How do you land?
 

I have no previous rc plane experience. Im thinking of buying a nitro begginer kit. I have a question about landing the planes. Do I need an asphalt strip ,or could I just land in my back yard?

RE: How do you land?
 

How big is your back yard?
A nitro plane needs a very big area to fly in.
Nitro trainers can land on pavement or mowed grass. you will need about 100' wide by about 300' plus for a beginner to land in and no trees for another 200' in any direction. Our tightest field, and I hate flying there, is about 100' wide and about 400' long and surrounded by trees within 100' at each end of the runway and at the edge of the field on the side.

RE: How do you land?
 

Best thing to do is get your trainer, go to a local club, and learn from an instructor. Most kits do not need a concrete or asphalt runway. Yes, they are smoother, but not required. You could fly out of your back yard if you had 20 or so acers that was cleared and you had plenty of room.


Best of luck this is a great hobie

RE: How do you land?
 

I think you may need to look up the local RC club and make a visit this weekend. A nitro plane is different than an electric park flyer beginner RTF "kit". To learn RC airplanes you need an instructor whether Electric or Nitro, but especially with Nitro. Missleman's requirements are a minimum size area for a beginner with Nitro planes.

RE: How do you land?
 

Q. How do you land?
A. On the wheels hopefully and in such a manner as to be able to fly again:D

As was stated you can land on grass (cut to no taller than 2 inches but shorter is prefferable) or asphalt. Taller tires can handle taller grass as can larger airplanes. Also as stated here find a local flying club and walk right up to them and tell them what you want to do. If they do not enthusiasticly try to help you then you probably don't want to be a member of that club anyway. If you showwed up at my club in this manner I would break out my trainner and buddy box and ask you if you wanted to give it a try today.

RE: How do you land?
 

Here is a very basic procedure for taking off and landing.

[link=http://www.hooked-on-rc-airplanes.com/flying-model-airplanes.html]first flight[/link]


Since you are completely new you may benefit from reading this [link=http://www.hooked-on-rc-airplanes.com/learning-to-fly-rc-airplanes.html]beginners advice[/link] .


By reading it you will learn what types of airplanes are available and which is best to learn with.


The guys are right about joining a club, especially if you plan to fly a glow or large electric plane.


If you are planning to get a small electric park flyer you may get away with learning yourself if you have tons of patience and money, but more than likely you will get frustrated and give up on flying without getting help from an experienced flyer.

Flying is not hard at all. But here's the kicker, you only have one shot at it. In a split second you can destroy hundreds of $$ of equipment.

So it is critical that you are fully trained and confident before flying by yourself. At club you can use a buddy box. That allows you to hook your controller up to the an instructors radio. When you get in trouble he will take over and save your plane. It's really the only way to go, you can't beat it.


Good luck!

RE: How do you land?
 

Listen, even a trainer needs a lot of space to land. They land faster than you think -35-45 mph. Don't try to fly in your backyard. You need a lot fo space. Find a club. You will ruin your trainer if you don't.

RE: How do you land?
 

g-day
you will always land because you have no choice "what goes up must come down""take off is optional landing is manditory"just in what manner you land is the thing.
dont worry about landing until you have had a few flights with an instructor and you have had it eplained to you very well.
you will not be able to fly in your back yard unless you live on a farm with no trees also dont fly petrol aircraft in local parks or ovals as far as i know it is ilegal.
your best bet is to go down to a club and tell them what you want to do and ask thm what equptment you need to buy and have a good look around when you are there and make sure that you want to do it.
good luck..

simmo

RE: How do you land?
 

This is a Google Earth screen capture of our field. Although I admit that our main field is large (3000' x 500') and is a full scale runway, a typical field needs three things:

1. It needs to have a runway ([X(]). As already mentioned, that runway should be a minimum length to safely take off and land our RC aircraft, especially the Glow and Gas among us.

2. It needs a fly over area that is out and away from the pilot's stand and, in ideal conditions, away from the runway so that pilots can land and take off while others are flying.

3. It needs a pit area for assembly and run up of models.

A parking area would be nice too.. ;)

Now with that said, the typical back yard just isn't gonna cut it, unless you have a huge back yard, a farm, or live on an airport.. but even at that, there are restrictions established by both the FAA and the AMA about flying RC in the vicinity of an active full scale airport. In our case, the property is owned by the Forestry people and they use it, but not frequently, so they allow us to fly there provided we get out of the way when one (or more) of their full scale aircraft is operating in the area.

As to how to land an RC aircraft? That too has been covered so I won't go into that.

Obviously, the general consensus is that you find a club and get an instructor, who will teach you what you need to know to safely fly your model. Don't forget, these things are often referred to as 'toy airplanes'. But, they are not toys. They can be dangerous in the wrong hands and can do damage to persons and property, even kill people. So, do yourself a favor and find a club and do it that way.

CGr.

RE: How do you land?
 

Depends on the airplane's tires.

If they're large enough diameter they can land on anything. So basically you compare the airplane's size (which determines the tire size) to the roughness of the runway.

The nicest flying field in the area is grass. It has no pavement at all. It's cut once a week. We're presently working on a project to pave a small area at one end so the smaller electrics will have a place they can take off. Their tiny wheels won't roll even immediately after the grass is cut. And no way they'll land without flipping over.

There are 3 flying fields in the area. The other two have asphalt strips. Most of the flyers at those fields take off from the asphalt and land on the grass beside the pavement.

You pretty much need very good grass, cut very uniformly to operate any model under 40size comfortably.

RE: How do you land?
 

Thanks, I've been looking for this kind of documentation for some time :)

RE: How do you land?
 

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RE: How do you land?
 

flying is easy ...landing is hard.

You can put the Savage's wheels and tires on.lol

You might have a better chance at success if you join a club. They might have a designated trainer
to help newbies.

anyways, maybe there's no local club in your area. $4.00 per gallon and you need a decent sized
car or truck to haul all of that stuff...back and forth...back and forth just for 10 mins of stick time.

So if you livet in the country and bascailly have your own flying site.:D

get a sim and get a duraplane or spad type of model.
Don't worry the woods trainers looks like a T too 2-3 mistakes high.
A duraplane will look better after a crash landing...on grass or pavement.lol


if you live in town or there's hourse near you.
unless..of course, your nieghbor suck.:)

RE: How do you land?
 

No problem. I appreciate the positive feed back.