On that note, any suggestions to spend money on incidence meters or any other control measurement tools is frivolous for a beginner with a trainer. Sure if they want to spend money to spend it but these items are unnecessary IMO. All of the kits I've build describe how to trim your plane without them.

Also hear some bold statements at the field... I heard a person write off Futaba 3004s saying they were all junk for 40 size planes. Right.

Some people also seem to have a hard time simply saying, "I don't know" or just resisting the temptation to throw in some kinda comment to get their 2¢ in even if it's wrong.

This one was a good one... dude at my field said that he had good luck flying electric but not glow. Thought to myself... where is the major difference if they are both built and trimmed correctly? He fired up his glow plane and took off... from the point of take-off, the plane made a large loop and augured into our pit area at WOT. The guy simply said, "See? Glow planes are just junk." I was thinking of other words with expletives since I was about 10ft from the impact area. Don't think he remembered to do a pre-flight... ignorant. These kinds of folks should not talk to beginners and should seek to take the training class again. I was a beginner at the time but exercised enough common sense to write this guy off as an unreliable source.

Increasing to WOT will not unnecessarily save your plane.

somegeek