Jacked69

Hello everyone, I am new too this board and new too the hobby. I hope too learn alot here. A little about me experience and what aircraft I own, well I have a Alpha 40, a Hangar 9 Camel, a Top Flite p-51 which I have not flown yet as my experience is not that high yet but I am buying airplanes that I can move into now while my job is still going good not knowing how the economy will be this coming new year, as I am sure you can all understand. I am going to get a Pulse XT 40 PNP from Hangar 9 after about 20 more hours on my Alpha 40, has anyone flown any of my planes I mentioned? Also I am new too rc but do have my Real Airplane and Helicopter Certs, both VFR and IFR and have flown cessna 152's 72's and 82's , piper cherokees, Turbo Bonanzas , 2 stunt planes and my god fathers Cessna Citation C5 lear jet. But have noticed RC is really different, but knowing how flight works really helped me get a jump on the sport. Thank you all and I am glad to be here. Jason

FILE IFR

Welcome aboard! There's a lot of info here for taking.

I can tell you this from experience, your full scale background will give around a 10% head start compared to somebody not in aviation.

Take it slow, ask questions, join a club and meet an instructor is my advice.

Nestle into RCU and soak it up

Cheers!

Warbird Joe

What FILE IFR said and welcome to the addiction Jacked. This is the best hobby in the world, hands down. Definetly take your time and enjoy it and go to a club to get an instructor. This is the best advise you will ever get to start off this great hobby.

w8ye

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Main thing is you get some flying hours behind you. Hard to do this winter so the simulator will have to do for now.

But in time you will be completely relaxed flying whatever model

Jacked69

Thank you all for the welcome, I left my old board because of getting ridiculed for asking questions that a new person to the sport would ask, I got bashed, harassed and all you can think of. Almost made me want to get out of this hobby but then I found this board. You all seem like I can learn alot from you all. And I may ask some dumb questions but I just want to learn all that I can.....

Jetdesign

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With my however many thousands of posts since May I can vouch that there's nothing wrong with asking lots of questions here! There are a few Pulses at my field and they are actually quite similar to the Dolphin, which was my second plane. They are awesome second planes; very easy to fly but capable of doing lots of fun things.

This hobby has been a blast for me, but I went the other way - started flying RC planes in May and it led to meeting a guy at my club who works on full scale planes. He took me up and I got to fly a Cessna...dream come true. I'm giving some serious thought to getting my license soon. I've heard it's different though - supposedly it's easier to go from RC to full scale than the other way around, so (of all people to be saying this) take your time

Anyway, welcome to the hobby and to the forum. I hope you have as much fun with all of this as I do!

Yub, yub, cmdr!

Welcome from a perennial newbie (me)!

By the way, FILE IFR, do you ever fly out of KORH?

rlipsett

Dumb questions are questions you don't ask that left unaswered allows you to blast your airplane into people or objects. The people who know it all sometimes don't know it all all of the time. My case in point is the one time I didn't ask a friend to check my newest airplane setup and I missed something grossly wrong. reversed aielerons what a crash on the maiden, I am still trying to piece it together.

apwachholz

Jacked69 -

That is exactly why I decided to start my own site dedicated to the beginner Jacked69. The gent's in this post are alright in my book..no question is dumb, it's only dumb to not ask questions. Funny you should mention you're a pilot, my girlfriend is one as well and she loves this hobby but had a very hard time transitioning from a yoke to 2 sticks on a box. Personally I should have her post to you as she has some very interesting insight to this hobby being a pilot / r&d specialist for the FAA. This is what she said to me at one point...

"...when you get past the bumps of learning how to control the airplane with the radio essentially the flight characteristics are all the same no matter the plane."

It's funny because she's the one verbally coaching me in the air while I'm learning how to fly a twin engine!("Yes, it will pitch down and to the right if you kill the engines. So don't do that because you don't have counter rotating engines Mr.!") While I'm the one teaching her by tandem cord how to fly her Piper Pawnee! It took her about a month of flying before she started to practice "slipping" (if I'm using that correctly) while on landing approach. Now I'm learning flight from her - it's great!

Anyway, if you're interested in the site here it is:

[link=http://www.controlchat.com]Control Chat - Dedicated to the new and aspiring rc pilot![/link]

And let me know if you'd like to strike up a conversation w/my GF - she'll give you a real good pilots perspective on the whole hobby as well as some funny stories on how we rc'ers terms things wrong - a lot.

FILE IFR

Hundreds of times, I learned to fly there. I got my ticket in the mid '80's at Amity flight school.

Jacked69

GArcfield, I know the feeling, but being a pilot and having flow over 35 different airplanes it is MUCH easier going from full scale too RC, because remember your always in the cockpit in the plane, but RC all controls are reversed when flying toward you, that is a real hard issue to get used too. I learned on a Cessna 152, then went too a 72 then a 82, then a piper cherokee low wing, then got my IFR and VFR and flew my godfathers cessna citation c5 lear jet that cruises at 400 knots. I have flown 8 acro planes, 3 twins, 7 low wings, my favorite being a supercharged bonaza and then got my helicopter cert for IFR and VFR, now those are a REAL HANDFUL to learn to fly, with planes you have room for error, you can let go of the yoke and read the map or program your heading or GPS, now a heli takes 110% focus, hands off for one second and good bye, your out of control. But the basics are very similar, the pedals on a plane steer on the ground and control the rear, the pedals on a heli control the tail, but helis have a stick between your legs and no yoke, which is the hardest thing to get used too. My godfather is Shania Twains personal pilot from Oshkosh too Ohare in chicago, I actually flew her into Ohare last year, what a dream come true. And when you get your IFR and fly at night solo for the first time is when you really put your nerves too the ultimate test. talk about sweaty palms, wow talk about a heart attack LOL... APW thank you for your support, your right no question is dumb and I feel very comfortable asking anything on here unlike my other board, I am a professional bodybuilder and nutritionist for a living and wanted a hobby to take away job stress and diet stress and wow is this hobby addictive. And I am here to stay. Thank you all. APW I would love to talk to your girl, were in the same situation, only my girl does not fly real planes but trying to get her on her first maiden on my alpha 40, hopefully she dont wreck it getting it too the field before she even flys it LMAO...

apwachholz

Jacked69 -

I'll get her on the forum! She's an addict now...yes, I said it. Just this weekend we were perusing through some web sites and she flipped out when she saw a [link=http://www.nitroplanes.com/arfloez46von.html]Long EZ[/link] kit on sale. So needless to say, she snapped it up. So the rundown of her planes are (I'm serious here - we've been dating 6 months and she didn't have one plane at the time):

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6) [link=http://www.multiplexusa.com/models/kits/minimag.php]Muliplex MiniMag[/link]
7) Muliplex TwinJet - no longer in production (but a cool twin motor flier!)
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WHEW!....I think I'm done. For now......so she says....

bruce88123

jacked69 in post#1 you mentioned flying "my god fathers Cessna Citation C5 lear jet". Did you know Cessna and Lear are 2 different companies and VERY different planes?

BTW, I found it easy switching from flying a full scale acro plane (Pitts) with a stick and then then going to Mode 2 just thinking of the right stick as the planes stick.