rc newbie

Dang Don... I was going to tell you about this wonderful newsgroup. But you had found it anyway. Good job!

Bill

then its time you joined teh meerry bunch of prankstere on teh E-zone

and spent at least a couple of months reading up on the topic.

Costs nothing and will save you from expensive mistakes.

You need to get Real Flight G2 simulator then, and learn to fly the planes from OUTSIDE (remarkably difficult for most FS pilots it seems)

Good morning to you Bill, Tx for the reply over at the FS group. Looks like Xmas may come early this year!! (:->))

Just what I need - another $$ hobby.... Probably need to investigate the local hobby shop (small town) and see if any club exists before getting too wrapped up. In the mean time I'll induldge in a little more self education as TNP suggested, and check out Real Flight as it seems to be the sim of choice in these parts.

WORLD MODELS J3 Piper Cub thread

The Natural Philosopher wrote in news:cigudg$oji$5$ snipped-for-privacy@news.demon.co.uk:

I've trained several FS pilots to fly RC, and they seem to fall into two categories: those that think they already know pretty much everything they need because they fly FS, and those who consider RC to be a new skill for which FS may have some relevance. The first group have most of the trouble, of course, and the perspective issue is a good part of it.

Now that I think of it, the second group tend to be very pleasant students to work with.