ORIGINAL: gsoav8r
ORIGINAL: luker737
Yes I'm useing an instrutor and yes all the brokenprops. are on landing.one question I have some friends that tell to just fly the slow stick and leave to trainer at home but i can't see that the slow stick real is the best to learn on maybe i'm wrong.
I cant understand why the push toward the Slow Stick when the trainer hasnt been mastered. Granted Sticks are fun and can be docile if set up right but its still not a trainer. IMO. Maybe your friends are tired of the trainer but are forgetting that your the one that has to learn to fly the plane. Not them.
When the trainer was totalled, how did that go down?
How many instructors do you have?
And three Sticks crashed? Do you have an instructor thats become tired of his student and isnt instructing anymore or paying attention?
What do you have a good grasp on? Takes offs ok? Left and right patterns ok? Right and left figure eights? Loops?
Years ago when I was new to RC I thought that if I could do it anyone could. A few years later I became an instructor and have been privileged to help many people. I had a student in his 60's about 7 years ago that just wasnt getting it after about a year. The student also trained with two other instructors. The situation was similar to what you described. One weekend the gentleman would do great and we (instructors) would start thinking that he had turned the corner. Then the next weekend or maybe a couple weekends later it would be like he had forgot everything. It was very discouraging at times for him and us. The good part was we rarely had equipment issues. He knew how to build and tune engines, etc. It was just the flying part that he didnt have the capacity for anymore. I say anymore because I really think that had he been younger he would have soloed and got his wings. Sadly, I got voted to politely suggested that he stick to just building models or whatever because we ran out of ideas, tools, knowledge (we tried everything) to be able to help him.
Im not suggesting you give up, but it would be easier for us to discern what some other issues might be if you gave us a more detailed history.
This is a Slow Stick.... It is an Excellent beginner plane. But it will Not teach you to land a "normal plane". mine normally lands in 6 ft It will teach you orientation. It is like a sim, it can be used as a tool to progress. but unlike a sim you put a brushless motor in it -take it outside and have a blast without costing much. Simulator time and buddy box is your key.
There's a guy that flies where I do, that has been flying for a couple of years and has never landed ANY plane. His son gets him in the air, lets him take over and when he's done takes over and lands. He still has a good time and NOBODY care's if he can land. One of these days he'll get it, but if not he's having fun anyway.-BW