Ready to Fly Again
Alongside my training as a private pilot, I have been learning how to fly model helicopters. I started with a model airplane, but it was crashed by a flight instructor during its maiden flight. The connector for the left aileron disconnected in flight and the guy just stopped flying the plane. I can land a real airplane without ailerons, by just using rudder and trim, so I figure that he should have been able to do the same with a model one. Anyway, after this bad first experience, I decided that model airplanes were not for me and got a model helicopter instead. I built an Align T-REX 450XL with collective pitch and spent about 25 hours learning on the simulator. The helicopter is now complete and I expect to take it to the field sometime in February. Hopefully this one won’t crash, or at least not during the first flight.
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