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Old 08-24-2008 | 03:34 AM
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Default New to RC Aircraft

Hello All new to RC Aircraft, My Goal is a Skymaster F-15 with a JetCat 160SX in Japanese Aggressor Markings

But I need to start at the bottom and at the moment applying my trainer wings.

I like some advice on the following path I have decided to go. Am I taking the right steps in the aircraft. I have been told I should get a Glider before a Jet as and I quote
If your goal is a jet, get into gliders first. Jets have no prop wash over the tail surfaces, so they don't handle the same way as a propped aircraft does. Lots of guys have stuffed jets on landing approach because they expect low-speed handling that just isn't there.



So it this a good stepping plan

Trainer .... E-Flite Apprentice 15e RTF w/Dx5e Radio

First Aircraft .... Scale-Masters Series 92" Mitsubishi A6M-5 Zero ARF

Second Aircraft .... Embraer EMB-312 Tucano, with Jetcat Turboprop

Third Aircraft .... Glider of some kind ????

Final Aircraft .... F-15, with JetCat 160SX




Any Advice be helpful, as I do not have any RC Clubs in my Prefecture of Chiba, Japan so I have to be self taught.