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Kin Lee - 27 Jun 2004 18:12 GMT
Bought aerobird challenger, seems too hard to control. May be it's too windy
that day. I'm Los Angeles area, can somebody help me? Should I join AMA?
Dr1Driver - 27 Jun 2004 20:04 GMT
>Bought aerobird challenger, seems too hard to control. May be it's too windy
>that day.
Any wind is too much.  Buy a REAL plane.

I'm Los Angeles area, can somebody help me?
Probably.

Should I join AMA?
Yes.  And a local club, too.  Look at www.modelaircraft.org for an AMA listing
of clubs in your area.

IMO, most small "park flyer" types are harder to control than larger glow fuel
or even larger electric planes.

Good luck with it.
Dr.1 Driver
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Doug McLaren - 27 Jun 2004 20:44 GMT
| >Bought aerobird challenger, seems too hard to control. May be it's too windy
| >that day.
|
| Any wind is too much.  Buy a REAL plane.

The Aerobird is a real plane.  It's even got three channels.

  http://www.modelflight.com.au/rc_model_electric_planes/hobbyzone_aerobird_challe
nger.htm


Some of the best times I've had flying have been with planes with two
(slopers, mostly) and three channels.

| I'm Los Angeles area, can somebody help me?
| Probably.
|
|  Should I join AMA?
| Yes.  And a local club, too.  Look at www.modelaircraft.org for an AMA listing
| of clubs in your area.

Allow me to play the devil's advocate ...

The AMA will offer insurance, but a homeowners or renters insurance
policy probably will too.  A local club will probably provide a place
to fly, but they very well may make fun of your choice of plane, and
they may also work on drawing you all the way into the hobby, with all
the costs that that entails.

If all you want to do is fly in the local park, neither the AMA nor a
full fledged club is going to offer much.  A little assistance from
somebody more familiar with the hobby will help though -- they can
check over your plane, make sure it flies well (so you know that any
problems are you and not the plane) and help you get through the
problems you're having.

| IMO, most small "park flyer" types are harder to control than larger glow fuel
| or even larger electric planes.

Yes and no.  Your standard 0.40 trainer flies a good deal faster than
this plane does, and is much less crash resistant.  And with generous
dihedral, it'll be more self-correcting than most four channel planes.
The biggest problem I've had with these sorts of planes have been the
very limited control authority -- but for a beginner, limited control
authority is a good thing, as long as the plane is trimmed right to
begin with.  But it's very hard for an absolute beginner to trim a
plane right or to even realize that it's not trimmed right ...

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Doug McLaren - 27 Jun 2004 20:54 GMT
...
| | Any wind is too much.

I forgot to comment on this.

As an absolute rule, you never fly in wind faster than the top speed
of your plane -- because you'll lose it downwind immediately.

Slower than that, it becomes an issue of how much wind you can fly
with, with how much turbulence you can handle.  Trainers and other
planes with limited control authority are at a big advantage in heavy
winds, because they can't recover from bumps in time before they smack
into the ground.  Also, smaller planes are at a disadvantage, because
a given bump will knock them more out of control then they would a
larger plane.

I don't know how fast these planes fly, but I've seen them and they
weren't that slow -- perhaps 30 mph?  If so, a 10 mph wind shouldn't
be too much of a problem if you know what you're doing.  But
certainly, if you're not very experienced with the plane, the less
wind the better.

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Frank Costa - 27 Jun 2004 21:17 GMT
As to joining the AMA, I may get flamed for this, but if you are going to
keep your activities confined to small electrics at parks and such, I fail
to see the reason for joining the AMA. If you decide to go with larger
planes, and glow power, than yes, you need to join the wonderful
organization known as the AMA, because you will need to be tought by an
instructor at a club, and you will be needing to fly at club fields. Try
flying in the very early morning or the last half hour of daylight when
there is no wind, and let us know how your aerobird flies in this condition.

> Bought aerobird challenger, seems too hard to control. May be it's too windy
> that day. I'm Los Angeles area, can somebody help me? Should I join AMA?
jeboba - 27 Jun 2004 21:47 GMT
Join the AMA! It's not just the insurance! Nearly all clubs will require it.
The clubs will provide you with new friends who will be very helpful and a
flying field which will assure you have a place designed to fly. Ignore the
boobirds who are too cheap to join either AMA or a club. They spend hundreds
on airplanes but won't spend a few bucks a year to belong to a great
organization which got us the frequencies we use, etc.
You may decide to move up to a different aircraft some day. Most clubs have
members who are instructors and will be happy to help you if you are a
member. The benefits far outweigh the 'cheapos' who are loners and don't
join anything. Fly Safe! Have Fun!!

