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LEARN TO FLY RC PLANES: Sport Cub S beginner's guide
Hi there RC girl here. So today my video is about how to get into RC flight
So if you've seen my channel before, you know that there's cars everywhere
I've spent a lot of my time on the ground, jumping into the air is a little bit scary. Where do you start?
I really didn't know where to start in getting into flight
So horizon hobby sent me some cool stuff to try out for a beginner
I don't have a ton of experience in the air
So I have a little mini drone and I've spent a little time flying around a foamy plane. So I'm pretty beginner level
It's a fine-tuned fly super easy supposedly so it can get you into planes really quickly and easily. So let's test it out
I'll show you all the gear that I have and hopefully you too can take to the skies
So, where do you start I would suggest getting a simulator you can get one for your iPad or tablet
That's super cheap and these simulators translate really well to out in the field
So once you get a good handle of flying taking off landing the plane in a simulator
You're gonna set yourself up really nicely for your first flight another thing
I suggest is that I watched the beginner series on flight test YouTube
I'll put a link to their channels
So their beginner series was sponsored by horizon hobby and it really breaks down every step from the very very beginning
To selecting your first plane. What all the channels do
What about lipo's everything about different types of batteries since they've already done the series on getting into flight?
This is gonna be more about my journey and what it takes to get a V dinner person
Off the ground and into the air
they also have a video about this sport cup s which I'll talk about in a second and one box it and
It's a great great beginner plane. It's a four channel plane planes nowadays have a lot of cool technology
So this has the safe technology where it has beginner intermediate and advanced mode on the plane
You could switch it between the three and it also has a panic button
so in the beginner mode
It's gonna have a gyro that self
Stabilizes the plane the intermediate kind of cuts down the gyro a bit and the advanced has no gyro
so you can work your way up from the beginner which basically
supposedly flies itself
This comes in the bind and fly so you can bind it to a nicer radio or it comes in the ready to fly version
So I have the binding fly and horizon sent me the DX six
Radio and this thing has way more controls and you're gonna need but if you're thinking about staying and growing in the hobby
You're gonna want to have something that you can have one really nice radio that you can use in program all your planes in
And really get to know it horizon also sent me the blade 120. Heli
This is a little bit more in the realm of drone flight
I had a blade 120 a long time ago before they had the gyro technology in it
It was really hard to fly. So supposedly with the safe technology. These are a lot more stable and easier to fly
So I'll have to make a video on in the future. So stay tuned for that
So as I mentioned, I don't have a ton of experience in flight
but this was the first plane that I ever flew and
It is a foamy build yourself. If you can see it's like coming apart. I crashed it a bunch of times
So this is from flight test. This is called the ft flyer and you basically spend one or two dollars in foam board and
Popsicle sticks and hot glue and some tape and you can build it yourself
I definitely crashed it like maybe 20 or 30 times before it was unflyable and you can just basically take it back to your house
tape it back up use some more hot glue and
Learn it again in crash this many times as you want and you're not going to feel bad
Because you didn't spend that much money on it
So if you just want to get into a hobby quickly and don't want to build something yourself
This is gonna be a great great option
So horizon sent me this really cool little charger that you can plug in for different one-cell lipos in it
And you can also take it out in the field because it has its own internal
Battery so you can charge while you're out flying your plane will unbox this in a second
Alright, so let's go over the sport cub s from Horizon Hobby
I'll share a little bit about what I've learned actually did take this up in the air once because I wanted to
Give it a test flight to make sure I actually could
fly the plane and
Spoiler alert, it was pretty simple to fly having very little experience
So we have our instructions packet and maybe with RC cars you can toss this aside
But with RC planes, this is going to have all the instructions about how to program your radio, which is super important
Each plane is very very different. So definitely read this. I read it cover-to-cover the first night. I got this plane
Alrighty
So here we go. It's pretty small. It might not look like much and actually the box
I feel like it has more styrofoam in it than that plane does
but
It's freaking cute
So as I mentioned before this is a 4-channel plane, and it has four different controls on the plane
So the first one is your throttle, which is your propeller your motor
The next one is your ailerons, and this is going to control kind of your side to side when you're turning and banking
The next one is your elevator. So that's gonna be your up and down when you're giving lift to the plane and
Changing your elevation and then the last one is your rudder
This is one of the more advanced controls so I didn't play around too much with it
I know in the beginner mode that it mixes the rudder and the elevator for you this plane
You can get replaceable parts for it, which is great
There's a couple different wing types that you're gonna find in RC planes. The high ring is gonna be one of the more
stabilizing intro-level planes
so another thing is that the wing is
dihedral, which means that it is kind of a v-shaped which is going to be very
Stabilizing and then your battery goes down here
It connects with a little piece of velcro as you get more advanced
You can also add floats to this and fly this on the water
I wouldn't recommend doing that your first flight but definitely compatible and it's also fpv compatible as well
So you can fly it with those goggly things
This is the charger that it comes with a little tiny charger USB
Plug it into a wall charger or your computer. It also comes with the 1s lipo and it will show you that now
And since the plane is a little fragile this also serves as a little carry case
So I use this when I take it out in the fields and it carries your plane all our supplies
These are 1s lipos and if you come from the RC car world you're gonna think that these are freaking tiny because they are
So, this is a 45
c1s lipo
plugs directly into the bottom of the plane
You're going to want to make sure that you balance it as well
So you can find the balance point in the plane and it's very important that your plane is balanced when you're flying it
There's a little charger doohickey
plug these in
So I got eneloop D batteries and they're rechargeable and puts in the back and then you can take this out into the field
so you have a constant supply of
Batteries before we put in our battery. You're gonna want to make sure that it's bound to the radio
There's no really on and off switch. It's once you connect the battery
The plane is on so you want to make sure that your radio is turned on and the plane is bound
Let's take a look at the radio
All right the dxx
Spectrum this is one of the nicer end radios, which is super cool, and you learned a lot about it so far
It's not super hard to program, but you're just gonna have to spend some time with it
And it's going to be a little bit of a learning curve
So I spent a lot of time reading this and googling what the heck everything meant, all right here we got it the DX six
What the heck do all these things do
Way different from RC car. You'll start to learn about each of these controls and what they do on the plane
So the six means that it can control up to six channels, which is six different functions on your plane
we only have four so we're only going to be using for the features here and
We can program one of them to be the panic button
Which I definitely want to make sure that I have
You can also program a switch to be a throttle kill. So when you're messing around hanging around
transporting it and you have your plane on you can make sure that if you
Accidentally hit the throttle that it's not going to power up another cool feature that you want to make sure you program in
It also talks to you
You got to have the nerd lanyard as well. You want to at least look like you know what you're doing out there
so I'm not gonna go into a ton of details about setting up the DX six with the sport cup s I'll
Post a link to horizon hobbies video about binding this and setting it up specifically for this plane
So it took a little while but once you get it, you can select your model
Flight mode one. Okay, so we're going to connect the battery to the plane
And when you set the plane down on a flat surface it should bind and stabilize itself
So basically they're safe technology
Has it self-correcting gyro?
