MiniacRC
Well-known member
Hello folks. I apologize in advance for the long post.
I would love some advice from y'all on what to mighty mini scratchbuild for a strong intermediate precision stunt trainer.
For the last two years my hobby journey has involved a lot of simulator practice, some flight experience and mostly design work. In the first year of my journey, I progressed from knowing nothing about flight controls to being able to fly snappy high energy warbirds in clean circuits with occasional aerobatic like loops and inverted. (Credits go to the FliteTest tip videos and my flying buddy/mentor Dominic). I can now keep a plane in the air, save it from crashes if I lose orientation, and put on a decent show with crazy maneuvers (heuristic stick-banging so to say ).
But for all of the second year, since I was caught up designing and decorating planes, I feel that my confidence level has gone down and piloting skills have just stagnated. I find myself afraid to fly inverted even though I have footage from a year and a half ago of me flying rolling circles toward myself ten feet off the ground with my first plane, the tiny trainer. Part of my fear definitely stems from decorating planes and having the responsibilities of shooting flight videos, etc. for design releases.
I want to take a step back and start going in the right direction again in terms of piloting training. To that end, which 4-ch mini (F-pack) plane would y'all recommend I build and fly to improve from doing basic inverted passes and immelmans to doing clean knife edges and precise point rolls (not necessarily 3d)? I'm looking for something small and simple to scratchbuild that flies precisely without coupling and stuff so I can fly the wings off of it and repair it easily!
@jpot1 @Dr. Looping Looie @Grifflyer
I would love some advice from y'all on what to mighty mini scratchbuild for a strong intermediate precision stunt trainer.
For the last two years my hobby journey has involved a lot of simulator practice, some flight experience and mostly design work. In the first year of my journey, I progressed from knowing nothing about flight controls to being able to fly snappy high energy warbirds in clean circuits with occasional aerobatic like loops and inverted. (Credits go to the FliteTest tip videos and my flying buddy/mentor Dominic). I can now keep a plane in the air, save it from crashes if I lose orientation, and put on a decent show with crazy maneuvers (heuristic stick-banging so to say ).
But for all of the second year, since I was caught up designing and decorating planes, I feel that my confidence level has gone down and piloting skills have just stagnated. I find myself afraid to fly inverted even though I have footage from a year and a half ago of me flying rolling circles toward myself ten feet off the ground with my first plane, the tiny trainer. Part of my fear definitely stems from decorating planes and having the responsibilities of shooting flight videos, etc. for design releases.
I want to take a step back and start going in the right direction again in terms of piloting training. To that end, which 4-ch mini (F-pack) plane would y'all recommend I build and fly to improve from doing basic inverted passes and immelmans to doing clean knife edges and precise point rolls (not necessarily 3d)? I'm looking for something small and simple to scratchbuild that flies precisely without coupling and stuff so I can fly the wings off of it and repair it easily!
@jpot1 @Dr. Looping Looie @Grifflyer
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