RE: Best 3 Tips for Beginners first flight?
 

Well if this pilot was ging to have any luck at all, then I would check and be certain that all of the control surfaces are moving in the right dirrections. This way the pilot will at least have some control.

I would also recommend using lots and lots of stick memory (remembering what way you just moved the stick) So that even if you don't know what the right way is, then at least you know what the wrong way is. I find that this helps me a lot when I get disoriented.

Last, I would make this flight as short as possible just so that it qualifys as a flight.[8D]

LT-40

RE: Best 3 Tips for Beginners first flight?
 

Buy what you want.....fly what you want......crash what you want!

It's going to happen sooner or later.

RE: Best 3 Tips for Beginners first flight?
 

1) take off into the wind @ 1/2 throttle with the wings level.
2)keep the plane well above the ground and close to the field.
3)fly it untill it runs out of gas and try to get it back to the field with the wings as level as possible.

RE: Best 3 Tips for Beginners first flight?
 

Your scenario is specifying "a kid" flying a plane with "a 2-stroke engine", so there really shouldn't be any question that any responsible adult should stop the event from taking place. Children, and even teenagers, don't fully appreciate the true nature of danger. They essentially believe that they are immortal. A glow powered airplane could easily kill you simply by carelessly contacting the spinning propeller blade to the wrong place on your body, like your neck. While death is probably unlikely, it would be very easy to lose a finger. You should stop a child or teen from even attempting to fly a glow powered plane alone if they have no experience.

If this were an adult, that would be very different. Most adults realize how easily and quickly serious, life-threatening injury can take place. And, of course, they are adults. If they want to risk life or limb that is up to them. But the question you are asking really is approaching "Is it OK to let a kid go into the field out back and teach himself how to shoot with my .38?"

RE: Best 3 Tips for Beginners first flight?
 

1) Simulator. 20 hours of flight time and 200-500 landings should do it.

2) Disciplined pre-flight checks.

3) A positive attitude and a willingness to learn ... when that plane crashes, and it will, learn to pick up the pieces and come back even stronger.

- K

RE: Best 3 Tips for Beginners first flight?
 

Gotta go with the safe advise to NOT DO IT. but if by accident your plane starts itself and leaps into the air...
don't turn until its at a safe altitude then throttle back to 1/2 or 1/3 throttle then turn with gentle small input movements on the sticks keep it close( but you won't be able to because no one showed you how to trim for stable flight.) if you get EXTREMELY lucky line up on the runway cut throttle to idle but you won't be able to because no one was there to help you adjust the motor for flight.....
well I think you get the picture.
A students needs to have a trimmed and adjusted plane first time out so he can feel what the plane is supposed to fly like.
first flights are usually harry at best on new plane and a first time flyer can't trim it out to fly hands off like an experienced flyer.