slipshift
New Member
Hi all, I've been lurking for a while so I thought I needed to introduce myself. My interest in R/C flying goes back to my high school days in the 60's but it was prohibitively expensive. Now I'm 71 y/o and I better start before my eyesight gets too bad. When surfing the web I ran across the FlySky TX (yeah, I know) that was inexpensive. Made a couple of Dollar Tree foam trainers and was ready to go. I was lucky enough to find an instructor with 20 years flying experience and we went out with a buddy box. The planes flew great and I got a real sense of euphoria, I can see how this can become addicting, It also seemed much easier than the simulator. After flying a few circuits I ran into a strange problem, the plane went into a vertical nose dive and my instructor had to pull it out. The next flight it went into a dive as soon as he turned the controls over to me. There wasn't much wind but I thought there might be some higher up. Next outing was the same thing, vertical nose dive immediately after I took control. Turned out to be a faulty buddy box. The plane flies straight and level by itself so I'm wondering why it would take a dive every time if I had no control as in hands off the box.
Jim
Jim