Which of the following states best fits the description of the flight characterists of all trainers in your opinion.


If you care to expand on why you chose the one you chose, can you add if you think whether or not a beginner would be able to tell the difference if he/she were put on a buddy cord with an instructor to fly each one the same day.

While I'm sure there are a couple that fly differently, in my experience (with 4 or 5), they have been similar.
Dennis-

In the town of perfect all trainers SHOULD fly similar. That's why I voted as I did.
BUT....
All the GOOD trainers that I've flown have flown close to the same.
A couple just plain sucked!

I agree there are some that are marketed as good trainers but fly like a rock. I think the aerodynamic platform for any trainer is pretty much the same. But I taught a person to fly with a G.P. slow poke .40. while this plane is considered a sport model it served its purpose as a trainer. Of course there is a catch. This guy picked it up fast, and in my opinion will probably excel to be a better pilot then me. he hasn't crashed it yet and was doing loops and rolls and flying inverted close to the deck by the end of this season. he soloed in march and flew about 3 times a month. Take the balsa USA stick .40 now there is one ugly plane. I mean ugly. But it is a trainer and falls into the category as being stable, slow, easy to see, light wing loading, and tough.Then there once was the flightcraft ARF trainers nice looking, a little less stable, heavy,came in fast, not durable. In my opinion it did not make a good trainer. didn't have the quality's. So to say all trainers are the same is to discuss what a manufacture markets as a trainer. But if you put numbers on the aerodynamic platform of a Good trainer then yes any manufactured plane that fell within a given perimeter would be the same. who would have these numbers. well if you did a poll on what is the best trainer and averaged the weight, wingspan length, wing loading, dihedral etc you would probably find the magic numbers that you could compare every other trainer with. so given this, to an experienced pilot one would not suggest a trainer to a newbie that falls short of the proper characteristics of a trainer.

Most trainers fly very well. Some do fly better than others with the larger planes being better to learn on. A Thunder Tigre 25 size can be a hand full and pocket rocket with a good engine (fun to fly but not the best to learn on). I have seen a few trainers come to the market place that were poor. Most had problems with being too heavy. Fortunately they don't stay on the market for long.

EXCAP232

Thanks for the feedback guys!

I appreciate it.



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