Haha great vid, been there many times...spend weeks or months building your balsa baby only to have to disintegrate in a 15 second flight!!!! Happily for us pilots the new foam kits are basically preassembled and have full electronic stabilization built in so we have much better than a 50-50 chance of getting it back on the ground in one piece.
New people to RC, Don't let this scare you into not flying. These are two idiots with no idea. The plane's CG was off, and trims way off centre. I have been flying RC planes for 18 years. I've only ever crashed 1 that was not repairable. To be successful, 1. Get an RC simulator and get about 10 hours on it. 2. Join an RC club and you will have people help you. My first 4 flights on my trainer were on a buddy box. I solo after that all on my first day at the RC Aircraft Club. My one and only crash that destroyed a plane happened about two years after that.
One crash? Geese well done! but bloody boring! They’re toy planes not real ones! as a driver the saying goes if you don’t crash you aren’t driving hard enough! I fly planes that way now and I’ll never join a club full of stiff’s again! Ever tried freedom? There’s no broken bones so send it! It’s nice to keep an expensive model in nice condition but what is the point seriously! No one cares if it’s shiny! Build a disposable plane and fly it hard with no regrets and especially no rules! Fk the club! Then tell me after actually flying if you even remember previous club flight?
I know this has been out a while but I just wanted to say how sad that the pilot never took the time to watch any of the FliteTest beginner series vids on youtube. next. no time spent on a simulator. next. didnt have the plane balanced properly. what a shame and waste of money crashing a perfectly good plane because of being in a rush to do what? Show off for everyone. Never let others push you into doing something you are not ready to do yet. They dont care, its not their plane or money. I bet the first guy that tryed it never once said hey just wait till you are ready. Many a good plane gets destroyed because of pressure from someone else so they can see you wreck.
I agree back in the day we had a trainer cord and it was a lot of frustration when I got my flight simulator about 1999 I was able to fly so much better
Not one person concerned about flying with houses in nearly every direction? No wonder the FAA got involved in this hobby. As for flying too fast-- the left stick controls the thottle. It is not an On-Off switch. Yes I'm critical in every aspect of these two flights.
This EXACTLY. I see videos all the time of idiots flying near houses, and it ruins it for the rest of us that actually fly off a true flying field. That small plane would go through a wall at wide open throttle. That motor would slice and dice, i know, i have a permanently crooked finger from a .40 size motor just like that in an airboat. Dumb ass people man ruin the entire hobby for the rest of us
Watching this Feb of 2024. Ahhh yes! the Good-ol’ days when we were just coming out of not giving a ______ ! about _____ ! 😂😂😂 This video is awesome! 😂😂😂
I wasnt ready for that ending lol I love flying... First time I met an ICE agent he was teaching his son how to fly... He couldn't fly... So it wouldnt end well... I took the lead... Taught them both... From then we became best friend... Took him 2 years to find out at the time I had no documents lol we went on hunting trips and shooting ranges together... Built rifles... And I still joke about him being a horrible agent but We are all glad we met. God bless y'all
this plane will almost fly itself.its either very tailheavy or attack angle of leading edge to low.not enough bands on it.and too much control throw on elevator and ailerons they fly great in a 15 mph wind.I love this plane with a fox schnurle 45 to 60
I remember watching video of people flying in New York, park with tall buildings everywhere. But, the infinite setting in the videocam can be confusing on the actual distance between them and those other houses.
really sorry to see your plane go down. i hope u dont give up. keep at it, practice makes perfect. i know what it feels like only too well when crashing a plane. i also learned myself to fly and it was very frustrating when bringing my plane home in bits every time i went out to fly. but i eventually mastered it and u will too. good luck. by the way im flying 27 years and still get the same buzz now as i did when i started. brilliant hobby.
Remembering the feeling. The boundary between control and catastrophe is Sooo small! That was enough flight time though to allow the bug its due... Thanks!
For whatever reason, this 10 year old video has been parped in to my recommended list 2 in the last 3 weeks. Not that I'm complaining, I think it's great that youtube are recommending smaller youtubers these days .
These guys need to practice about 20 hours on a realflight simulator G 3 or better... That poor airplane... I flew mine successfuly about 50 times. The tower trainer is a great airplane to fly!
That was a nice plane to learn with. Its too bad you didn't take it seriously. Could have gone much worse though. You shoukd have sold it cheap to a kid that wanted to learn.
I know this is a very old video, but I assume that the word “safety” didn’t mean a thing for the pilot and the people around, right? How on Earth anyone can assume that flying in a neighbourhood between houses was ok??