> Bought aerobird challenger, seems too hard to control. May be it's too windy
> that day. I'm Los Angeles area, can somebody help me? Should I join AMA?
The Natural Philosopher - 29 Jun 2004 02:32 GMT
> Join the AMA! It's not just the insurance! Nearly all clubs will require it.

Who needs a club?

> The clubs will provide you with new friends who will be very helpful and a
> flying field which will assure you have a place designed to fly.

In your dreams.

> Ignore the
> boobirds who are too cheap to join either AMA or a club. They spend hundreds
> on airplanes but won't spend a few bucks a year to belong to a great
> organization which got us the frequencies we use, etc.
> You may decide to move up to a different aircraft some day. Most clubs have
> members who are instructors and will be happy to help you

In your dreams.

> if you are a
> member. The benefits far outweigh the 'cheapos' who are loners and don't
> join anything. Fly Safe! Have Fun!!

The benefits of joining a club.

It costs money
You get to have other people shoot down your plane.
You get to have everyone except you know what is wrong with it. All
different answers.
You get to have someone else with 5 times your experience of smashing
planes smash it for you. After you have waited for the third thursday in
the month coinciding with a full moon and no major TV sporting fixtures,
which is 'newbie night' - all 13 minutes of daylight of it.
You get to have them all laugh at you when this happens.
You get lots of help picking up all the cheap bits, but the expensive
bits have gone missing, and the charger from your flight box as well
when your back was turned.
Instead of hitting a tree, you end up smashing the windscreen on the
club presidents new porsche. This is why you have to join the AMA. He
gets a new color job free every year from parking on the flightline.
Instead of crashing alone, due to inexperience, you get to crash for a
zillion more exciting reasons, like other people on your frequency, or
other people in your airspace, in humiliating company...
You get to wait on line for 45 minutes for a slot before crashing your
plane in 45 seconds, instead of just picking it up and heaving it off,
you have to switch off, go back recheck everything, wait in line 45
minutes before you can crash it again.
You get the excitement of being buzzed by the club presidents new 90
powerd Ultimate at 3 inverted feet over your head,  as you desperately
try to work out which way your model is pointing, whilst someone else
yells in your ear 'You should have never let it get that far downwind buddy'
When its all reduced to matchwood you get to buy all your gear back from
the guys that nicked it at the next swapmeet.
You get to hang out with a saddo bunch of technonerds that smell of
stale beer and glo fuel, who are so obsessed with the equipment that
they hadly ever fly their planes, and don't enjoy it when they do, as
they are constantly feeling challenged to perform some stunt that they
are not capable of.

Join a club.

You know it makes sense.;-)

>>Bought aerobird challenger, seems too hard to control. May be it's too
>
> windy
>
>>that day. I'm Los Angeles area, can somebody help me? Should I join AMA?
Doug McLaren - 29 Jun 2004 18:43 GMT
| The benefits of joining a club.

...
| You get to have other people shoot down your plane.

You can get that without a club.

| You get to have everyone except you know what is wrong with it. All
| different answers.

Ditto.  You can even get that here!

| You get to have someone else with 5 times your experience of smashing
| planes smash it for you. After you have waited for the third thursday in
| the month coinciding with a full moon and no major TV sporting fixtures,
| which is 'newbie night' - all 13 minutes of daylight of it.

You seem awfully bitter.  I never had any such problems with the club
I fly at a lot.  Well, I did almost get shot down once, and it was at
the club, but they guy did realize what happened pretty quickly and
apologized after turning off his radio.

| You get to have them all laugh at you when this happens.

You can get that without a club.

When my Lite-Stick disintegrated a few hundred feet up (I wish I had
that on video!  it was cool!) all sorts of people were laughing,
including me :)  No club needed!

| You get lots of help picking up all the cheap bits, but the expensive
| bits have gone missing, and the charger from your flight box as well
| when your back was turned.

I've never had anything stolen at the club.  In fact, I've had stuff
returned to me that I left behind -- once, when I put a note up `did
anybody find a battery pack matching this description' and one because
it had my name on it -- I didn't even realize it was missing when I
got the call.

| Instead of hitting a tree, you end up smashing the windscreen on the
| club presidents new porsche. This is why you have to join the AMA. He
| gets a new color job free every year from parking on the flightline.

