9. DON’T GET REVERSED

Here’s a typical traffic pattern. Always take off and land going into the wind.

A common trouble spot, especially in the beginning is keeping your right and left straight in your head. When you are flying away from yourself and the tail of the airplane is pointing toward you, your right is your model’s right. It always is, but in your view of your airplane when you move the stick to the right, your model will bank and turn to the right. But, when the airplane is heading toward you, the model’s response to your right stick movement, will seem reversed and the wingtip to the left will drop. A good tip to avoid reversal when the model is fling toward you, is to imagine you are propping up the lower wingtip with your stick to level the wings.

Control reversal is trick to learn to correct for. Use the control stick to prop up the low wingtip.