aileron movement

looking from the front, yes..........but you better get some help or enjoy the crash

Brad

It's easier to say if you are viewing the plane from the tail looking forward because then there's no confusion when you say "left aileron". From the front looking towards the tail the aileron on your left hand is the right wing aileron and aileron on your right hand is the left wing aileron.

Viewed from the rear looking forward, moving the aileron stick to the right should cause the right-wing aileron to deflect up and the left-wing aileron to deflect down.

Just remember, take it easy on that first flight. Don't want all your hard work on that 2nd plane to turn into kindling on its maiden voyage.

Jim

Hi Jeff, Movement of all controls are viewed as if you were sitting in the airplane cockpit. Just as in a car. If you do this it will help you. If I understand you correctly, you have them backwards but I have trouble visualizing looking at the front of the aircraft. Right stick , right aileron up pushes the right wing down, plane rolls right. Have someone check it out for you before you try to fly and by the way, get help in learning to fly. Good luck Gene

Hello Jeff,

Follow the advice of these other guys and you will enjoy flying a lot more, and a lot longer, too.

BTW, remember that left/right switches depending on if the plane is moving away from you or coming toward you during flight.

opinions will vary, JK

How about this:

stand BEHIND your plane:

move rudder stick left -rudder moves left.

move elevator stick up, and elevator moves down.

move aileron stick to the right and the Right Aileron moves up, the left Aileron goes down.

then, get someone else to double-check before you attempt to fly.

You should do this as part of your pre-flight checks EVERY time you fly if you have more than 1 model programmed into your TX. A lot of nice models get broken by having the wrong memory selected!

Bob in Aus

Last thing I do before taxi out . . .

Roll right, raise right. Right turn, right side, Pull up, pop up, Push for noise.

Cheers, Fred McClellan The House Of Balsa Dust

Please do yourself a favaor and spare yourself the 30 second flight and find an instructor. You wouldn't climb into a full scale plane without one, why would you do any less with a model? As has been said earlier, it isn't as easy as it looks and I've seen many overconfident full scale pilots auger in after 30 seconds in the air.

Just my .02

Jeff, If you decide to go it alone without an instructor take one of those plastic trash bags with you to the field, I think you'll need it. Please get some help from a local club, or go to a local hobby shop and ask for some assistance there. Joe L.

let me concur, I have over 8000 hours single/multi typed in Lears and Dc3's Instrument rated commercial, and private pilot glider aerotow only.

Not one darn bit of it helped on the first few flights. You will do great on the climb out and first turn and then it all goes to hell!

Your used to setting in the aircraft where everything is relative to you, now you have to think relative to the flight path. a whole new experience. shooting an ILS at 200 feet and 1/2 mile never bothers me. I shook like a dog crapping peach seeds my first few solos, after a number of stints on a buddy box.

Thanks for all the advice. I took the plane up today and it flew absolutely perfect...Even took the hands off the controls and it flew 25' off the deck straight and true. This is the greatest hobby i have ever enbarked on....It is scary as hell the first time to take a plane up for the first time, but with risk comes rewards....I had a trainer which is now toothpics, took it up without an instructor and flew it over 40 hours, the only reason i lost it was it was in the sun and by the time i saw it again it was too late. I used realflight simulator to learn how to fly. Anyways, I appreciate all the good advice in this newsgroup and I hope after i gsin experience to share my experiences with new people here...

Jeff Aust>let me concur, I have over 8000 hours single/multi typed in Lears and Dc3's

experience.

I agree with what has been said, but I wonder if you meant by the above sentence to say, PULL elevator stick back, and the elevator moves up? Or did you mean PUSH the elevator stick forward, and the elevator moves down?

Meaning no disrespect and I think I know what you mean, but how does one move the elevator stick up?

Not trying to be a wise guy, Wan

I concur - having built myself a Sig Kadet, I duley took it to the local park. I got it running, got it rolling, got it offf the ground and flying first try! Turned it towards me and kept it up, looking good. Then oops, to the left, oops to the right, oops into the ground. Not too much damage. Fixed it up, took it to my local club and they corrected the reversed ailerons, elevator for me. They said I was lucky to have gotten it to fly at all. (I always was a little backward anyway!) Invaluable help there, engine tuning, set-ups friendly (mostly) people with the same interests.

FRedD