How to land. (Landing Procedure)

Excellent!! thank you and I love the way you lot are explaining, am ok with technical stuff but I like to start with basics first then expand (a bit like the " for dummies" series of books lol)

this is a stickied and permanent thread right? dont want to lose this, want to keep for future ref

As long as you don't do any of these... your landing is a good one... :woohoo: (ignore the first crash.... you would be doing terrible if that was your attempt to land... anything after the first one i think is a crash landing)



Tom

lol cheers Tom. Lot of them seem to lose their tyres as they land, that normal?

willowlea wrote: lol cheers Tom. Lot of them seem to lose their tyres as they land, that normal?

No not really, not unless you own a piper cub, Sopwith pup or Tigermoth To heavier landing for the airplane.... should be smoother....

this video will explain how to do it....




Don't just try flying off videos though... that'll only end badly... like it did for me aha I joined a club soon after

Sarah, if you want to scare yourself senseless like I did... heres another crashing video aha

The first crash is really good because it looks expensive

Its not a sticky but we do have a decent search feature.

I like watching the experts demonstrating scale crashing!

Well that should have put Sarah off Tom

Not put Beard off Sara though :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :evil: :evil: :evil: Can I be the best man ????

Garry

The Beard wrote: Well that should have put Sarah off Tom

My pleasure..... aha Sarah don't let it put you off... it did me for a while but I don't understand why because models are easy to fix and you won't need to fix them if you do all the right flight checks and can fly... so no need to worry

When you crash a model, it only hurts your bank account (unless you hit yourself with it!)

Eric wrote: When you crash a model, it only hurts your bank account (unless you hit yourself with it!)

True, but don't forget the belt off the Mrs, once she finds out how much you've spent repairing/replacing it :whistle:

Sarah, don't be put off. Crashes in the early stages are mostly inevitable, maybe less so with instruction, but a cheap, proven, and easily repaired first model should help build your confidence. If you're like me, you WILL get a real kick out of your successes, making the downers easier to shrug off. I often still do a little victory dance when I manage a good landing with something like my PZ Spitfire on long grass :blush:

I love these Toob crash vids, but those comments deriding the pilots abilities (of alleged lack of) often make me laugh. Those people either never fly, hence never crash, or they are super human with the perfect model :whistle:

Aah super human thats Garry, perfect model Pulse XT 40,never crashes ,you descibe Garry perfectly.

Sorry all, maybe I shouldn't of posted those videos.... Sarah please don't let it put you off.... just posted them as a bit of a laugh. I agree with you Martin about the comments... they are so funny, I wonder how many models they have crashed and blamed it on the aircraft....:whistle:

Wish I could get sound back on the computer