n00b in Calgary

[datrek]

Just got my first R/C airplane for my birthday! I wonder how many feet I will go on my first flight before I crash hehe.

[keok]

I'm guessing that since your here its a Super Cub (Great choice)Welcome this site is a wealth of information to help you with all aspects of your new plane. I would suggest taking it out on a very low wind day with ACT turned off (ACT has caused more crashes than prevented IMO) If you want to practice before hand a great way is with a simulator www.flying-model-simulator.com/ is a pretty good one and its FREE! this will help you with one of the most common Noob problems, Orientation. Orientation can be confusing because say when the plane is coming at you what way do you need to push the stick in order for it to go in the direction you want. Some say wiggle the stick in that direction and see if that's what you want. I remember it by thinking this way : if the plane is coming at you push the stick in the direction of the wing you want to come up.

And remember the plane wants to fly straight and level by itself we are the ones that make it crash into the ground ;D use small inputs on the controls

Happy Birthday...awesome birthday present

[datrek]

So where can a person fly in Calgary without running into problems with by-law officers wanting to write me a ticket?

[datrek]

That program will not work on my computer, I use windows vista upgraded to windows 7, which version should I be downloading?

[flydiver]

Go into the Forum on the FMS link for help with other versions of Windows. The Cub transmitter won't work anyway so a USB type is worth getting if FMS will run on Win7.