I am going to be building an LT-40 soon and was wondering about the wing dihedral. It will be my first build and my first plane. I am yet to grab a hold of the controls. However - I have been playing about on the Real Flight sim for about a week now and when flying with the PT-40 I am finding it quite hard to stop the damn thing from climbing all the time. Even when I back the throttle off to about 60%, it still climbs. Anyway, what I was wondering is the PT-40 similar to the LT-40 and is it worth adjusting the dihedral when I build it to stop the plane from climbing so dramatically? Or is the sim not as realistic as it's talked up to be? Or is it pretty normal for a trainer to have those characteristics and I should be learning to control the plane accordingly?

I can take off and land pretty good now and can fly about without crashing. So the other thing Iwas wondering is, how accurate are the sims compared to the real thing? Obviously there is no substitute for the real deal but would Ihave a pretty good chance of replicating what I can do on the sim in real life? In other words - Get a plane off the ground, fly in a basic pattern and then land her?

By the way, I don't plan on doing it on my own. I will be getting down to a club to get some training before Iattempt to fly but I was just curious. I was also wondering how beneficial a park flyer would be for practicing? I live over the road from some school grounds so there is plenty of room???

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