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Old 05-15-2008 | 05:13 PM
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Santi Botero
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Default RE: Simulation instread of trainer?

Hi there Osirisf16, I can respond you the question because I was just in your case. I started buying the Real Flight G4. I flew for 2 months, doing landings, takeoffs, stalls, etc. After 2 months I thought I was ready because I could dominate every plane in the simulator (even the F39). I brought a trainer from Miami. It was the Hangar 9 Alpha 40 RTF. It is a great trainer for begginers like you and me. I started flying for the first time with an instructor and I did pretty good; no errors. He landed the plane. The following weekend we met again and started flying. He was astonished because of the way I was flying. He showed me some exercises in the air which I did without a problem and he finally told me "Land the plane". I was pretty nervous but I did it. That same day I landed the plane for about 4 times without a problem. Everyone gave me a beer shower. I took 2 weekends to land the plane. From that moment on I started flying all by myself. No problems with my Alpha 40 yet. My first landing was about 1 month ago. This is all thanks to the practice and the experience I gained in my Rela Flight G4. It is a pedagogical instrument for begginers. It is the right way to start without spending hundreds of dollars in crashed planes. I recomend it to everyone that´s going to get started.
I suggest you start with a good trainer, not a low-mid wing plane because they are much more unstable and faster. Trainers, as the name says, are to train. It is a neccessay step that you should go through. Don´t subestimate how easy a plane can crash and it costs you a lot of money. In the simulator you don´t get scared but in the first real flying it is pretty scary, even if you have a great dominium with the simulator. Believe me, ist´s not a joke. I´ve experienced all that I just wrote here. I hope this could help. Bye Osirisf16.