Odd.  I'm not aware of any planes crashing into cars at our club in
the few years I've been a member there.

| You get the excitement of being buzzed by the club presidents new 90
| powerd Ultimate at 3 inverted feet over your head

You must have joined an awfully loosly run club.  The club I've flown
at lot at (HCAM) is very serious about the flight line, and you'd get
yelled at by everybody for intentionally flying over it.  They might
cut you some slack if you were a few hundred feet above it and only a
few feet past it, but three feet up?  Intentionally?  You'd be
cruicified -- and rightfully so.

I agree, this guy doesn't need to join a club, but they're not as bad
as you make them sound.  I did have a problem with another club, where
I was booted out for daring to disagree publically with the management
about their `owned frequency rule' (since it happened mostly online,
it was easy to put details up at
http://mclaren.frenzy.com/~dougmc/asf/.) But even in that case, it was
mostly just a disagreement with one or two people, and I've found most
of the club members to be very nice, helpful and friendly people.

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The Natural Philosopher - 30 Jun 2004 12:19 GMT
> | The benefits of joining a club.
> |
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> mostly just a disagreement with one or two people, and I've found most
> of the club members to be very nice, helpful and friendly people.

I did post a few smileys mate.

Sure, most clubs are a bit better. But the fact remains its far more
dangerous to fly at a club than in a field. The only benefit is you MAY
get instruction and help. In my experience this proved not to be the
case, and I DID lose some stuff from a flight box. And I DID crash a
plane into a car, when a ESC died on me - fortunately it was mine, and
it was a canvas backed land rover, and no damage resulted.

The club president DID take up my new plane and fold the wings for me.

I DID have to wait for many minutes to get a slot, and even if I crashed
immediately, someone else on my freq said 'you switched off?' and
procesed to fly the next twenty.

And teh club president DID do a fairly impressive low pass in a 60
powered ultimate. Which I thought was a bloody dangerous aeroplane even
though he did keep to the rules. One twitch on the ailerons and  off the
flight line and into the pits....full of people.And as a newbie pilts I
DID find it extremely unnerving to ahve other aircarft in teh air, aroud
mine, starung up behind me, constant chatter and worse, advice and worst
of all criticism of the 'shouldn't be allowed to fly here' sort.

I was CRAP. I couldn't fly barely at all - my experience was S/C RC from
the 60's and control line. I need a LOT of concentration, I needed a LOT
of space in wich to try and position things right, cos half the time the
model turned the wrong way to what I intended. I got absolutely zero
help at all. Training, it turned out was something that was available
one week in two in one evening only, if anyne turned up to be nice, and,
mostly they didn't cos the club didn't have newbies much (surprise
surprise), and if teh wether was bad that was it for two weeks.

I felt as though I had wandered into a group of guys who all knew each
other and went there to chat, fly their planes, and they had absolutely
no interest in me whatsoever.

Which is fine, but be aware that many clubs are just like that.
Mike Gordon - 30 Jun 2004 14:15 GMT
> You seem awfully bitter.  I never had any such problems with the club
>
> I felt as though I had wandered into a group of guys who all knew each
> other and went there to chat, fly their planes, and they had
> absolutely no interest in me whatsoever.

Hey DH, Why does this not surprise me,  If you were as arrogant with the
people at that club as you are on this NG then all is as it should have
been. Have a happy field DH you DO so much deserve it!

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Doug McLaren - 30 Jun 2004 16:13 GMT
| I did post a few smileys mate.

You posted ONE smiley in that post, mate :)

| Sure, most clubs are a bit better. But the fact remains its far more
| dangerous to fly at a club than in a field.

Perhaps.  With two planes up in the air, the chances of an accident
more than double -- there's still the chances of each plane having
it's own accident, plus you add the chances of a mid air or other form
of conflict.  But a club usually has a nice field, with large buffer
zones all around.  If you're flying at a park, rather than a buffer
zone you've probably got a bunch of kids playing soccer or something.

| The only benefit is you MAY get instruction and help.

All the clubs I've visited, formal or informal, have been quite
willing to help, even when the help isn't really wanted. :)

As for instruction, it seems to be a matter of asking, though I've
heard that some clubs make it hard.  Mine didn't.

| In my experience this proved not to be the case, and I DID lose some
| stuff from a flight box.

Hmm.  Maybe I've been lucky, though I'm more worried about losing
stuff at the park then at the club field.

| And I DID crash a plane into a car, when a ESC died on me -
| fortunately it was mine, and it was a canvas backed land rover, and
| no damage resulted.

