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Old 02-08-2010 | 03:31 PM
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Default RE: Crashed my first flight

Whatever you do, don't hand launch the plane! I have been flying for 30+ years and that is about the worst advice I've heard. Everyone knows that unless you're flying a sailplane or glider that you cannot hand launch a plane above stall characteristics of the wing. This usually ends up with disasterus results. The only way you're gonna learn to fly RC is to get help from an experienced flier or go buy yourself a 3 channel electric glider like the Parkzone Radian. My son successfully flew and landed this plane WITH ME ADVISING HIM, the first time. There are to many issues with control reversals when the plane is coming toward you for the brain to comprehend without help from an experienced pilot. Trust me, I have seen many a full scale pilot try to fly RC after landing their Delta passenger planes thinking they are too good to get help from someone and they end up pile driving their planes nose first right into the ground! There has got to be someone locally that can help you, just do a little research. Don't feel like an idiot because you cannot fly by yourself, RC is VERY challenging until your brain can deal with the motor skills necessary to handle right is left and left is right when the plane is coming right at you. There are a FEW self taught RC pilots out there but with the available flight sims these days this is a LITTLE more attainable than it used to be. RC can be a very rewarding hobby with a little patience. Please GET HELP and you will enjoy the hobby for many years to come, if not it WILL end in frustration and you will miss a lot of good times. Heck RC is as much about building relationships as it is about flying anyway, so go find someone to help you! The thing that helped me the most when I was learning to fly was to think, LOWWING, if the plane was coming back at me, which means move the aileron stick to the LOWWING side of the plane to level the wings especially upon landing. Flying the plane is not really that hard, the challenge is getting it back on the ground safely and where you want it to be.If you really want to be frustrated ,go buy yourself a helicopter! OH, just now noticed where you were from, INDIA,! may be a little hard to find an instructor over there. Good luck anyway!