1st Flight was a success!

Got a couple of the guys to check the plane out.

Thunder tiger .36 started and ran perfect. balance looked good

One of the guys took the plane up for me and handed me the box.

I flew a bunch of left hand turns. Scared the guys when I held the aileron to long and rolled the plane over.
I got it back under control and they asked if I did that on purpose? Yeh Right.
I lost my orentation a couple of times but got it back.
After awhile the engine died, I had plenty of altitude so I handed the box back and he circled to lose some altitude and brought it in nice.
I would have tried to come right in...Good to see how he handled it.
They said it was built well and didnt need any adjustment.

One of the guys talked to me about exponential. We added 30% to the ailerons and elevator.

Soent most of the day watching.

On my 2nd flight I tried a take off. A little nerve wracking but no problems. Lots of trees at this site so you have to turn left right away.
Controls felt better now, ailerons were not quite so responsive. On my 1st flight it felt a little "twitchy"? or just me with no experience?
I practiced my left turns for awhile trying to line up for a landing. hit or miss for me to make the turn correctly to be lined up on the grass runway and because it was coming at me, the reversed controls were a little much for me. I had a couple of flybys at about 100 feet that looked good. A couple times coming back off line it went right over my head and I got disoriented a bit. this put me over the pits where I wasnt supposed to be but once I turned and was behind the plane again I pulled it left.
No rolls on this flight, I handed the TX back so he could land.

Opps, he handed me the TX and I shut it off. My plane started up and taxied down the runway into the tall grass.
No Damage but a dangerouse thing! Lesson learned!!

I though this wouldnt happen with the Spectrum DX6i ? I think I have to program my throttle to cut if it losses signal????

That was it,

Cleaned up and went home.

I'm going to try another field tommorrow where they have a more structured training program...

But A very good day!
The plane Flew well!
I did a take off and flew.
The plane came home in one piece.


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