If you want to see how to do it wrong and break every safety rule going this is the video to watch. As others have mentioned try and find a local RC club its great fun...😊
There are so many things done wrong in this video I don't know where to start....reminds me of when I tried to teach myself to fly RC. It took 3 planes and way too much cash at the time ut I got there lol
The days of buying #64 rubber bands. If any reason at all to buy a 40 size anything but a trainer its to have a plane with 1/4 x 20 nylon bolt and wooden dowl holding the wing on. I remember putting 10 of those things on and throwing them away because of fuel oil soak. The good ol days NOT lol
The kid in the video says "you're getting it too high". NOOOO, actually!!!! A beginner should always stay 3 mistakes high to have room to either A. correct the mistake or B. Hand the controller over to an experienced pilot who can. For that plane (about a 62 inch wingspan), I'd say about 200 feet doing left turn circuit patterns. That wasn't even 100 feet. But that isn't even the real problem. Flying in a small residential neighborhood????? ugh!!!!
Exactly what id expect, I’ve been an R/C Builder and flyer since an early age. I’m 77 and still flying R/C..This plane wasn’t balanced or set up right…it actually flew half way ok….considering…
This is how we did it back in the day. We had no youtube, google, or internet at all whatsoever. It was a long, painful, and expensive learning curve. Few people had access to R.C. clubs. Just figuring things out by themselves is what men did all day every day. Young people today wouldn't last a week.
I just chance upon this video and I must say it is very dangerous and irresponsible. What if it crashes onto someone? It had happened before. Flying near houses, even if they are your own and property only teaches you to be more irresponsible. That is why in the manual it says, "this is not a toy". Even in rc sailing and power boating, there are rules to follow for good reason.
I honestly think these things fly way too fast to learn on. It's much safer (and cheaper) to learn on sailplanes or park flyers with a very low wing loading. Not to mention dealing with the tuning and care of a glow engine, which is an entirely different set of trials and errors.
Really should not be doing that in a neighborhood. People believe these things are as harmless as the smaller store bought electrics. They are not and can cause property damage and kill someone. I have been flying these things for over 30 years and would never try to do what you were doing. Please get it to a field.
***** These old fart airplane guys think they know everything. They all told me I need 20 hours of instruction to learn to fly one. LOL I was doing aileron rolls within 15 minutes of my first instruction. I never went back for another. Total waste of time. Don't listen to these old airplane farts.
He is not the first person i have seen try to fly that didn't pull the power back an slow it down so they could get the plane under some kind of control .
+Brandon topchev You need (in germany) an insurance and with with such a loud plane you need to go to an official air field for model airplanes. Tip: Train with a flight simulator before.
2wheels Onegoon in the UK, we can fly whatever we want, where we want subject to airspace classification, but under 8kg though, we can literally fly anywhere, even in military airspace but cause an accident and your gonna get spanked by the mod
don't know why anyone buys petrol planes anymore, battery and motor technology has come so far now that they out perform petrol engines and are super reliable and can be shut down in a heartbeat if theres an emergency too.
@@dmithsmith5880 really, so the real man chooses the lower powered option, the one with slow throttle response and also the one with less flight time then eh? Electric outclasses petrol in every way now.
@@stevefox3763 I have many petrol and many electrics..probably 50/50, a smart person like myself likes them both equally and it makes them a more educated and diversified hobbyist. They each have pros and cons. To simply state that electric outperforms petrol in every way is the most ignorant statement I have ever heard... you mention runtime hahaaa..Hilarious!! I have a 80" stick with a 50cc weedeater engine on it that will fly for just shy of 1 1/2 hours on a full tank.. Try to fly 80" stick with batteries for a hour and a half let me know how that works out for you 😂.. and sometimes the sound and smell of a nice petrol engine just brings that extra manly touch to the hobby.
@@dmithsmith5880 actually, that statement is ignorant, you clearly haven't looked oast the junk put in rtf craft. Trust me, take any engine and you will find a motor, esc and battery combo that will wipe the floor with the petrol if you spend the money. Seriously, I can keep a diy foamboard ft cub in the air for 45 mins and cover 20+ miles on a 4000mah 3s (I have a video of a 37min flight), you think I couldn’t make your 80" hit an hour and a half with the right setup? I have a 74" balsa petrol to electric conversion done by me, the motor weighs significantly less than the engine and fuel is also very heavy, all of that weight and a lot more can be put back in with the electric power system and I garuntee 2 hours would be achievable in your 80" if pushed with the right gear and enough battery capacity on board.