That could have happened at the park too ...

| The club president DID take up my new plane and fold the wings for me.

I've heard that some clubs require that the president maiden any new
plane.  Seems incredible, but was that the case there?

(Of course, a similar rule is what started the war that was described
in the movie `Braveheart'.  Except that it's the lord rather than the
president, and the new bride rather than the plane ...)

Either way though, if he folded the wings, that probably means that
you'd fold the wings too eventually.  Usually one of the first things
I do when I fly a new plane is take it out away from everybody and
start doing very violent maneuvers (up high, of course.)  If the wing
is going to fold, I want to know it now, and I don't want it doing it
anywhere near something fragile (like people.)  So far, my planes have
held up.

| I DID have to wait for many minutes to get a slot, and even if I crashed
| immediately, someone else on my freq said 'you switched off?' and
| procesed to fly the next twenty.

Must be a busy club.  I've rarely had frequency conflicts, and when I
did, it was rarely a big problem -- people were nice about it.

| And teh club president DID do a fairly impressive low pass in a 60
| powered ultimate.

Well, that's not quite what you described ...

| and worst of all criticism of the 'shouldn't be allowed to fly here'
| sort.

Sounds like you just found a bad club.  Well, bad for a newbie anyways.

| I got absolutely zero help at all. Training, it turned out was
| something that was available one week in two in one evening only, if
| anyne turned up to be nice, and, mostly they didn't cos the club
| didn't have newbies much (surprise surprise), and if teh wether was
| bad that was it for two weeks.

Totally unlike my experience.  Training was pretty much forced on a
new pilot unless they could demonstrate that they could fly.  Most
training happened on saturday mornings, but I worked weekends, so I
was training with a retired guy who could do it most days of the week.
Quite often it was just us two out there, though occasionally he'd be
training two students rather than just me.  It wasn't hard to get
training at all.

And to his credit, there were no crashes during training.  And very
few afterwards too -- not counting foamies (where being almost
indestructable means that I'll try things I know are iffy), I've only
had a handful of serious crashes, and all were due to mistakes that
happened before the plane even took off (forgot to put the antenna up,
CoG too far back, plane too far out of trim to correct for with the
sticks.)  I'm a pretty mediocre pilot, but I guess I do know my
limitations.  I'd say he taught me pretty well (the mistakes made
before takeoffs are MY fault, not his.  And haven't happened in a
while -- perhaps I've learned!)

| I felt as though I had wandered into a group of guys who all knew each
| other and went there to chat, fly their planes, and they had absolutely
| no interest in me whatsoever.
|
| Which is fine, but be aware that many clubs are just like that.

And be aware that they're not all like that.  I've only seen one club
as a newbie, but once I got the hang of things I've visited a few, and
generally all the people have been very friendly (except for the ASF
incident, of course, but even so -- in that case, all but a very few
were nice and friendly, and still are, as I fly with several of them
on a regular basis.)

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jeboba - 27 Jun 2004 21:48 GMT
The little aerobirds should not be sold to beginners in my opinion. They are
very difficult to control and any amount of wind is awful. A good .40
powered trainer flies much better and is easier to learn on but you will
have to join a club to have a good safe place to fly it. And besides, the
club will have instructors. DONT try to learn without an instructor. You'll
crash and get discouraged. With an instructor and a buddy box you'll solo in
no time!

> Bought aerobird challenger, seems too hard to control. May be it's too windy
> that day. I'm Los Angeles area, can somebody help me? Should I join AMA?
GuW - 27 Jun 2004 21:53 GMT
All trainers should be electric! (not small and flimsy, but electric in the
.40 size)

I first started on .40 glow, with instructor, and I dont know how many
deadstick landings we had to do because either the plane came in too fast,
or the idle became unreliable, so going round for a second attempt wasnt an
option.

Now I have a .40 that could idle all day and still respond to a full
throttle, but the one in the trainer was awful.

