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■ Make sure you have the right model programmed into your
transmitter.
■ Check the direction of each control surface before flight.
■ Remember something wrong on the ground, never improves
in the air.
■ Do a range check of the radio system with the engine
running and check with.
■ Monitor battery voltage after each flight in case one servo is
draining your battery.
■ Recheck all screws, horns and linkages for slop after your
maiden fight and always check for damage in the event of a
rough landing.
■ Have an experienced pilot perform the maiden flight if you
have any doubts in your skills.
■ Take a break after you first flight and let the adrenaline burn
off by bragging to your fellow members how good it flies.
■ Fly conservatively your first few flights.
■ Listen to your engine run and have an observer with you to
remember what you talked about during the flight and encase
you get into trouble.
■ Always balance your props, vibration is a killer.
■ Remember nose heavy airplanes fly all the time, tail heavy
airplanes fly only once. Be on the CG!
■ Fly 3D two mistakes high in the beginning and not close to
people, other planes, or the run way.
■ Being a center of the runway hog does not endear you to
fellow modelers.
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