ORIGINAL: MinnFlyer
I totally agree with you AND your assessment.
Way too many fliers not only over-power their planes, but they also tend to fly with the engine ''ON' or ''OFF'' no in-between.
I have seen several 3D fliers who, when faced with a dead-stick, wind up crashing their plane due to the fact that they stall it all the way down to the ground - even when the dead-stick occurs at altitude - because they have no concept of basic aerodynamic principles. Without power, they simply do not know how to fly.
Now, it's easy to say, ''That's their problem'', but the problem really surfaces in a situation like yours, where some one who doesn't know how to do much more than point a guided missile tries to ''Teach'' a beginner.
hey!.....don't be soooo hard on those 3Der's......ha! ha! ha!, i'm just kidding minnflyer, i'm one of them(3Der)......you know back in the day, dead stick landing was encouraged as another form of practice......the instructor that taught me how to fly also taught me how to practice coming in under no power.....my club used to sponsor 2-3 fun-fly's a year and dead stick landing was one of the event's we particapated in.....it was a timed event, we had one minute to take off and climb our plane as high as we could, then cut the motor and then dead stick the plane back to the ground, the pilot that could stay in the air the longest with no power won the event......not something a "newbie" sure be encouraged to try unless they're with a qualified instructor......understandably, a new pilot will panick and land right away when the engine dies/quits.....on the other hand, a seasoned pilot like myself(25+ years) can keep a standard trainer floating and thermaling in the air for quite a long time......you got to love those flat wing trainers......it's so discouraging to see these new pilot's wanting to break into the hobby without any guidence from a seasoned pilot.....in my 25+ years of flying, i've seen too many newbies buy a plane and try to go it alone, only to put it in the air one time and subsequently smash it into the ground and get so distraught at the loss and the cost of their new plane and quit and never be seen at the flying field again.....if they would've just invited some input from a seasoned flyer, their first encounter with radio control would be much more enjoyable and that first plane would have survived to fly another day.....just think of the benefit once this newbie masters the basic's of flying, he can move on to his second plane and thus free up that first trainer plane for the next person that want's to learn how to fly......that's the way we used to do it, back in the day, after mastering our first trainer planes, if we didn't find a buyer, we donated them to the club so that there were "alway's" planes available for instruction.....i know everytime i saw a newbie flying my old trainer, it brought a smile to my face the moment i saw them acheive their first loop or roll.....KOOLKRABBER47......