Anyway, all who started on that trainer became masters of deadstick landings
(and that's not a bad thing) but it wasn't too fun in the beginning when you
had a strong tailwind and a 1/2 mile to the field. and low altitude....
Frank Costa - 27 Jun 2004 22:11 GMT
What kind of electric setup do you have that flies a .40 size trainer? It
can't be cheap. A little much to ask of a beginner to sink those kind of
funds into his first plane, IMHO. Electrics are great, but I don't
understand all this whining about glow. You would think the engines are so
tempermental and never run right. If you take 30 minutes to learn how to
tune an engine, and insure that your tank and fuel lines aren't leaking, you
are good to go. My OS and TT engines fire up, idle beautifully, and run like
champs all day. It's not rocket science.
> All trainers should be electric! (not small and flimsy, but electric in the
> .40 size)
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> (and that's not a bad thing) but it wasn't too fun in the beginning when you
> had a strong tailwind and a 1/2 mile to the field. and low altitude....
GuW - 27 Jun 2004 22:43 GMT
> What kind of electric setup do you have that flies a .40 size trainer? It
> can't be cheap. A little much to ask of a beginner to sink those kind of
> funds into his first plane

Well, it isn't cheap, but I dont expect the beginners to buy it, I was
thinking more like the club trainer (it was the club trainer that was
unreliable, not my first plane).
And for a trainer type, you wont need 3D capability, just decent airspeed...

And it is a bit on the expensive side as a club trainer too, but that is
money invested, not wasted.
And I'm willing to go down a bit in size from the .40, but not too much for
visability.
Once the money is invested, electric flying is cheap, clean and reliable,
and with a few extra batterys, there is virtually no ground time, and that's
a good thing when you have a group of people waiting for airtime.

The club trainer I was flying had an old OS .40, and it was tuned by the
book by the club's expert (although many others claimed to be experts too),
it was old and abused, and finally the club instructor flew it into the
steel container we use as a garage at our field, he claimed it was radio
malfunktion, my guess is that he was fed up with the oil soaked bastard that
never did run, and just shortened the lifespan of it...

Everyone at the field was happy to see it go, and finally the club got a new
trainer from the guy owning the local hobby shop, a shiny new plane that had
been sitting on the shelf a couple of years, and a .40 he had to take back
because he and the guy buying it never got it to run right...
This one does idle, but it doesnt give the rev's you could expect, and it
doesnt have any real power...

Still it was a bargain, it was a gift!
Doug McLaren - 27 Jun 2004 23:05 GMT
| All trainers should be electric! (not small and flimsy, but electric in the
| .40 size)

Electics do have a cost sweet-point ... and let me tell you, 0.40
sized is much larger than it.  A decent electric 0.40 sized trainer
and the stuff needed to fly it will cost you a lot more than a similar
glow setup.  Also, it's nice if a trainer has a bit more power than is
needed -- and in an electric, that's often hard to get.

| I first started on .40 glow, with instructor, and I dont know how many
| deadstick landings we had to do because either the plane came in too fast,

Going too fast causes deadsticks?

| or the idle became unreliable, so going round for a second attempt wasnt an
| option.
|
| Now I have a .40 that could idle all day and still respond to a full
| throttle, but the one in the trainer was awful.

Sounds like you just had a bad engine.

| Anyway, all who started on that trainer became masters of deadstick landings
| (and that's not a bad thing) but it wasn't too fun in the beginning when you
| had a strong tailwind and a 1/2 mile to the field. and low altitude....

One of the first things a good instructor will teach you is to never
fly far enough away without enough altitude that you couldn't get back
to the field if the engine died RIGHT NOW.  It's going to be less
important for an electric, but things do go wrong there too -- I've
certainly landed a few electrics that I could have sworn had a prop
at the beginning of the flight :)

I now fly electrics and gliders most of the time, just because of the
convenience, but a good glow engine can be very reliable.

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C G - 28 Jun 2004 03:50 GMT
> All trainers should be electric! (not small and flimsy, but electric in the
> .40 size)
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> or the idle became unreliable, so going round for a second attempt wasnt an
> option.
You should have fired your instructor :-)

Seriously, any self-respecting instructor should make sure this kind of
problem is corrected quickly.
Kin Lee - 28 Jun 2004 07:54 GMT
Thanks for all the info. My plan is to learn an airplane that is small
enough to fit in my trunk and don't plan on moving to glow plane coz of the
oil cleanup and too many field equipment. However, didn't know flying club
can loan the plane for me to learn. I'll probably join AMA and local club to
do that.

Thanks

> > All trainers should be electric! (not small and flimsy, but electric in the
> > .40 size)
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> Seriously, any self-respecting instructor should make sure this kind of
> problem is corrected quickly.
MikeF - 28 Jun 2004 11:24 GMT
Hello Kin,
Now that youve read through todays arguement over should/should not join AMA + get .40
glow instruction,
Id like to add in here.

Basically you have to make an informed decision, based on what YOU want out of this.

