SCRC Local Help Sources

The SCRC members are very willing to help people new to the hobby. Help includes abundant advice on planes, radios, and engines. Building and flying help is also readily available to aid in getting their model airplanes built and flying. The following information is provided to aid the newcomer to the hobby but all modelers will find it helpful.  Click here to see how a 13 year old obtained help.

Choosing and Building Radio Control Model Airplanes

• The hobby has been changing rapidly over the past several years.  Recommendations made as recently as a year ago may well be out of date today.  To meet this continually changing environment, a set of links to web sites that discuss the process of getting into the R/C hobby are given here.  Note that many of these sites are sponsored by R/C manfactureres that feature their products.
  
  • http://www.easyrc.com/
  •    http://www.easyrc.com/airplanes/index.html
  • http://www.rc-airplane-world.com/
  •    http://www.rc-airplane-world.com/rc-airplanes.html
  • http://www.rcplanetalk.com/getting-started-in-rc-planes.html
  •    http://www.rcplanetalk.com/beginner-rc-planes.html
  • https://www.quicktechhobby.com/articles/getting_started_in_rc_flying_air.htm

In addition to these web sites, many more can be found by doing an internet search for "getting started in rc".

Flying Your Radio Control Model Airplane

• When you're ready to fly, call one of the club instructors. They will help you to get started and try to prevent you from destroying that new aircraft you worked so hard to build. If you have the right kind of radio the instructor may even have a trainer cord. The cord allows two radios to be tied to together as main and trainer. The instructor has a switch which when activated allows the trainer to control the airplane. If you get into trouble the instructor releases the switch and control of the plane returns to the instructor. Then hopefully, the instructor saves the aircraft, takes it up to a safe altitude and gives control of the aircraft back to you, the student. This is a great way to learn as it gives you more time to recover control than when passing one radio back and forth. Best of all, it drastically reduces the chance of crashing the new plane. The following list identifies some of the club instructors. Feel free to call one or more of them. Find out when they'll be at the field and let them help you when you arrive. You can also go to the field and ask any member there for help.

• Click here for a comprehensive set of Preflight checks.

Flying Help

• The following list identifies some of the club instructors. Feel free to call one or more of them. Find out when they'll be at the field and let them help you when you arrive. You can also go to the field and ask any member there for help.

  INSTRUCTORS:

  • Woody Struble 238-8118
  • Sam Stitzer 364-9530
  • George Gurney 238-9448
  • Hugh Zinsmeister 1-717-667-2406
  • Rich Moore 231-8283
  • Henry Loewen 238-1817
  • Al Niessner 234-6931

Source of Model Aircraft Supplies

• See the list of manufacturers and suppliers by clicking here.

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Last Updated 12/23/1999