On Saturday, March 8, 2014 9:00:27 PM UTC-5, John H. wrote:

I went by the field this evening and was introduced to another 'expert'. He also advised the Super

Cub and offered to teach me to fly it. I think that's what I'll go with and get the upgraded

transmitter.

Whatever you do, don't take it to the local park to "try it out" before you go to the field for your first lesson. No matter how straight the control surfaces look and how careful you are setting things up, a new airplane will not fly straight until it's trimmed out. It will bank, turn, dive or climb, and usually more than one of those. It can be a handful for an experienced RC pilot to keep a really bad one in the air until you get the trim set so it'll fly straight with the sticks at rest. For someone's very first flight? Forget it.

On Sun, 9 Mar 2014 05:24:07 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Saturday, March 8, 2014 9:00:27 PM UTC-5, John H. wrote:

I went by the field this evening and was introduced to another 'expert'. He also advised the Super

Cub and offered to teach me to fly it. I think that's what I'll go with and get the upgraded

transmitter.

Whatever you do, don't take it to the local park to "try it out" before you go to the field for your
first lesson. No matter how straight the control surfaces look and how careful you are setting
things up, a new airplane will not fly straight until it's trimmed out. It will bank, turn, dive or
climb, and usually more than one of those. It can be a handful for an experienced RC pilot to
keep a really bad one in the air until you get the trim set so it'll fly straight with the sticks at rest.
For someone's very first flight? Forget it.

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Do you adjust the trim while it's in the air or do you have to bring
it back down for each adjustment?

On Sun, 09 Mar 2014 08:36:38 -0400, Wayne.B wrote:

On Sun, 9 Mar 2014 05:24:07 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Saturday, March 8, 2014 9:00:27 PM UTC-5, John H. wrote:

I went by the field this evening and was introduced to another 'expert'. He also advised the Super

Cub and offered to teach me to fly it. I think that's what I'll go with and get the upgraded

transmitter.

Whatever you do, don't take it to the local park to "try it out" before you go to the field for your
first lesson. No matter how straight the control surfaces look and how careful you are setting
things up, a new airplane will not fly straight until it's trimmed out. It will bank, turn, dive or
climb, and usually more than one of those. It can be a handful for an experienced RC pilot to
keep a really bad one in the air until you get the trim set so it'll fly straight with the sticks at rest.
For someone's very first flight? Forget it.

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Do you adjust the trim while it's in the air or do you have to bring
it back down for each adjustment?

In flight and on the ground.

http://rcvehicles.about.com/od/rcair...rplaneTrim.htm

On Sunday, March 9, 2014 8:36:38 AM UTC-4, Wayne. B wrote:
On Sun, 9 Mar 2014 05:24:07 -0700 (PDT), wrote:



On Saturday, March 8, 2014 9:00:27 PM UTC-5, John H. wrote:



I went by the field this evening and was introduced to another 'expert'. He also advised the Super



Cub and offered to teach me to fly it. I think that's what I'll go with and get the upgraded



transmitter.



Whatever you do, don't take it to the local park to "try it out" before you go to the field for your

first lesson. No matter how straight the control surfaces look and how careful you are setting

things up, a new airplane will not fly straight until it's trimmed out. It will bank, turn, dive or

climb, and usually more than one of those. It can be a handful for an experienced RC pilot to

keep a really bad one in the air until you get the trim set so it'll fly straight with the sticks at rest.

For someone's very first flight? Forget it.



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Do you adjust the trim while it's in the air or do you have to bring

it back down for each adjustment?

You do it with trim tabs (small sliders on the transmitter beside the joysticks) while in the air on it's maiden flight. If things are way out, you can re-adjust the linkage when back on the ground to get your trim tabs back close to center, but if it's that far out something else is wrong (warped wing, CG, etc.).

On Sun, 9 Mar 2014 05:24:07 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Saturday, March 8, 2014 9:00:27 PM UTC-5, John H. wrote:

I went by the field this evening and was introduced to another 'expert'. He also advised the Super

Cub and offered to teach me to fly it. I think that's what I'll go with and get the upgraded

transmitter.

Whatever you do, don't take it to the local park to "try it out" before you go to the field for your first lesson. No matter how straight the control surfaces look and how careful you are setting things up, a new airplane will not fly straight until it's trimmed out. It will bank, turn, dive or climb, and usually more than one of those. It can be a handful for an experienced RC pilot to keep a really bad one in the air until you get the trim set so it'll fly straight with the sticks at rest. For someone's very first flight? Forget it.

The group at the school has a Facebook page, which I found out yesterday. Funny you should say what
you did, 'cause I was thinking of exactly that - wanting to be able to fly the thing before getting
my first 'lesson'. But I'll be 'good' and wait for one of the guys to show me.