Getting started in Radio Control #2
It's hard to stay excited if you crash every time you fly, especially if you have to go home and fix your plane. This is the main reason I am a fan of EPP deltas and EPP flying wings as trainers. They they are simple and durable. Deltas and flying wings can be built and repaired in a fraction of the time of many other trainers. I carry a hot glue gun to the field and do some simple repairs at the field.
I had a gas/fuel flier who built balsa planes with nose mounted motors tell me that he didn't think there was that much difference in the durability of the wings verses what he was flying, so I flew some vertical aerobatics with my EPP flying wing and finished with an intentional dive into a brick wall at half throttle and turned to him and said "Your turn!" Of course he didn't do it and he knew that his plane couldn't hit a wall and survive. I picked my plane up and flew it again without any adjustment or repair.
I avoid the high maintenance planes. I used to build fiberglass planes that took 100s of hours to build and they were fun for a while but I burned out because of how much time it was taking to keep them flying. I hardly flew for most of 3 years because of burnout and frustration. I got my enthusiasm back when I went back to simpler planes.
No one else really cared that I had these super planes. The truth is everyone will be more concerned about their own projects than about yours. Other fliers like to see what
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