Andrew Gideon wrote in
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:56:35 +0000, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

well, flying an RC airplane is a lot closer to flying a real airplane
than any sim I've been in.

Ugh! I hope not.

I've never landed an RC plane in a "fully successful" manner. My
record with real aircraft is significantly better laugh.

I suspect it has to do with my inability adopt the perspective of the
RC airplane. That is, I can see the runway environment from a real
plane; I have to imagine it for an RC plane, and I'm apparently not
capable of doing so well enough.


It's just practice.


On the other hand, I've many hundreds of real landings, and a far
smaller number of RC "landings". So it may merely be a matter of
experience.


Yep.


[I did used to start a lesson with any new CFI explaining my
experience with RC aircraft, just to keep them on their toes laugh.]


I've found it helps. I've taught a few guys who flew RC first to fly and
they took to it fairly quickly. I've only had one major problem with
them and that was with a guy who was an RC aerobatic champ. He did
everything right first time every time up until I taught him spins. His
recovery was to go to the vertical line when rotation stopped!
OTOH, I've had a few students who had "leaned" in sims. It took twice as
long as it would teaching from scratch to undo all the damage that had
been done.


Bertie