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Article #162: Model Aircraft Piloting Made Easy - Crash As Often As You Want While You Learn!

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Flying model aircrafts rates as one of thousands of dollars. Sadly, this fact
the most intriguing hobbies. Very few "was" absolutely true – before!
things can compare to the experience of No More!
seeing your first RC airplane or Nowadays new pilot can learn to fly
helicopter take flight. For non-pilots, without having to pay for expensive
seeing someone else fly an RC aircraft is instructors. Even better, they can crash
extremely captivating. So captivating their aircraft as often as they want
that often times it makes you want to without having to spend any money to fix
learn to fly! it! How? The answer comes on a CD Rom,
Then the story starts. You spend hundreds the Flight Simulators!
or thousands of dollars to buy your first To be fair, RC flight simulators are
airplane/helicopter plus a few more nothing new. In fact, they were around
hundred for the radio, fuel, batteries, since the 80s. However, early flight
gyros, glow plug, flight box, charger, simulators were extremely unrealistic and
fuel pumps, engines, starters and a so expensive that it might be cheaper to
hundred different things that the shop actually crash your model a hundred
tells you is a must. Just when you times.
thought that the cash spill finally ends, Luckily, competition and technology
it doesn't! changed all that. Modern flight
New RC pilots quickly learn their first simulators' realism rivals that of the
lesson – that it's hard to fly! So latest computer game – in other
what to do? Easy, get an instructor! words, extraordinary. Some versions come
Well, this also means more money and a with an exact replica of a real radio
few hours of lesson time. No matter! In controller as a joy stick, others will
for a penny in for a dime! You take those come with a connector cable that allows
lessons and learn everything you can from learning pilots to plug in their favorite
the (expensive) instructor. Pretty soon, RC controller, really good versions will
you can fly "half" the time! Great! allow for both options.
Then eventually the lesson time runs out The physics engine that come incorporated
and you're on your own. That should be in these flight simulating are also the
ok, since you are now "half" a pilot very best modern programming technology
– or so you thought. On your next will allow. Simply put, everything that
flight, you take the RC airplane / can and will happen on the real airfield
helicopter out and attempt your first can and will happen in the simulated
solo flight. Suddenly for some reason flight at 99.99% accuracy. And that is
that you don't understand, you loose not an overstatement.
control and crash. Unrelenting, you fix Price of these RC simulators is dropping
the craft, spent (much) more than a few too. Really good and well branded
dollars and hit the flying field again. simulators costs around $300 dollars.
You finally realize why you crashed last Others that are just as good are
time, and you overcome it. Wonderful! But available for just under a hundred bucks.
this time there's another hurdle, you The best deals come even cheaper than
turn the aircraft in to face you, you get that, they are free! Don't think that
disoriented and then – yup – free RC simulators aren't up to scratch;
another crash. You fix it; try again, they offer features that rival their high
crash again, and again and again – priced counterparts. Still, even the most
and yet again. A few months, a dozen expensive package will pay for itself on
crashes and thousands of dollars later the very first simulated crash you make
you finally learn how to fly! Wow! Great (and you will make lots of them).
ending! So there you have it, the best way to
This story repeats itself over and over learn to fly an RC model today is to
with every new pilot. No matter how crash, crash, crash, and crash some more
careful, a new pilot will crash more than until you got it! Of course, do the
a few times as they learn. In doing so, crashing on a flight simulator where it
they will have to pay hundreds or won't cost any money.






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