So when you're in the air, it's gonna want to self stabilize and it's gonna be really easy to fly as a beginner
So a few things you're gonna want to be aware of when going out for your first flight is selecting a location. That is
Flight friendly so a big park a big field
somewhere where there's not a ton of trees not a ton of power lines and also pick a really calm day because any wind with
A small light plane is gonna blow it all over the place
It doesn't have a super powerful motor, which is great for learning but also is not going to be able to
Fight the wind very well
So pick a calm day usually mornings here are really good and then don't do it where there's around a ton of people
Where if it does crash you're not gonna fly into a ton of people or a crowd? I think we're ready to go
Got our batteries got our remote programs. We've got our plane set up pack it up and let's do our first flight
Alright I'm out in the field and I'm at sky park which is an old airport and now it's turned into a open space
So this is a great area to do my first flight
No, one around nice soft landing. If I do end up crashing the plane. No one really around
The only thing is that it's freakin windy. So I've been here for about 15 minutes waiting for everyone to die
Another thing. I did want to mention about the DX 6. It has buddy Box capabilities
So if you have a friend that is an experienced flyer
you can hook this up to their spectrum D s6 or any other spectrum models it that has the buddy box capabilities and they can
Switch and take over controls. If you have a panic situation where we're gonna - so they can take over for you
Well don't have a buddy right now that has better flying skills of me
So I'm just gonna take it out for the first flight
And what I want to do is take off into the wind before I take off
I'm also gonna want to check all my channels. So make sure that everything's functioning we got rudder
elevators working we got our ailerons working and then let's test our
Alright, everything seems to be functioning. Just gotta wait for the wind to die
Gotta turn off my throttle kill
So when you go around and you're starting to go with the wind
I noticed that it kind of puts you on one of those people movers when you're at the airport
It's going to kick you around because you're going with the wind
So you're gonna go a lot faster than you would think so I cut down the throttle a little bit
Then I want to bring it around again
And then you're gonna need to settle up when you're going into the wind it kind of wants to fly up a little bit
now this thing
Yeah, it's pretty good you crash it yet
Okay, let's see if I can take it around for my first landing
And again with your landing you're gonna want to fly into the wind or land into the wind
Around
People mover bottle it down a little bit bring it around again
Turning down this bottle a little bit
Bring it down slowly
Basically hovering at this point. There we go
So
Pretty good. My first bite well technically first flight, but I took it around for a practice flight earlier and I
Seriously do not have that much experience. I did have some time on the flight simulator
So it a pretty good grasp of the controls with your throttle and your turning and baking
Overall pretty good plane
Take it around again so bottle up
All right, so I'm gonna try and do a loop in the other direction this time flips, I'm getting a little bit over my head
Doing a reverse loop clockwise now bring it around
So yeah this thing pretty much flies itself
Bottle up a little bit
It's bringing in front of landing
Hi
What's cars driving
I just go a little bit further out now. It's a lot more time to land more space
And bottle down
Basically gliding at this point
a second successful landing
That's pretty much it I would say that this is a great trainer plane lots of stabilization
I haven't ventured into the intermediate and advanced modes yet
Felt like I still need a little bit more experience and beginner mode before I switch into the intermediate and advanced modes
But overall super easy to fly
I never thought I would be flying RC planes
And I was able to I had a lot of fun learning how to fly I want to thank horizon hobby for sending me this
trainer plane and all the stuff to get started super easy to get started in RC flight if I can do it, so
Can you thank you for tuning in? Hopefully you guys like this kind of video
So make sure to LIKE and subscribe for more hoping to bring you guys more stuff in the future. I see you later
It was so funny, so I was finishing up this video and
Cleanest me Superbowl
He's a lot better than me but you know
I'll start somewhere
All right, so my plane is dying
I'm gonna bring it in
There's no wind right now, so I'm just gonna land it here
Actually
Wow, what do I do?
Yeah disaster averted
