ORIGINAL: brett65
ORIGINAL: gaRCfield
ORIGINAL: beachbrada
ORIGINAL: gaRCfield
It sounds to me like you should get a Katana.
Well who makes a good Katana? Im a little bit away from making a final decision so any suggestions will be heard. Ive only been flying since November of last year. Started off with a electric Sky Fly, moved onto a Superstar with a .46 Evolution, then moved to a Sig Four Star .40 which I learned the hard way about over-stressing a plane when the right wing panel snapped off after I tried pulling out of a full throttle dive, then heard about the Pacific Knockabout which is about the same as a Four Star but bigger and tougher but not so good outside loops, so then decided to get another four star since I really liked the first one. I had the second four star for a little while and miss judged a landing and hit a pole at destroyed the left wing panel, so now I have a good left and good right panel but never got around to making one good wing, so then I put the Pacific Knockabout back together and just recently crashed that when the elevator linkage came loose on the elevator itself. So really I haven't lost any planes due too tricks but just poor judgment and faulty parts.
After reading all this I guess I'm withdrawing my recommendation for a Katana. From similar personal experience I'd wait until you have a plane flying that you're not making repairs on at the end of the day.
Sounds like you might actually need a trainer
, sorry. If you can't keep from misjudging those then you don't need a fast agile "third" plane. Thats my opinion. Full throttle dive wing failure is more a pilot error than a part failure. You're not really supposed to do that.
I didn't say it was part failure, I know it was a misjudgment on my part. I learned from that mistake fairly quickly. As far as the Four Star hitting a pole, I was in a school parking lot and probably should not have been flying there in the first place. I was doing just about every trick you can do with the Four Star but when I decided to try a landing I took her out further to give me more room and upon approach clipped a light pole that I wasnt aware of because I hadnt been flying the plane in that section of the parking lot. In a nut shell I should have been flying in a big open field. Lesson learned again. So now that Im not doing full throttle dives and flying only in open fields I should have no problems.