THANK YOU ALL FORM A beginner

I just want to thank every one for this forum. I am a very green pilot and have had a tough time to get my shuttle plus to stay up in the air. Every time i get it to hover great and think that I am ready to try the next step somthing goes wrong and i have to fix it and start all over. Every one hear is very good to beginners and let us know that it can be done. I sit down and read this board one or two times a day and see that i am not the only one having problems and that if i stay at it that I will some day get it.
thank you and please forgive the very bad spelling.

[colin]

Hi,

All of us were beginners at one time, and we are all STILL beginners when we take the next step to doing something new.

Although I've not flown for quite a while now, I've already done rolls and loops on my shuttle.

I'm sure if I were to take it out for a spin one of these days, I have to "relearn" those things again.

The one thing I can encourage new pilots is to keep practicing on the simulator... and when you get to the field... just imagine that you're flying the simulator and do not think about how much money you've spent! (or going to spend if you crash).

The psychological fear will make you a lousy pilot and worst still... a lousy learner.

Cheers and happy hovering!

Originally posted by colin


... and when you get to the field... just imagine that you're flying the simulator and do not think about how much money you've spent! (or going to spend if you crash).

The psychological fear will make you a lousy pilot and worst still... a lousy learner.

Tell that to my nerves If I'd be doing that I'd be flying loops, rolls and inverted stuff, I can do that on the sim no problem, but in real life I barely make forward flight and I once attempted a stall turn or two (successfully)

Hours/days/weeks of practice on the sim do not take away my stress ) no matter how hard I try to imagine. well in my case anyway.

My stress goes away as soon as I get comfortable at doing something, in the beginning lifting and stay in a hover gave me high blood pressure Now the stress is more or less gone doing that. I hope that soon forward flight and doing funky turns will be the same

cheers
tbone