Will that bind with the Spektrum receivers used in the ultra micros?
I bought a a Spektrum Dx6i (for 79.99) and it works fine with my UM. But it won’t bind to my V911 or other WL Toys.
I flew control line 049s quite a lot at one time, sometimes by myself and sometimes with children and sometimes in a club, and have tried with only a little success to fly 049 and micro RC airplanes. Getting started is hard. The hard thing about CL 049s is that they are limited to a small arc and need to be heavy enough not to be blown away by the wind, so you have to develop reflexes before you respond fast enough to keep them in the air. Flying early in the morning when there is the least wind helps. I like solid balsa wood for beginners, because it is easy to make, very rugged and easy to repair. Flat slab wings work well if you have enough power to weight to overcome their high drag. They are always a bit stalled and can transition smoothly into a helicopter-like mode. Don’t even think about how it looks until you can fly reliably. Balsa wood and paper can be made very beautiful, but not five times a day.
About ready made versus home made, Keith Laumer said that there are perfectly good models that you can buy, but that way you lose exactly half the fun. Of course it also depends on the budget available. Having made it yourself increases your confidence in your ability to repair it.
With free flight, my problem was I had a fuel tank that didn’t leak and fuel left in it from the last time the engine was run. With RC, my main problem was not being able to see what it was doing, so next time I painted the right wing green and the left one red.
Where do most of you fly your airplanes? I live in Seattle and I can’t recall seeing people flying at any of the parks. I’m guessing it’s not allowed.
Fiance is at school so I could not get a video. Clipped a branch and broke the flapper thingie on the back that makes it turn. Taped it back up with some yellow electrical tape and back in flight.
I did OK. longest flight was maybe one min before loosing control and crashing. Did a few controlled loops and lost control once up pretty high, cut power and was able to get it back into control into a glide and gracefully brought it down for a lighter crash landing LOL.
It is way too windy today for it though.
And its broke. Needs a new complete tail. Was not even my bad flying skills that did it. My fiances brother drove by and saw me flying it and stopped in and got to talking. My son decided to throw it around like a paper airplane. After he bounced it off the truck a few times I told him to stop because it is just stryrofoam and it will break easily. He said no it wont, and kept doing it.... He came back with the tail end flopping in the wind and said you can just tape it... LOL.
Can you glue it?
Just get some foam safe CA glue and glue it back together. You might be able to tape it too. That is one of the reasons I didn’t like micros as the foam is fairly brittle and hard to fix. The Park Zone Sukhoi I had was like that. The tail was made out of foam that was like a styrofoam cup, very think and some what brittle. I broke the tail and then it went down hill from there. I mean I crashed it a few times before it became completely broken. I could fly it in 5-10 mph winds, but any thing above that it and couldn’t even move upwind. It would just sit there trying to go forward lol. It has to be a really calm day to fly micros. I think a park flyer size would be best and the foam they use for those is fairly easy to repair. I think they are made from EPO, but I am not positive. The T-28 form Park Zone is supposedly a really nice plane. I really liked my P-51D. The Vapor would be a really nice one to fly. It is super small and flies so slow.
There is also the micro vapor that is small enough to fly in your house.
Here is a video of someone flying it in there house.
But like I said, I think a park flyer size plane would be the best size. They can handle some wind and are easier to repair than the micros. If worse comes to worse, you can buy a whole new body kit and swap the electronics over. With the micros, it’s not so easy. Once I trashed the Sukhoi, I just threw it all away. The micro servos and everything were just too small and got damaged anyways. The super cub would be a great one.
One last thing. Don’t get discouraged. It’s never if you will crash, it is WHEN lol. Everybody does it. The only way to get better is getting out there and flying. But a simulator will help a lot. I suggest this one from Hobby King. Or if you get a radio, you can buy one of the kits that has the cables that allows you to use your radio. This will save you from having to spend more money repairing/fixing your plane.
What do you think of this one?
http://www.bananahobby.com/4-ch-blitzrcworks-red-star-trainer-rc-trainer-airplane-rtf.html
From this review, it looks like a nice plane.
If you want to begin flying with RC planes, buy AXN Floater (Clouds fly) along with turnigy 9x. This is the best you can do. The plane is easy and fun to fly and the radio is good for even larger and more complicated planes 
I don’t know if I’ll get one or not but it’s got to have landing gear.
