<span style="font-size: medium"><span style="font-family: Arial">Flew my first trainer today, a 40 sized ARF that took me a month to build. Took it to the club field and asked one of the pilots there to maiden it for me. He was happy to do it. We spent about a half hour checking it over, making sure eveerything worked right. I had to fix the nose gear, as it turned opposite the rudder. Don't know how I missed that. After that was fixed, we did a range check on the radio. Fired it up and he taxied it out and took off. I was expecting big gyrations but it flew smoothly, with no trim adjustments needed. I was amazed. He flew it for about 10 minutes then landed it, a very nice landing. </span></span></p>

<span style="font-size: medium"><span style="font-family: Arial">I really feel I have accomplished something worthwhile. I never built models as a kid and never used an Exacto knife until about a month ago. I'm really surprised I didn't cut myself in the process. LOL. Now I just have to learn to fly it.</span></span></p>