ORIGINAL: jaka

Hi!
As you live near by me (I live in Upplands Väsby ) you are welcomme to us at our club in Upplands Väsby (Väsby Modellflygare) which is one of stockholm´s best flying sites (perhaps the best).

I have been flying for 32 years and if you really want to fly outdoors, taking of from a grassfield (Or tarmac) nothing beats a good high winged trainer airplane powered by 6,5cc glow engine. Of course there are electric powered planes these days too, but the versatility in using a glow engine is hard to beat.
No expensive Lipo cells to charge and no expensie charger...and no waiting for the Lipo cells to get charged.

I myself fly JR (35MHz) since 1980 (JR X388) and latey Spectrum DX-7 (2,4GHz), but Futaba or Hitech radios are OK too. Sanwa (Airtronics in the US ) is also a good radio but Sanwa isn't that big in Sweden (Distributed by Carrocar in Linköping). A computor radio is what I would recommend. JR and Futaba have these at prices around 2000 kronor.

There are many good high winged trainers, the Kyosho "Calmato" is one of them but there are many others so you can't really go wrong here. All high winged planes this size are good.

When it comes to engines I would say a .46 (7,5cc ) two stroke is too big engine for these planes, a 6,5cc engine is what I recommend to those people wanting to get started. The reason for this is the smaller engines more plesant behavior. Proped right with a 11x6 or 12x4 APC prop it flies a .40 high winged trainer much more gentle than a bigger, more powerful engine. Some people then say: -You can always throttle down!
Of course you can ...but the behavoir of the model will not be the same.

If you want to join our club you are wellcome. Just call me.