I taught myself on an electric Slowstick.....arguably a little easier to fly than an
aerobird, but i dunno, ive never flown an AB yet.
Once i got to a point where i wasnt crashing constantly I decided that yes, i did enjoy
flying. (duh) Yes i did want more planes, bigger, faster, noisier, etc. I happily ponied
up the dough and joined AMA - primarily for the insurance and because its typically
required for joining any local clubs. The bonus was the nice monthly magazine they send
you.
I recently joined a club too, and got a used .40 trainer as well. Nice bunch of guys -
though it seems to vary greatly from club to club. For a kid wanting nothing more than to
fly an Aerobird/Slowstick in an abandoned field, neither the club nor the AMA are
necessary. If you fancy something a little bigger/faster/gas powered in the future, then i
suggest joining now and asking for club instruction right away. I ended up joining anyway,
and with club intsruction i would have saved some damage on my s'stick. I did eventually
learn to fly it on my own, as will you.
You very well might find a local guy whos willing to train you at the local park without
AMA or club membership. Hobby shops are the best place to fish for those guys. Heck i
would, but im in 'Jersey. Any excuse to get out of the house....

Best of luck, Mike

> Thanks for all the info. My plan is to learn an airplane that is small
> enough to fit in my trunk and don't plan on moving to glow plane coz of the
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> > Seriously, any self-respecting instructor should make sure this kind of
> > problem is corrected quickly.
Kin Lee - 28 Jun 2004 21:53 GMT
Really don't plan on flying any big scale/gas plane. The reason I buy
aerobird is the Hobby shop quote me a 5ch radio, charger, esc, battery and
plane for about $300. So I went ebay and got the Aerobird RTF around $100. I
can spare $100 but $300 is too pricy for me and i KNOW i'll crash or lost
the plane.

I need instructions/instructor to help me learn to fly/tune my Aerobird. OK,
before I join AMA and club, can anybody help me learn at Sepulveda
Basin/Apollo field, I can buy you lunch of something... The field is close
to work, I can get there like early morning, lunch break, after work.

Thanks.

> Hello Kin,
> Now that youve read through todays arguement over should/should not join AMA + get .40
[quoted text clipped - 45 lines]
> > > Seriously, any self-respecting instructor should make sure this kind of
> > > problem is corrected quickly.
The Natural Philosopher - 29 Jun 2004 02:37 GMT
> Really don't plan on flying any big scale/gas plane. The reason I buy
> aerobird is the Hobby shop quote me a 5ch radio, charger, esc, battery and
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>
> Thanks.

Kin Lee

There is only one club worth joining and its here

www.ezonemag.com.

Ask in the general forum for any electric flyers in your area.

Any e-zoner worth his salt will be delighted to show off his superior
knowledge, and help you get your plane up.

And if he doesn't smash it, you know you probably have found a friend too.

If he does, name him and shame him on the e-zone!
The Natural Philosopher - 29 Jun 2004 02:16 GMT
> Bought aerobird challenger, seems too hard to control. May be it's too windy
> that day. I'm Los Angeles area, can somebody help me? Should I join AMA?

No.
It won't help you fly your plane one bit.
Kin Lee - 30 Jun 2004 20:59 GMT
OK, after reviewing all the response, I'm not joining any club/ama for now.
But I really need a experienced flyer/trainer to help me. Anybody willing to
help me at Apollo field with electric plane? Any contact info you can
provide me I really appreciated, and how much for training fee?

> > Bought aerobird challenger, seems too hard to control. May be it's too windy
> > that day. I'm Los Angeles area, can somebody help me? Should I join AMA?
> >
> No.
> It won't help you fly your plane one bit.
Doug McLaren - 30 Jun 2004 21:42 GMT
| OK, after reviewing all the response, I'm not joining any club/ama for now.
| But I really need a experienced flyer/trainer to help me. Anybody willing to
| help me at Apollo field with electric plane? Any contact info you can
| provide me I really appreciated, and how much for training fee?

Generally this sort of assistance is provided for free, but you could
always offer to buy whomever it is dinner or something.  You also
don't really need anybody that experienced -- you've got a pretty
simple plane.

Your plane won't accept a buddy box, so that option is out.  Which is
too bad -- it's a nice way to learn to fly.  But it's not that big of
a deal with a plane like yours.

I don't live anywhere near you so I can't offer much assistance beyond
this -- do you know where anybody flies?  Any local slopes, or parks
where other people fly other park fliers or gliders?  Any of them
should be able to help, as long as you're friendly and go up and talk
to them.  Or if you know where a club is, go talk to them -- maybe
somebody will help outside of the club.  (Of course, I guarantee that
they'll try to get you to join too.)

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