RC Airplanes - Best Remote Control Airplanes
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This is a actually a piece of exercise equipment. When you're learning, every landing is a crash landing. Do your best to crash it near you or you'll be walking all over the place. But you won't mind the walking much because learning to fly this thing is so fun.
-Only fly over grass if able - pavement impacts break propellers.
-Make sure propeller is well seated before flying - press it onto the shaft firmly
-Don't rev up the motor with the propeller spinning in the same plane as your face in case it flies off.
-Don't attempt to takeoff from the ground, instead gently toss into the air and throttle up as this taildragger model is so front heavy, and without a nosewheel, any chip in pavement causes it to faceplant and shatter propeller tips. You can trim down and use slightly damaged props - make sure it's still balanced! If the surface is perfectly smooth takeoff is sometimes possible. If you use 1mm music wire to make new, longer, stronger main landing gear, you can takeoff and land more reliably - but if you want to learn to fly a plane that will do this reliably -DON'T BUY THIS PLANE.
-The spring steel main landing gear get bent back after crash landings, and if you try to bend them back into shape too many times you'll break the wires. They'll break anyways after enough crashes.
-Keep controller in "beginner mode"
-Don't fly near trees. I lost mine 25 feet up a pine tree just as I was finally getting good. Luckily I borrowed a tall ladder and the plane only spent one night in the tree.
-Lightly sand your propellers with 150 grit paper and spray paint white to help find the propellers after crashing if you're near bushes. Can’t stress this enough.
-Since there is a deadzone in throttle stick between 0 throttle and some (but not enough to stay airborne) throttle, you'll have to learn where that lowest throttle position is to help you descend/ land in a controlled way. Being able to hear the plane's motor helps, and this is possible from >50ft away unless it's really noisy out.
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Learning basic control must be accomplished in steps:
1 fly straight/ low level with constant throttle
1.5 play with throttle settings - cutting power completely in flight is risky! Learn to adjust trim in flight.
2 controlled crash landings
3 turn big circles/ ovals - no rudder
4 add rudder to turns (learn about how too much rudder will cause a stall and spin/ crash if you're flying too low to recover)
5 turn tight circles/ ovals
6 reverse turns/ figure eights
7 learn to use elevators at full deflection up/down
8 fly higher
9 glide
-Start by flying in a straight line, cut the motor, let the plane sink, even nose down to a degree, then pull back on the stick at the last second to cushion the crash landing. This can be a frustrating process.
-Try flying in big circles next just be leaving the throttle at medium power and banking in one direction
-Tighten down the circles by pulling back on the stick as you're banking, adjust throttle to keep from changing altitude too much
-As soon as you can start learning how to move the rudder in the same direction that you're banking to make even tighter and more coordinated turns. Soon, you'll be always moving your left and right thumbs in the same direction in similar amounts and making nicer, predictable turns. Since the rudder stick works the throttle, you'll have to practice not changing throttle with your left thumb unless you mean to.
-Learn to spot the yellow nose of the plane/ white propeller from far away to know when it's facing you - this will help you know when to stop turning and level out in a new direction
-Fly really high and cut the throttle, play with the controls as you coast all the way down - this is really helpful in learning flying without worrying about the throttle.
You can even dangle a string from the ceiling in your house and tie another string around the plane forward of the wings, the other end around the plane forward of the tail, and suspend the plane in front of a big box fan. You can play with the controls without running the motor at all, and go between expert and beginner modes, learn how to bring the plane back to stable as you fight the side to side oscillations that develop. dynam c-310 grand cruiser
Propellers from the Mustang fit my RC Corsair (Corsair props unavailable at this time) - order extras and also from the get go - so you can fly when you're free to without having to wait for parts that commonly break/ get lost. The landing gear seems so useless that when they snap you might just fly without them rather than waste money.