ORIGINAL: carrellh
ORIGINAL: HampdenTech
I have flown for a little over a year now, but on a 3-channel Easy Star and recently on a 4-channel Electric Stick which I built from a kit (flies very nice by the way) so I guess some of you may suggest that I've yet to fly!
Do the planes you've been flying have landing gear, and if they do, can they take off from the ground? If you can already do takeoffs and landings with these planes you should solo with the Alpha very quickly.
Yes, the Electric Stick (attached) does have landing gear. I can do an ROG and on the last landing, I stuck it pretty good but it was on a Baseball infield. It tends to want to nose over on grass runways, but the landing gear is only 1-1/2". I have also been using RealFlight G3.5 for about a year and I constantly practice touch-and-go landings. I know it's not the same as flying for real, but I've been concentrating on using rudder to control yaw instead of ailerons. I judge my landings in RealFlight on whether or not I bounce the landing gear on the NextStar. If it touches down smooth with no bounce then I consider it a good landing.
By the way, where abouts are you in Texas (in relation to Dallas, FT. Worth area). My company has picked up a couple of new clients in that area (Ennis and Waxahachie) and we're making a large marketing effort in Texas. I may have to make a business trip out there next year (and of course I'll have to bring a plane
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