Hello everybody, I would greatly appreciate any help with my questions. Here is the deal, I am new to airplanes-yes ive tried to fly small electrics several times with no luck, just crash and smash. I went ahead and purchased a j-3 piper cub, (electric) it has rudder control, elevator, and trottle speed. my question is I would like to try hand launching first, but I've read several conflicting articles, some say to throw the plane into the wind hard like a dart, but then I read not to throw like a dart, but toward the ground with a little force. which is it? also if someone can please tell me, when hand launching,nobody ever explains where the controls are except for full throttle, being that this plane does not have ailerons, are the elevators in a neutral position when launching or should the elevators be slightly trimmed up?WHY DO WE PARK IN DRIVEWAYS/AND DRIVE ON PARKWAYS?

WHY DO WE PARK IN DRIVEWAYS/AND DRIVE ON PARKWAYS?

How to throw for a hand launch depends on your plane and how much wind. The hand launch needs to be hard enough to get the plane up to flying speed. Some extra speed is OK but too much can cause problems too. Normal cruise speed is the target to hit. That is the speed the plane is built and trimmed out to fly at. A slow flying plane should be thrown slowly. A heavy plane with a high stall speed must be thrown faster. Wind reduces the speed required from the trow by the amount of the wind speed. If the wind is blowing as fast as the cruise speed of the plane, no throw at all is needed, just let go. So you can see there is no one correct throw.

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