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GET ALL THE TRAINING YOU WANT FREE

 

Have you ever wanted to learn to fly R\C Airplane?

Green River Lake R/C Club has instructors and available training systems ready for those fledging pilots or for someone who just wants to try it out. This offers a very good opportunity to those folks who want to see if this hobby is something that they would really enjoy with no initial investment. 

The quickest way to learn is through what is called a "Buddy Box" system which utilizes two radio transmitters (one for the instructor and the other is the trainee) connected with a "buddy cord" between the two systems. This offers the quickest and most economical way to learn to fly and also gets you as the student on the control sticks very quickly. Time is spent teaching operational safety, very basic aerodynamics to help understand what makes the airplane fly, the controls on the radio 
and how they work and the basic flight maneuvers.

We use a simple and easy to fly trainer type aircraft similar to the one pictured on the right It's 
not a speed demon by any means, but it is a very stable and simple to control "learning" platform which will quickly have you earning your solo wings. 

We offer initial flights lessons for those first time fliers and if someone who wants to 
continue to learn and earn their wings free of charge. But first we invite you to become a 
"Trainee Member" of "GRLRC Club".

A Trainee Member is- 

An associate member, who has paid club dues ($15) for the calendar year can learn 
to fly under the guidance of a Club Instructor with the "Trainer Plane" club own, free of charge. Trainee Membership is not renewable and reverts to full Membership upon meeting the AMA membership requirement.

If you already have your own airplane and radio gear, and looking for an instructor to help you 
learn to fly, first we would love to invite you to become a Trainee Member of GRLRC club and our instructors are more than happy to help you out on any flying day.


Available Flight Instructors:  

 Dave Thomas  dtthomas@kyol.net     
Dwight Sooter  dwightjune@windstream.net  
Richard Cameron

So come on out and give it a try!!!

 

 

GREEN RIVER LAKE RC FLYING
CLUB INTRODUCTORY FLIGHT TRAINING
OBJECTIVES


Training Steps: 

  • Straight level flight parallel to Flight Line

  • Turns

  • Circles

  • Figure 8's

  • Take Off

  • Landing


Training will be with a Trainer type aircraft, Club Instructor and Buddy Box Training flight duration usually ranges from 5 to 15 minutes of flying time. Beginners working to achieve straight level flight parallel to the Flight Line will be afforded sole use of the filed for their training session. After achieving this first step the field is open to additional flyers during their Training flights. Completion of Introductory Flight Training varies with each individual. 

A few Web Sites you might want to visit: 

AMA (American Modelers Association) 
www.modelaircraft.org 
RC Universe (RC University topics on Airplanes) 
www.rcuniverse.com SPAD's (Special Plastic Airplane Designs) 
www.spadtothebone.com 

Go to Free Plans, then click on Index and you will see all the planes that have been made of Cholorplast (plastic cardboard). This is certainly not all that have been made but is quite a list and plans can be downloaded for each one on this index. These are certainly tough and cheap.