Trust me, you can’t go wrong with AXN floater or MULTIPLEX EasyStar II (or HOBBYKING BIXLER) You can alwys land on the grass or catch it in the air. It is not easy to land on the gear. I was disgusted of flying because of the first plane I bought (1,5m cessna) that is pretty hard to fly and i took me over a year to try it again with another plane. I wish I bought the AXN before! 
I have Spektrum DX8 radio and I have to tell that there is not big difference between this and T9x for normal user. You can flash custom firmware to the T9x to gain even more features than the DX8 has.
Its like $7.99 for the new tail section. Not sure where it broke that it would be able to glue it and have it function properly.
The Champ was doing pretty good. At about 1/3 throttle I was doing decent, but it was windy so when a gust came I would loose control. Also sometimes I would turn too much and over correct and then I would panic and over correct again and it would be all over lol.
I will probably order the new tail section later today so I can repair it this week and fly again next weekend.
I don’t know about the plane but in the RC community Banana has a pretty lackluster reputation. ALL their planes are wonderful, crash resistant, and suitable from everyone from beginner to expert. Uh Huh…sure.
That is not a beginner plane, that’s for sure. The gyro would probably help but it won’t overcome newbie dumb-thumbs.
Video reviews from vendors and folks that have been ‘bought off’ by vendors need to be reviewed skeptically. My first plane (Megatech skyliner > aka Megaturd) had fine video reviews but actually would not even fly. I had a pilot with lots of experience try.
If you don’t KNOW, the better option is generally buy something that has a large/huge following and GOOD support (parts available), especially if you don’t have a clue what you are doing besides trying to learn to fly. You WILL have crashes and you WILL need repairs and parts. It’s good to figure purchases from that point of view to start, NOT on how pretty and cool a plane is.
Or at least the US, or your country, based internet sales.
I jumped right into 6 ch 450 class helicopter. Scares the crap out of me but just lifting off and gently setting her down is a feeling of accomplishment, for my age. No 3D for me!
The problem is the parts are like ordering parts for the flash lights. Plane or heli I would highly recommend supporting your local hobby shop at sale time;)
Thanks. Good advice I’m sure! I was thinking along those lines. A Cessna isn’t a pretty plane (to me) but I figured it was pretty stable. Parts are something I was wondering and thinking about.
I’ve only starting thinking about this recently. I do want to be able to land on wheels however. The landing is the cool part to me. Even in a full size plane you can take the plane off and fly it around on your first lesson. It’s the landing (and navigation and emergencies) that takes most of the time to learn.
I don’t think I have much interest in extreme aerobatics either. I do want the plane to look like a plane and to be big enough to see while flying it. I’m still thinking about all this however.
Well... a little glue and a little tape and I thought she was ready for flight. Dont know what else is wrong with it but it just wants to climb now. Low throttle and even trying to use the remote to keep it low. I was attempting to keep it in control and it was up about 50 feet, wind took it and I cut the power and tried to turn away, but she went right for the house. Ended up hitting the stairs on my back porch at about 20-25 mph I would say. Broke the prop and the main wing. Now its about $25 + shipping to have her air worthy again.
Think I used too much glue and tape on the tail end to repair. Thats the only thing I can think of why it seemed tail heavy and just wanted to climb...
If I end up having to buying a new Champ, the son is not touching it... ever.
I grew up with a Cessna 150 Aerobat, the one with the checkerboard tail. Nope, not pretty and darn slow. The fun part was when you went inverted or actually made a full loop;) That was $10 an hour wet time, Bayou Flying Club at Lakefront Airport in New Orleans. Today, I bet it would be $60 an hour or more?
Check the internet for RC flying fields in your area, hell they got to be a lot of them there. There’s always Boeing Field…
Flydiver, from this thread offered to show me how to fly RC’s and I’m going to take him up on it. It turns out we live close to each other and there is a RC friendly park nearby as well.
I learned to fly 150’s, 152’s, and 172’s. I don’t know what it costs to fly today either. I learned a long time ago and it was in the $30/$40 hr/range.
You got the CG too far aft. You probably needed to rebalance it after the repair.