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Flying a RC plane often may put you on hassle when it comes to choose the right toy plane. You are now quite about to buy a RC plane but still you are floating on the choices, as variety of planes are before you at the same moments. Okay, this is natural but if you are quite new enthusiasts then a lot of conveniences with these toys should be checked before to meet you with the best option. Flying a Cessna 182 is a quite easier for the beginner as it comes with simpler functions and in a just ready to fly state.

Assembling a RC plane can be a tedious work if you are a beginner. So, you just need such an option which enable to jump on the fly right out from the box. Though still you have to work some actions like charging the battery and put it into the toy cabinet and switch on the remote control start button. Cessna 182 comes completely in a pre-assembled state and makes your way easier anytime to fly.

Certainly there are some quite cozy features that make this RC plane best for your plunge. RC Cessna can perform for a smoother speed of up to 50 m/h which can certainly be a exhilarating factor for the beginners. It has a strong Styron-foam body which gives this plane a quite sturdy shape and durability. The compact size and eye-catching design makes it best choice for you and help you handle the play just in a funny way. This toy plane has a 480 motor engine that is backed by a power battery of 7.2V. You can easily fly this plane for a continuous period of 13-15 minutes with a full-charged battery without any interruption in the game. The body size is perfect at any playfield and with having a wingspan of 38.5" and length of 29" it no doubt gives you a better and much stable flying experience. The power full remote control adds more freedom at flying, as you can easily get your plane up to a height of 2500 ft.

May be you have a fixed budget but once you have decided for a RC plane paying 179 dollar would not be a much expense for you. Though this an approximate price for this plane and you can find even somewhat differed prices with retailers, you need to first visit different stores online to get the best price. Make sure putting a little much time on comparing prices can definitely help you get the best deal

By: Amrendra Kr. Singh

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Copyright (c) 2008 Dan Pimentel

A good friend returned from EAA's 2007 Airventure Oshkosh Airshow holding delivery position #426 on a new Cessna Model 162 Skycatcher. I'd been trying to track down a C162 buyer for a while, so this is great timing as I want to find out what is drawing current, licensed private pilots to the Skycatcher. What I found did not really surprise me.

At 78.5 years young, Fresno pilot John Pugliese has amassed 7,000 hours in a pilot career that has included ownership of a Fairchild PT-23, a Cessna 120 and his current bird, a 1952 Cessna 170. After a heart attack in the early '90s, Pugliese must now undergo additional scrutiny each time he is re-issued a third-class medical card. And while he has good health today to flies with an FAA medical card, he knows that may not be the case forever. "I'm hoping that Cessna can deliver my Skycatcher before the day comes when the medical card cannot be re-issued."

I'm certain Pugliese is not the only "senior" private pilot who is looking at Light Sport aircraft as a sort of "workaround" to current FAA medical rules. And as a refresher, let me pass along what the FAA says about the subject of Sport Pilot medicals.

Sport Pilot licensing rules require either a third-class FAA medical certificate or a current and valid U.S. driver's license as evidence of medical eligibility (provided the individual's most recent application for an FAA medical certificate was not denied, revoked, suspended or withdrawn). So as long as a pilot can move into an LSA before he/she is denied, all is well and good. However, once FAA takes that card away, those denied pilots cannot use a driver's license in lieu of the medical card.

As an experienced aviator, Pugliese picked the Skycatcher for a number of reasons. "The main thing was the hydraulic brakes" he said. "I'm an old taildragger driver from way back, and sometimes you have to almost lock up one wheel to keep things straight. And nothing against Rotax, but I like that Cessna is putting Continentals in the Skycatcher, since it will be easy to find service coast-to-coast on that engine. I also like that I will be able to get parts through an established Cessna dealer network. And at just over five feet tall, I'm happy the Skycatcher's rudder pedals are adjustable. The plane fits me fine, and is really a great looking airplane!"

As a successful businessman, Pugliese knows that the $109,000 base price will climb before delivery day. A clause in the Cessna contract allows for cost of living increases and with California sales tax that he says is a staggering nine percent, John expects the Skycatcher to come in at around $140,000 without wheel pants or a ballistic chute. He expects that by the time Cessna delivers the 162, the Garmin G300 panel will change for the better, as avionics always do.

Bottom line: John Pugliese is one of those older pilots we all love...nice as can be, true to his fellow pilots, and always willing to take a young kid flying to spark their internal fires. When he gets the Skycatcher, it'll make a perfect platform to serve his mission profile, which is to poke holes in the sky while converting fossilized dinosaurs into altitude to chase down the elusive airport hamburger.

By: Dan Pimentel

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Should You Do Any Spin Training? read this story of mine and you decide for yourself:

Back in 1992, after I had been instructing for a few years, I was in the local FBO's office where I worked. I was waiting for one of my students to come back from a solo flight. When my student came in, he looked as though he had just seen a ghost. He was shaking and sweating I asked him what happened. The answer that I got was one that most flight instructors would not want to hear: "I was practicing stalls in the practice area, and all of a sudden I was upside down, and then just spinning toward the ground I didn't know what to do, but I heard your voice tell me to pull the power back and just let go of the control column, and the plane will stabilize."

If you know anything about small Cessnas, they tend to have a forward CG and will recover if you just let go of the controls for a second-that is, if you are not in a fully developed spin. So that is what the student did. Even more upsetting was when he stated the fact that, once the plane stopped spinning and the nose started to come up, the altimeter was reading about 1,800-1,900 feet.

If you fly in the Phoenix area, you know that the ground elevation is approximately 1,500 feet MSL. So my student recovered about 300 to 400 feet about the ground. This is far below normal traffic patterns. Would you like this to happen to you? Because it can happen to you. Or would you rather have an instructor go over spin entries and recoveries with you?

I was taking aerobatic flight lessons at the time and had practiced plenty of 3- to 4-turn spins, so I got the parachutes on, and up we went. I started demonstrating spins and spin entries, and he just kept saying, "Nope, that is not what happened." It finally dawned on me what had happened, and I asked him. Sure enough, I had hit the nail on the head.

The spin my student got himself into was one of the worst cases you could imagine. He was practicing power-off stalls, so the normal recovery procedure is to lower the nose, add full power, and start retracting flaps ten degrees at a time.

Little did my student know that the plane had started to enter the spin when he added full power. The result was a torque roll that placed the plane upside down at first, then continued to spin with the help of the full-power setting. I didn't think that a 152 was capable of that, but sure enough, it was. So he pulled the power and let go of it, recovering about 400 feet above the ground.

I think every pilot out there should do some type of spin training. Now that I don't have an aerobatic airplane, I do a flight that shows students how to enter and recover from the spin. This is not a full spin lesson, but it shows the student what to expect. If the student does get himself in trouble, I will let them go as long as I can.

When I had a Cessna 152 Aerobat, I would do spins and basic aerobatics with every student who wouldn't put the plane over weight. Most students would be a little scared, but after the first of two flights, they couldn't wait to do the second one.

If you can get up and do this before you solo, I suggest not doing it in an extra 300. Yes, it will be a fun time, but you won't get the feel of the plane you are normally flying. If you can't do it in an Aerobat, try to get in a Citabria or Super Decathlon. Use a plane that will be a little sluggish to simulate the plane you are training in.

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