New Airplane

You have a new airplane, congratulations, this is the moment, being a 3 hour or a 6 months in the garage building model, it's now ready for is first flight. It's always an exciting moment and a perfect occasion to make those basic and stupid mistakes, if this words help to avoid even only one of that "errors" than it worth the time spent writing this words.

- Does the model look ok in all aspects?
- Is the C.G in correct position?
- Did you check at least 3 times for receiver battery?
- Are ALL movements working?
- In the correct direction and travel?
- In first flight the best is to use factory recommended travels, you can adjust them for you later.
- Is the engine proper "run in" and reliable enough for the first flight, its not nice a "dead stick" in the first flight.
- Test radio range, at least walk away 20 meter from the plane with your antenna closed, its a quick test.
- Check again for sensitive areas, like hinges, wheels, engine support and others.
- Use a full tank for first fly.
- Check wind direction and select a low wind day for first flight.
- Walk in the ground with the model and do one or two fast runs to see how it goes.
- Don't get airborne to early, let the model achieve a considerable (more than necessary) speed before.
- Use our flight to correct trim your airplane and analyse how it handles.
- After the first flight check again those sensitive areas and screws to ensure everything is ok.

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