Author: The RavenThe Raven
Date: May 16, 2008 01:42
"Tom" earthlink.com> wrote in message
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> After attending the TopGun RC plane meet in Lakeland, Florida last month
> I've got to buy an ARF RC plane trainer.
> When I was a kid I did pretty good with U control model planes. Remember
> them?
> My brother sent me a link for a trainer but I want to get the best,
> ideally one that'll grow beyond a trainer.
Most trainers are capable of far more than people ever use them for. My
Seagull Boomerang 40 has 300hours of flying and is looking really sad, yet
it will still do things most pilots would never think it capable of
surviving.
I've overpowered it, dived it well beyond flutter, pulled massive 'wing
breaking' G, landed it inverted, flown through trees, discovered it's
absolute maximum speed (just won't go faster no matter how big an engine),
hovered it etc etc.
> I'm willing to spend several hundred bucks maybe more.
You're wasting money and getting no benefit for it. Try a cheap trainer,
assemble it well, and (once you get used to it) flog the death out of it.
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