Wphew.. I knew I would get a handful if I asked, and you truly proved that right. Hey, that's not a complaint, it's a compliment.

One thing. As we gain experience, me included, I've noticed that I tend to fly the plane more now than I did before. Take this past Wednesday. The wind was a constant 13 - 15 mph (my wind guage was set for mph) right down the center line. The gusts were gentle but were getting up to about 18 - 19 mph.. not more than that in the three or so minutes I watched the wind guage.

Anyway, upon coming in for a landing, I kept throttle on and allowed the plane to do what it was going to do on the approach. At the point where I was comfortable with the approach, I cut the throttle. But, this happened much further into the approach than It would have during a no-wind day. Then I watched the plane coming in, and controlled the approach with the elevator with minor, and I do mean minor inputs, until it just touched down. The plane slowed down, yet maintained the altitude until I made the very slight changes in the elevator until it softly touched down. At one point, I was satisfied with the approach, but decided not to land, so I kept the elevator alone and slowly added throttle. The plane evened out, then started a gentle climb without elevator input and that was that.

Good stuff, and I thank you for taking the time. I google'd the book and am going to order it from Amazon. We take an awful lot for granted when we fly these RC aircraft and I can see that based on what you said and my observations when flying. I will take more notice of things on my next flying day.

I'll tell ya, after my trainer days, I bought a Tiger 60 ARF. What was nice about that was it was large enough to see things happen. And that taught me an awful lot once I was able to actually see it doing things and react to my inputs. Good stuff indeed. This is why I preach that people should get larger trainers or larger second planes.. to an extent.. not to the extreme.. to 35% or something, but you get my meaning, I'm sure.

CGr.