ORIGINAL: eccvets
That's some what unfair and I think this topic is legitimate as a plane should not go nuts when you plug in the battery and have the transmitter on. Not everyone needs #1, put that plane back in the box, #2, get in touch with a local club for instruction on what kind of plane to get & LEARN HOW TO FLY. Many people learn on their own and many people have different ways of learning. If they crash their planes due to pilot error and blame the plane then that is bad but having a defective plane is another thing all together. Everybody has gotta start some place and don't tell me you have never crashed.
No sorry it is VERY fair.
A plane needs a complete going over. Even an RTF one, by an experienced flyer!
All too often people treat RC stuff like they were toasters. This are relatively complex devices that need adjustment and TLC before flying.
The proper proceedure is to SEEK HELP FIRST, which is the correct advice.
Newbies don't do this and end up purchasing planes that are very ILL suited to the novice.... then they blame the vendors or sour on the whole RC experience.
You may not agree with this, but you too are a newbie with little experience dealing with novices.
The people with quite a bit of experience TEACHING newbies ( and I include myself ) have seen this melodrama played out time and time again.
Heck I saw it occur yesterday... a person with ONLY 3 Channel experience arrived to the airfield with an Art-Tech Yak 54 foamie...
The plane lasted all of 18 seconds before becoming a debris field.
That the plane started up when a newbie first turned it on resulting in damage, is if anything a prime example that they did not know what they were doing and needed help.
With electrics YOU MUST ALWAYS allow for this, because if you don't the results can be BLOODY.
This I know from first hand experience on a perfectly functional, tested and flown electric plane.
So as a novice please don't try to subsume the advice given by the more wizened gray hair set.