HobbyGuy, been thinking about your statement concerning soaring. In my experience soaring has seemed to be the safest way to get the feel of R/C flying in my earliest training sessions. Now, of course, I simply enjoy searching for evidence of thermals that I can throttle back to fly circles and lazy eights around in. If I get too high I will sometimes practice some maneuvers on the way down to a "safer" altitude. I do sometimes find it confusing when I try to maneuver much if the plane is too far away.

I am working on lighter, more streamlined modified versions of the EXCEED-RC AB to get the precise performance I need for my particular purposes. I want to be able to fly maneuvers closer to the ground than I feel comfortable doing with my current equipment.

Anyway, maybe such flying would be useful in your particular approach to sharing modeling pleasures. Just a thought since there are so many effective and fun ways to learn how to fly PFs.

madwebtvscientist [sm=lol.gif][sm=cry_smile.gif]

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