Fly fast and up two or three mistakes high. You want to avoid stalling your warbird in almost all situations, so keep the beans on and fly quickly! It may seem more natural to fly slower (then you won't crash as hard right?!) but this is simply a false sense of security. I see all too many pilots crashing their aircraft from simply flying too slowly. This should help you get a feel for the aircraft without actually getting airborne. Try making it a little nose heavy relative to the recommended position on your first flight - it's always preferable to tail heavy. Warbirds are particularly sensitive to this, especially if they're fighter aircraft. Also, as with all RC planes, get your center of gravity (CG) right. Go through each one of them on the ground to get familiar. You might not be used to all of these features, so having them be easily accessible is a must. Make sure you assign your flaps and gear to easy to reach switches and dials on your transmitter. If you still want to go for a brand new shiny P-51 Mustang decked out in silver aluminum, try getting one with the inbuilt stabilization that we were talking about earlier. You could go with something that has split flaps, a thousand different functions and LED lights, but these are all things that could distract you from simply flying the airplane. This is a plane that's angled towards beginners. Try starting out with something like a ParkZone Trojan. There are hundreds of different warbirds out there to choose from. Having said that, here's some advice to get you to take the controls in confidence. So it's clear that these days you shouldn't be too worried about the quirks of an RC warbird. If you flew one of their SAFE equipped Mustangs, you could have it set bank limits and an altitude hold which makes it extremely difficult to crash. SAFE technology, for instance, is a piece of kit that helps you fly E-Flite models like a pro. Thankfully, what with today's RC industry, companies like Horizon Hobby and FMS have pioneered some incredible models that are a dream to fly.
Keep reading if you like the sound of this! It's something to bear in mind: you're going to have to learn to fly these things as if they were the big versions. Just like the real thing, this makes landing an art that is difficult to master. Take a Hanger 9 Hellcat for instance - its landing gear is pretty darn narrow. Warbirds can be heavy, fast and difficult to handle on the ground as well as the air. First, though, let's talk about what makes these planes so different. Even when you get to be a little more experienced, warbirds can be intimidating, so here are some tips to overcome that.
So how on earth do you fly them? For me, when I started, I wanted nothing but to fly these scale models of historic combat aircraft but warbirds are heavy, they're technical to fly right and they come with a hefty price tag.
Warbirds - this is a branch of the RC family tree that is particularly unfriendly to beginners.
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