We did that about a dozen times at least, checking the wind direction with grass blades tossed in the air every single time, and each time moving the trim buttons on my radio about one click to compensate for what the plane wanted to do on it's own. He actually took about 3 or 4 quick steps with it held level and then gave it a toss, perfectly flat. He then threw some grass blades in the air and took the plane and tossed it (without the motor running) perfectly level to the ground and straight into the wind. He didn't really think it was neccessary to start trying to attain a perfect center of gravity at all. He checked my plane for center of gravity and said it was close enough to the ideal of 1/3 of the wing width. I told him I was too new to learn trimming after I had it airborne, so he took me over to the edge of the field where the grass was about 3-4 feet high.
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He said he'd show me the most important lesson - which was how to trim the plane. When I got to the park today, there was a guy flying rubber band planes with no radio who I got to talking to and told him I had no idea what I was doing.
I would even lay a ruler along the back wing to make sure it was perfectly in line with the control surfaces.
It seems I have been WAY too pre-occupied with thinking that just because my back wings were dead flat with the control surfaces, it would fly right. I just wanted to post this to all the beginners like me.Īfter a month now of crashing my SLO-V trainer, sometimes getting it airborne and sometimes not - and when I finally DO get it airborne, having to fight the controls to keep the stupid thing in the air, I finally today learned how to at least get a head start on RC flying.
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