Learn Your Remote Control Flying Skills Slowly, and Prepare For a Little Crash and Burn

Learning to fly remote control airplanes is a differentwhen starting out, but they're slow flying models, and
effort than controlling cars or trucks. Especially whenas experience in flying them comes to you, the thrill of
your actions threaten impact with another object.flying them leaves you.
While operating the car or truck, if you see a crashYou'll likely turn toward faster planes for your next
coming at you, you let off the speed control, slow theflying adventure.
vehicle down, and either turn away from the roadblock,Those flights in faster aircraft start with straight sprints,
or at least don't hurt the model as badly.timing how quick you fly from one point to another.
RC planes give you the option of turning away if youEventually you'll enter racing competitions with your RC
head toward a pole or tree, and react quickly, butflying friends to soothe your excitement, and increase
inexperienced pilots also face the possibility of suddenyour thrills.
uncontrolled dives into the ground.After a while you'll start performing aerial maneuvers
For your first plane, choose a trainer.such as turns, rolls, loops, and touch-and-goes,
Manufacturers design these airplanes for beginners,improving your flight skills. Your racing plane can
and build features in that help lower the amount ofperform some of these maneuvers, but its design
damage from sudden impact.won't let it do anything spectacular, and practicing on
Some helicopter models offer trainee landing gear thatyour old trainer (learning the particulars of those aerial
protects the craft from hard impact (which oftenmaneuvers) is your best option before taking a chance
happens with helicopters). Airplane trainers normallyon crashing your more expensive plane.
have gliding capability in case of loss of power, andBecause trainers and racers have limited capabilities
ruggedized structure design for withstanding the crashfor true maneuvering you'll soon find yourself wanting
and burn episodes that beginning pilots experience a lotmore action.
during their first flights.The stunt plane awaits you with hours of excitement
Impact with some object is common for the beginnerand fun for your airtime activities. Made for flying into
in any radio control hobby, no matter which model theytight turns, barrel rolls, loops, stalls, stunt planes are
first learn.perfect for taking your piloting skills to the next level.
Skilled control of RC equipment takes time, patience,Once you become an expert at flying the remote
and practice.control stunt airplanes you can create your own aerial
Once you get the process of operating a trainermaneuvering patterns, and put on some thrilling
ingrained into your subconscious, you'll look for the nextneighborhood RC air shows.
level of RC experience. Trainer planes are great fun