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I have an a-10 ducted fan sitting in my closet waiting to go this spring with my son.
I have an a-10 ducted fan sitting in my closet waiting to go this spring with my son.
You can disagree, thats fair.
My opinions come from my experiences. Ive flown everything from trainers to 3D, and those park flyers are fun, but they are a handful to fly in anything but dead air. To *learn* on a park flyer, you need dead air, to have fun after you know what you're doing, bring on the wind, but be ready to fix stuff!
Those are the types of planes that people who don't know how to fly purchase, destroy, and never stay in the hobby. I've never encouraged that because I like to see people get into a hobby and stick with it, because it really is a blast!!
I agree in investing in as nice a radio as you can afford. I was into Heli's, and thought I'd get into scale heli's, so I bought a 10 channel JR job, and while I never got into the kind of retractable gear/searchlight madness I thought I would, having that nice of a radio has allowed me to painlessly fly deltas, do all kinds of neat mixing of controls, rig up a P-38 plane with differential thrust to the props. And that's not even counting how nice the proportionate and differential controls are on this radio.
I don't think you need a 9 or 10 channel, but six would be nice. It would let you do any sort of conceivable airplane work, and get into heli's if you want.
Best piece of advice: Get a simulator. It's money well worth spent. Shop around, you can find last years version of Real Flight around for under $100. Bookmark this site: The Indianapolis Intl, Indiana Aviation Weather Report and Forecast - Wind Speed, Temperature, Wind Direction, Precipitation Forecast It will tell you when the best times to fly in your area are.
I'd also stick with electrics. This is just my opinion, and it's controversial, but gas/nitro powered planes are obsolete at this point. The price / performance / fun factor is higher in electrics, but again that's just my opinion.
Finally, get into foam aircraft as soon as you can, and start building your own planes. I'm in this for the skill and science, and while kits are okay, there is nothing like building your own from scratch. I can't recommend this forum/community enough: Foamies (Scratchbuilt) - RC Groups
Good luck!
It just sounds like you haven't really flown too many parkflyers, or had one bad experience and went back to gassers, or something
Completely agree... but I found real planes much easier to fly than the simulators.
Just go out and buy a GWS slow-stick and move up from there. you'll have a blast the whole way.
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Guys, I've really been wanting to get into this hobby. I don't mind the cost of good gear. But, I am not interested in flying a plane with a joystick from the ground. That doesn't sound fun to me, since you can't see what the plane is seeing, and crashing would probably be too common. I need to be able to see a cockpit view, to simulate real flight, and to fly long distances. So is there a popular plane that comes equipped with a camera and a remote that has a video screen on it?
Is anyone here into flying planes? I have never flown one but I want to try. What is a good plane to learn how to fly? Of course I don't want to spend a lot of money on a learning plane but I want a good one that is going to hold up. Is there a beginner plane that you can upgrade once you get better at flying? Thanks for the help.