help with plane
 

Hello I am a rapidly progessing pilot who is currently flying a Sig four star 120 wit a webra 1.20. My goal is to move into the 3D world with larger aircraft. I am looking for recomendations from some one other than A salesman. I am not saying that I am ready for the 40% ships but I feel that I am ready for the next step from where I am at. I am a big fan of the larger planes. I feel that they fly much better than a 60 size or smaller ship. any advice would be great. I will be looking for an ARF due to I have a 12 week old baby and a 4 year old. so any one with kids knows where my time is spent.:D I am an experienced builder I just will not have the time. I would like this next plane to be a gasser(just thought that I would add that in) any help would be very greatful.

thank you very much.
Jason

RE: help with plane
 

Please tell us the type of experience you have, things like maneuvers you can do at anytime without being nervous, how much wind do you typically fly in, basically what we need to help you is a bit more detail.

Jumping up to gasser is a big step and in most cases plan on roughly $1000 to $1500 on your first one and learning certain things all over again. Like how to tune the engine (not even close to tuning a glow engine), proper geometry of the linkages, PCM versus FM, orientation (big planes look slower than they really are and look closer than they really are), proper exhaust systems (mainly to cut down on noise), things like that.

I'm not saying you cannot do it, but a good bit of research needs to go into your first gasser. The plane is the easy part, all the stuff for it is the hard part.

You actually asked this exact same question over in the Sport Flying forum just under a little bit different subject line.

RE: help with plane
 

Yes, I did post this in many different forums. I did this to get a broad range of oppinions. To give you back ground on my flying. (deep breath!!!) I started flying with my lt-40 on good Friday of this year. I started with my instructor on the buddy box. This lasted for about 3 sessions of flying. by the end of the three sessions I was taking off and landing. I then progressed to my solo. After my solo and I was released to fly on my own I flew my Lt-40 2-3 times per week for 4-5 hours per day. I would fly this plane in wind from 0-15 mph winds. head on landings, crosswind, and down wind landings. I then started areo bats. I started on the simple manuvers and perfected those. by the time I moved out of the trainer I was performing outside rolling circles, snaps, ect... I have then moved on two my 4* 120 where I was flying and landing in higher winds and performing 4point rolls outside circles, flatspins, lumshavack(spelling????), ect.

I realize that there is a lot of research that goes into getting into a large gasser. That is why I am posting this thread.