GrumpyGnome

Very nice......

Yup, all mine are on 3 position switch. Lots of people put them on back/side sliders or rotary pots, for finer control, but I'm happy to minimise my finger workload on the landing phase!

Excellent - many years of good sevice ahead, hopefully!

To make life easy, you could have a go with one of these. https://www.sussex-model-centre.co.uk/collections/rtf-aircraft/products/ranger-600-rtf-powered-glider-with-flight-stabilization. Everything you need, it's practically guaranteed to be set up correctly. Only other cost would be insurance, and CAA registration for anything above 250g (I suspect this plane is above 250g..). A couple of spare batteries sounds a good idea.

Snow, hail, sleet, wind 😞. Tomorrow looks promising, although the forecast is between -2 and -4 degrees. Still, indoor flying tomorrow afternoon is guaranteed........ Those VMC hurries look good and seem to fly well.

There have been a couple of suggestion in your other thread.........

I used to fly in my local park, but it was only possible until around 7:00 that's when the dog walkers arrived with he two significant issues: a) dogs will chase planes b) dog walkers seem to delight in walking quite close to you, often where you want to land. Having said that, I used to enjoy myself, but only flew very lightweight, mostly very slow, models - just in case.... by lightweight, I mean well under 500g. The biggest challenge with larger models will be the amount of space needed for a landing approach, I think. If the bye-laws allow, and you comply with regulations/recommendations around proximity of non-involved people (sounds like that won't be an issue), have a go. Personally, I'd look as something slow and relatively light with a degree of stability built in - I think someone has already suggested a powered glider. For foam, Phoenix's fly well (I'll have a look where you can get one), with a receiver equipped with stabilization, or an add-on. For balsa, the Balsa Cabin Sonata-e flies nice and slowly. The Aviator suggested in the YouTube link earlier, flies well, and is light but will get very small very quickly - don't know how your eyesight is!

Definitely variable then. We have a relatively small hall - 4 badminton courts; he flies on beginner mode as it's a tad uncontrollable on intermediate and expert. He flies constant figures of 8, and if taking off from ground, it determines it's own direction! Landings are always 'arrivals'. Nice cheap way of getting into the air though.

Really? a club mate brings one to our indoor sessions and can't fly at less than about 75% throttle, it just falls out of the sky with a vicious tip stall. Maybe they're quite variable in performance....

You can download Phoenix (a very good sim) free as it's 'abandon-ware' - from https://www.rc-thoughts.com/phoenix-sim/. It also allows you to build/customise models.... You will need to buy a dongle which you can get cheaply off ebay (e.g. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354096624986) or search for similar cables in UK shops. You can also download hundreds of user-created models from here https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?2382571-User-Built-Models-for-PhoenixRC Have fun!

Why resurrect a 2 year old, dead, thread with such negativity?

Welcome! Your own strip? Nice. Lots of nice people and good chat here.

Hmm, not sure I trust this article too much. He has no planes, and quotes drone pilots as having "yaw on the left stick, and rudder on the right"............ think the popularity comments are just his opinion rather than fact. I started off with a three channel set with elevator and primary 'steering' on a single stick. When I was taught, on a 4 channel set, I was persuaded that separating primary controls (now ele and ail) resulted in smoother flight - deffo a good thing for gliders. After a break for marriage and kids, on my return, I switched back to primary controls on right stick - can't remember why but might have been that the shop had no sets in other modes (that I could afford!) ..... have been this mode for last 20 odd years.

Now that's a great offer.....

Ask 1000 flyers for advice re transmitters and you'll get 1001 different answers! OpenTX/EdgeTX transmitters seem very popular with drone flyers - not sure if that's to do with the electrickery (GPS/stabilisation/flight controllers) but OpenTX/EdgeTX is, in my opinion, superb. If you can think of something you want to do, the software will allow it. Radiomaster TX16 transmitter seems popular with drone fliers as well as a number of fixed wing flyers on this forum - me included. The inbuilt multi-module allows this tx to talk to many other manufacturers receivers... Usual advice would be to visit a club, see what they use and find one that feels right. But...... research how you'll get GPS and RTH which is less common on fixed wing aircraft. When it comes to RTH, I'd personally forget about it, and get some tuition to remove the fear. You should never really be in a position where you don't have line of sight to your plane, unless flying fpv (in which case, your spotter should have line of sight). I'd also suggest that on your A10 you'll have such low flight time that RTH is pretty pointless - by the time it's out of sight, and the RTH turns it around, it'll likely run out of battery before it gets back! As it drops, your stabilisation will presumably try to lift the nose, lowering airspeed to a point where it may well stall and crash. Sorry. It's the usual advice. Find a club; get some tuition (there may be a club trainer); remove the line of sight fear; get some hours in on something more forgiving than an A10; get someone to check out your A10; have fun!

Ditto

Yeah, a real bargain! Don't forget the downloadable planes and sites at rc thoughts.com and rcgroups .... Enjoy.

Wet wet wet. Windy windy windy. Wet & windy, wet & windy, wet & windy. That's been our weather recently. Even affected our indoor flying - just 4 of us yesterday...

Do you have the manual ? https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1208918/Black-Horse-Model-Chipmunk.html May help....

You could lay it flat, weigh down the corners, and blow warm air over it. ... although tbh, it should be so thin that it not being flat will not be an issue.

Are you assuming everyone has an A certificate? I don't and have been flying safely for 45+ years......

I snapped my achilles tendon stumbling off a kerb..... wasn't even drunk......

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354096624986 this is the one I bought - works with all the txs I have with a trainer socket - an old EFlite heli tx, a FlySky tx), a Taranis, and a MicroZone tx. Can't get my Radiomaster to work with it....... It took about 10 days to arrive. Ebay currently lists similar items from UK sellers - type 'simulator cable'........ If you look on RCGroups here https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?2382571-User-Built-Models-for-PhoenixRC you can download Phoenix (and update to 'final' version), plus download tons of models and flying sites.

That's a nice design.....

Phoenix is a decent sim. There may be a Phoenix model here https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?2382571-User-Built-Models-for-PhoenixRC