Takeoffs are optional....but landings aren't! Seems pretty obvious but apparently not to everyone. Last weekend I'm flying my plane when somebody yells, "we've got a problem and we need some help". Since I'm a club instructor I quickly landed my plane and asked what is the problem? "We don't know how to land". Well, why did you takeoff??? I went over and landed the plane and suggested that in the future the plane stay on the ground until the pilot got enough instruction to be able to safely land the plane. Amazing!

Artificial intelligence is no substitute for naturl stupidity.

Definately!

Hi:
happens that other´s experience is not a valid reference. It happens in R/c worlsd as in every aspect in life. ou have to crash your model once or twice before you learn the lesson
Also, we have to consider that when a good pilot does the landing procedure...it looks so eeeaassyyyy...!

I ´m instructor too. and from one weekend to another I always found the student airplane compeltely out of trim. When asking what happens they always said " Was my kid!!", "that little devil!" etc. , but later I knew the "kid" and was a baby of 9 to 12 months worried only about his milk bottle or was a tennager who does not care a s*** about R/C.

moe than once I have to land my model, run and take the radio of the shoked novice screaming to his model while rying to land. Never lost one, but almost... 3 feet half loop for recovering is more fun when is not your plane!!

Si verdad.

Good god......


I think landing is easier than takeoffs, and if you crash, atleast you arent going as fast

I was once told:

If the number of take-offs you make less the number of Landings you make = more than 0, then at some time something went wrong.

Stupidity is just God's way of thinning the herd........

I agree whole heartedly, takeoffs take concentration, but I can land with my eyes closed, and both hands behind my back. Sometimes I land without even thinking about it

???????? I have to have both eyes open landing and on takeoff either ease on power and make it a graceful IMAC style takeoff or give full throttle and pull full up...

I was refering to a trainer (which I pray he was flying seeing as how he cant land) which you can can get nice and slow and have it float in

Take offs are optional, but so are landings if your a glider pilot

and thats why ive got a glider. urm, how big are those cells again? ive never flown my glider/plane, but a glider will lose all control wneh its out of power.