What RC flying is all about!

Yea Gods! This has been an interesting path getting this lot together! I reckon it was easier to build my first plane. Anyway we are up and running. (Well mostly!) So let us proceed …

As a beginning, lets see what radio controlled airplane flying is all about and where you start

Well, you go off to your favourite mega store, pick up one of those big glossy boxes that bugle ‘Ready To Fly! Radio Controlled Airplane! Easy! All You Need Right In The Box!

You know, the one with the Mustang or Spitfire with its guns blazing on the front, the one that parts you from a sizeable chunk of your cash and therefore gives you a really good warm glow.

As you drive off home, thoughts of roaring through the sky terrorising sparrows and incautious little old ladies flow through your head.

Back home the lounge carpet quickly disappears under a drift of packing pieces and general bits as you proudly display your acquisition.

She Who Lives Indoors raises her eyebrows at your latest insanity, and being the sceptic she is, says, ‘you can’t fly that thing!’

‘Corse I can’ (Quickly banishing any creeping doubts that may have arisen from a quick glance at the manual.)

Anyway, kids fly these things don’t they? How hard can that be?

You can hardly contain your impatience as you wait for the necessary battery charge time to pass. (Surely they could be sold with charged batteries?!!)

At last the batteries are done and there you are at the local park with the clan gathered around for the maiden flight. She Who Lives Indoors, (AKA ‘I Wouldn’t Miss This For The World!’) is armed with the family video recorder.

Comments of ‘Look, a radio controlled airplane’ drift across from passers by and those creeping doubts begin to get a little bigger. ( Full blown panic isn’t macho.)

You place the model on the grass and, taking a deep breath, push the leaver the pamphlet said was the throttle fully forward as fast as you can. The model leaps forward across the grass and you suddenly realise that your mind has gone completely blank.

You realise that this is not a good time for that to happen, and powered by the need to do something, anything, you jerk back on the leaver on the other side.

In your blank mind state you watch in amazement as the model rises off the grass and executes a perfect loop. Well, it was perfect except for the last bit when the ground got in the way.

As you stare at the impressive pile of bits the model has reduced itself to, your day is improved no end by the football playing kid who, staring at the wreckage, says ‘Core! You sure smashed that Mister!’

As you trudge off home dripping pieces you know from the chortles of ‘Got it all, got it all’ from She Who Lives Indoors that this is not the end….


Been there? Done that? Got the T shirt? If you have, then, any comments?

If you haven’t had the experience yet, but are thinking about setting this scenario in motion, then you have come to the right place! Visit The Radio Controlled Airplane and read what I say on choosing a radio controlled airplane and on learning to fly a radio controlled airplane. They could make your experience a whole lot better!!

Also seriously consider getting the e-book Model Airplane Secrets. (Link at top Right of blog) If you are thinking of starting this hobby it is worth it as it gathers together a huge amount of the knowledge you will need to be successful.

While that information will eventually find its way here, it may take a while…

The links to the other sites etc are at the top right of the blog page.