Need peoples opinions.

[legoman]

First i have logged 2.5 hours in 3 days i would keep on flying had it not been for school and battery life getting in the way. second this plane is hard to land since it only has rudder and throttle build in, and third i crashed after a 15 min flight pulled to many G's with the A.C.T. off and the wing bent up 90 degree's and i lost control all together, came up with the solution of installing a carbon fiber rod in the wing to help with the turns. And the advice on how to practice landing was prefect thanks for the advice.

[Grayeagle]

well .. next up is adding more to the mix .. full flight controls and perhaps flaps .. several great planes to choose from
that work in this category as excellent advanced trainer types ..I useda thrash on a foam Cessna Cardinal at this stage ..slightly overpowered so takeoffs were short and could get to alt fairly quickly.

I fly 'em till I am completely bored to tears with 'em before movin up .. the one I built after the Cessna was a 60 powered Sureflite Foam Spitfire,
..flew that one for over 2 years  ..it was massively overpowered and I basically just wore it out
Got to the point where it was more 'glas and epoxy than foam, weight almost doubled from initial flight from all the repairs .. LOL.

Little things like elevator seperating on high speed dive, flaps out of sync, engine quit on takeoff, ..and just plain screwing up at low alt a few times Fun plane to fly tho .. I never got tired of it .. got offered more than I thought it was worth after thrashing it

-GE aka Frank

[legoman]

Well i want something with a v tail it seems to make it more stable in my mind. All the Firebird series planes have a v-tail, however mine is the only one not included with the elevator in the mix of rudder.

[shppr01]

You want to test your landing ?
Try to set up an aircraft carrier mock up to the same scale as the plane.
Try to land on that a couple times !! Send video of it I would love to see it
 

[legoman]

its not mine buts its cool   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99PGmXbtpO0
 

[Bosco123]

i kept it in the air for 35 mins yesterday only had to land to switch batteries i logged over 2 1/2 hours in this bird

Quit thinking your all great becasue your not. I had one plane and it took me three months and over 3 hours a day to get "good" with it, and that is just in flight. Took me another three months and 3 hours a day before I good with take off and landing, and 8 years on top of that to master landing. You need to get a trainer, a TRAINER. So far what you have picked out is honestly garbage for you right now. I would even have a hard time flying all of the airplanes that you have, and you think you can do it better?

[legoman]

hey its not my fault i got the fire bird, i don't want it. My grandfather got the plane for me i had no other choice. I don't think i'm the best i'm just showing what i can accomplish, the plane is to easy to fly thus making it useless to me in the real world cause i don't have any other planes with this construction.

[Ack-Ack]

I would seriously take Bosco's advice and find a local flying club near you and seek the assistance of a trainre.  While I don't fly motorized RC planes, it took me quite a few months and broken/lost gliders before I even considered myself competent in flying sail/slope gliders and in no way considered that I've "mastered' flying them after doing it 12 years.  Though, I will say that I am far better at building them than flying them.

I made the mistake once that after about 5 months of flying slope gliders and thought I was 'great' until I flew a Ki-61 Tony slope glider I built and flew it off Torrey Pines.  It wasn't until about 10 minutes after launching it that I realized that I still sucked and ended up losing my plane in the ocean because I didn't read the wind well enough.  The cliff face and beaches of Torrey Pines is filled with slope gliders of those that thought they 'mastered' flying them.


ack-ack

[legoman]

i hate gliders, but the fields closest to me require a AMA membership i can't afford

[cattb]

I think any field will require the membership (AMA) and maybe more for a club. If your going to go gas(nitro) get a trainer. You can also get a pc trainer that will help.

[bagrat]

Quit thinking your all great becasue your not. I had one plane and it took me three months and over 3 hours a day to get "good" with it, and that is just in flight. Took me another three months and 3 hours a day before I good with take off and landing, and 8 years on top of that to master landing. You need to get a trainer, a TRAINER. So far what you have picked out is honestly garbage for you right now. I would even have a hard time flying all of the airplanes that you have, and you think you can do it better?

cheeze an crackers if ur gonna dedicate this much time, might as well learn to land a real airplane. i bet youll be pretty descent at landing afterr bout 10 hours.....maybe

otherwise one of these looks pretty cool

[legoman]

I have landed a real plane before and flown one. My Great grandfather owns an airstrip in Ohio. He took me up in one of his planes when i was 12 and let me fly it at 9,000 feet. We came in for a landing and he let land the plane.

[weazely]

Where at in Ohio?

[legoman]

Can't remember the town, but i swear it happened.

[2ADoc]

I fly R/C helis, Keep flying the one that you have and work on your landings.  As I have sugguested to you before save the money that you will spend on a new bird and get a good simulator.  I have Real Flight 4.5, it comes with a controller and you can use your real controller with it.  Plus you can load all the planes and Helis you want for free.  You can also put wind and sun in the sim so that you learn to compensate for them.  Again save the money that you would spend on a new plane and get the sim, it will save you money in the long run.  If you had gotten the sim and flown it you would still have your F6F, most likely.