Sykoitk_
New member
I've mostly been flying smaller planes and have a solid grasp on 4 channel aircraft control. Mostly standard sized FT designs and nerdnic's equivalents, with some ultra-micros as well. Basically planes where you can just pump the throttle and get out of trouble pretty easily. I JUST got the E-flight 1.2m T-28 Trojan and after a bit of a tumble I've decided I'm not quite ready for that much responsibility just yet.
I was flying along a field and noticed myself drifting a little to close to a treeline. I instinctively started lowering the throttle to reduce the approach speed, which was mistake number 1. I did however try and keep movements slow and methodical to get turned around. It started to lightly stall towards the trees and I added power quickly to regain control. After rolling it back over it then heavily stalled towards the trees and you know the rest. Lesson learned, bigger planes fly with their wings, where smaller planes fly with their motors.
Before I get some spare parts I want to know what I can do to get some practice handling higher energy and higher wing-loaded planes without having that much money for repairs (I.E. scaled up DTFB designs preferred). What sort of designs would you recommend for this?
In the meantime I'm going to build a nerdnic design and use the lower-power system to try and force myself to stop relying on power so much.
I was flying along a field and noticed myself drifting a little to close to a treeline. I instinctively started lowering the throttle to reduce the approach speed, which was mistake number 1. I did however try and keep movements slow and methodical to get turned around. It started to lightly stall towards the trees and I added power quickly to regain control. After rolling it back over it then heavily stalled towards the trees and you know the rest. Lesson learned, bigger planes fly with their wings, where smaller planes fly with their motors.
Before I get some spare parts I want to know what I can do to get some practice handling higher energy and higher wing-loaded planes without having that much money for repairs (I.E. scaled up DTFB designs preferred). What sort of designs would you recommend for this?
In the meantime I'm going to build a nerdnic design and use the lower-power system to try and force myself to stop relying on power so much.