This explination I give to students that have soloed and are now ready to learn to fly


landing is a product of power managment vs speed.

Speed is a product of power vs drag.

you have two forms of drag. aerodynamic drag, the shape and frontal area of the wing and fuse. this you have no control over other than which model ya buy

the other is induced drag. this is the drag in simplest terms produced by a high angle of attack buy the wing.


what this means to you is to control speed by increasing and decreasing the angle of attack of the wing.
you do that with the elevator.

Next time your at the feild get the model up 3-4 mistakes high and practice flying slow, really slow. once you do that fly even slower. you may even want to get back with your instructor on the cord to do it the first couple times

reduce the power to 1/3 and start to pull up slighly until you maintain level flight, you should be able to maintain level flight but now flying slower. the controls will be very mushy and slugish

to fly even slower reduce the throttle to idle. and pull up gentrly to maintain level flight just before it stalls add some power and maintain level flight, if done right you should be flying just under stall speed with 1/3 power. this is called being behind the power curve, it basic manuvers for 3-d flight but basic trainning in real planes

your learn two thing that are very useful here. one maintaining control in slow flight. two you will land better once you understand how to control decent with power and speed with your elevator.


a good landing start from downwind. reduce power and add some up elevator, even some up trim if ya just can't cowardinate it. reduce more power until it starts to decend holding some up elevator. turn base and final holding almost half up elevator and control the decent rate with power. by touchdown you should have full up elevator. by doing this you should be coming in allot slower. again you should concider doing this back on a buddy box if your not good at judging corrections.