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| Created: | Tue Jan 13 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
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| Number of topics: | 1706 |
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Keith,
If you are going to try teaching yourself here are a couple of hints.
Put the trainer in a nice safe place. Buy a Wanderer glider and
build it to accept an engine. Order a .049 engine. Put it all
together and throw it gently. Do that for about 3 weeks. Now start
the engine and break it in. Launch it by hand and rebuild it.
When you have it fixed launch it again and rebuild it. Now when
you can fly it without breaking it put a bigger engine on it. Add
a few other goodies (wheels tail lifter). Go fly it. Rebuild it
when you discover that when you miss the runway the wheels rip off
the fuse. I did a lot of talking with people before I started spending
for this little hobby. A friend of mine built his first as a trainer.
I opted for the glider. His flew great with the instructor on the
first flight and then on the second went straight up then down -
cut the fuel line when he assembled it. Repaired it and has enjoyed
it a lot since. (He will try his first takeoff sometime in the next
week or so). Mine has been on the cutting edge for teaching both
of us and shows the wear and tear. Any day out has been spending
1 hour + to fix up and clean up. This is with a gentle plane that
we thought we had down pat with hand launches and landing. The
gentleness went out the window with the engine. Dirty engines,
cut fuel lines (added external tank 3 minutes was not enough). My
friend has seen a lot of problems in the pits at the field. He has
passed on a lot of them to me. Some would be real bears to find
by yourself. If my life settles down some I will be getting with
instructors and join a club locally. Until then it will be - get
it in the air fly it, crash it, fix it. Enjoy your fixing.
Jack (silent til now) Kromer
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| 106.1 | A glider may not be a bad idea to THROW around | LITE::M_ANTRY | Mon May 01 1989 16:43 | 17 | |
Being a Glider Guider, I like the idea a couple of reply's ago.
Go out and buy a glider kit, say a Goldberg Gentle Lady for $20
or so dollars and build that. You can then throw that around the
local school yard and get some idea of flight. Also a glider can
only sustain so much damage from 10 foot high. As you feel braver
try to find a small grassy hill that is 30-40 foot high that you
could throw it off of and steer it around before it gets to the
ground.
I have used this method to test fly new gliders and it works pretty
well. In fact in your case I think it would work quite well.
Also another hint to get the controls down right is like someone
point out about taxing a plane around a square line painted on the
ground. You can do this with a inexpensive R/C car. This will
help you get the comming and going down pat.
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