructor to help me soon hopefully. So, all i can say is, no matter how slow your instructor wants to take things with you, it will always be better then tryin to do it yourself without him. Take yer time i guess, I know im goijng to start doing that myself.