| Model aircraft piloting can be an extremely intriguing | | | | huge amounts to hire expensive flight instructors. You |
| hobby. The entire experience of seeing your helicopter | | | | can crash your helicopter or model aircraft as many |
| or RC plane take flight is captivating. Even if you are | | | | times as you want, without worrying about the money |
| not a trained pilot, you can have a lot of fun seeing | | | | to get it fixed. Your answer to an easy and smooth |
| someone else fly an RC aircraft. Everything is so | | | | model aircraft flying lessons comes on a CD Rom as |
| different and special that often at times you may think | | | | RC flight simulators. |
| of learning to fly in order to have a memorable | | | | These simulators are nothing new and have been |
| experience on your own! | | | | available in the market since the 1980s. However, at |
| Usually people spend thousands of dollars buying their | | | | that time the simulators were not realistic and they |
| first helicopter or aircraft along with fuel, radio, batteries, | | | | were so expensive that it would have been cheaper |
| flight box, engines, glow plug, starters, gyros and many | | | | to crash your model a hundred times. With time, things |
| more things. But this is not where the expenses end. | | | | changed due to technology and competition. The flight |
| When the lessons start, new RC aircraft pilots realize | | | | simulators available today are extraordinary. There are |
| that flying is not so easy and they hire an expensive | | | | some versions with a connector cable, allowing you to |
| instructor, which means only few hours of lessons at a | | | | plug in your favorite RC controller, while some come |
| very high cost. However, they learn everything possible | | | | with a replica of a real radio controller in form of a |
| and in no time become 'half' a pilot. Eventually the time | | | | joystick. Good quality, higher versions offer both |
| of lessons run out and they are left on their own. But | | | | options. |
| for them it is not difficult as they consider themselves | | | | The physics engine that is incorporated in these |
| an 'almost' trained pilot. | | | | simulators can be considered the best of modern |
| On their next flight they take the aircraft out, | | | | technology programming. In a nutshell, your flight |
| attempting the first solo flight, but suddenly they are not | | | | simulator can give you almost the same experience |
| able to gain ground, lose control and crash. Again a | | | | that would happen on the real airfield with 99% |
| huge amount is spent on fixing the aircraft and with | | | | accuracy. Modern simulators are not very expensive |
| few more months of training, dozen crashes and | | | | and some good and branded simulators are available |
| thousands of dollars and they finally learn how to fly. | | | | at 300 dollars. With some research you can also get |
| Sadly, all this used to happen before. | | | | your hands at free simulators, offering features of their |
| Today, there is no need to go through so much pain. | | | | rival expensive counterparts. |
| You can learn how to fly an aircraft without spending | | | | |