You guys at Flite Test are some of the best things about this hobby! Great job with these beginner videos, keep up the great work!

"Nose heavy plane flies poorly and tail heavy plane flies once" -RcLifeOn

Been flying for a year. Yes I'm still an ultra newbie. Your vids are soooo useful to all of us just beginning, and us that have been crashing for a while ;)

I have this exact plane, it flies so easy and wonderful. Horizon Hobbies and E-flite are one of the best RC companies and publishers ever. Awesome part-support, service and products, most of my planes and heli's are from them. The P51-D, the Blade mCPx, the Supercub LP etc.....all great products. Never stop, brothers.

Love these videos, even 6 years later!

This is actually one of the most useful videos I've seen for beginners learning how to fly. A great series as a whole...

You guys make these you tube clips worth watching great instructions and explaining on all the importance of begainning a flight thats great guys keep up with the great work and I really enjoy watching your tutorials

A fantastic, informative and fun introduction to RC flying. I'm really looking forward to watching the others in this series.

So two days ago I bought an RC helicopter from a local radio shack out of an impulse buy while messing with it I was watching videos on others which led me to your guys's channel and I wanted to let you all know that your videos are awesome! Really have me interested in R/C flying hobby and I am really looking forward to advancing. I really want to do FPV flying! Anyway I just wanted to let you all know how much of an awesome job you all do and you just made a huge fan with in two days out of an impulse buyer, haha and hopefully soon an FPV flyer like yourselves. Again thank you all for your videos, keep it up!

These are the best training videos ever made, l gave away all my gas planes 20+ years ago when l moved but want to get back into the Hobby without all the mess and expense. This is a new beginning for me and you guys are funny as ever, great group of people to be around.

This has been such a valuable series to me! Very well done and great topics. This video helped me tremendously, as I had been having all kinds of problems learning to fly. Your practice exercises were exactly what I needed, I've gone through 4 1C batteries just doing the take off and landing practice. I'm now up to making some turns and not smashing my plane into a million pieces! Really happy with my incremental progress! Thanks guys!!

This was the BEST video for getting me into the air safely and making multiple take offs and landing. No crashes, no issues, just fun! THANK YOU GUYS!

Nice beginner series! I'm not a beginner any more but do enjoy these vids. I also like how Josh holds his thumb on the throttle as a safety meassure. I do that as well, all the time when a battery is connected but I do not want to fly. That is a really good habit to have.

Love the Beginner Series. Finally, someone is showing us from the beginning. I don't mind the sunglasses. It's not demeaning but necessary for good eye health.

LABELING!!! My last super cub blew away this past spring, and I'm pretty sure I would still have it had I labelled it. So simple, yet so crucial... Thanks guys!

thanks guys that was great, I've always wonted to fly model aircraft since I was a kid, now im 74 years old so im going to give it a go, with your help, thanks again

hey guys this series is amazing! keep em coming! :)

Great series. Please place mentioned links "below", below. Still looking for the glide slope one!!! Really enjoy your vids. Keep up the great work!

Excellent CG explanation!! The planes pivot point, thank you! Love the video of the sticks!!

Thanks guys I really appreciate the videos. I've flown helis but you really have great starter tips to cross over

This helped ALOT with my C17 especially when landing I had trouble few rounds but did it the third! It’s just on hard surfaces the wheels get damaged but it works perfectly 10/10 (note:I fixed the wheels to a type that won’t get damaged on landing)

Also, I really appreciate the video series for helping me get back in the air!

thanks guys. i am new to rc flying and your videos have helped me alot

Just got a couple minutes of flying in today and I was scared to launch by hand it was surprisingly easy. thank you for getting me into the hobby I plan to make a 2 channel Catalina and someday hope to come down to flite fest atleast once. ~mike

I flew my first EDF in windy weather and miracoulously managed to not crash, i learnt alot from watching you guys :)

Would it be a good idea to put a air tag inside your plane to find it when you loose it?

I started out a couple years ago with a guy that was way farther into this hobby than I was. I ended up spending a bunch of money and the fun went out. I just got back into it and have splurged on a spektrum dx6. I bought two radian gliders a big one and a small one. I'm looking forward to some nice slow flights and lots of fun. Maybe one day a sweet Stryker but slow for now. Great videos

These videos are extremely helpful. I dont have my own plane yet but ill be getting one soon. I have learned alot from these videos.

awesome video thanks for the much needed info, you guys are the best :)

Josh & Josh ; Really good Video on Take Offs & Landings ! Thanks for the Video

YEAH! 100k Congrats guys, you deserve it!

furthermore, you are a real dude and a good teacher and pilot....impressive.

U Speak on my level I UNDERSTAND if I can learn from your video's U have accomplished something every teacher I ever have had lost sleep over or should have Thanks Charlie

I just yesterday crashed a cessna 182. I was flying then the wings just popped off. I saw a video that they did that but i bought it anyways thinking meh what are the chances. Next thing you know its crashing down with no wings to solid cement.

Nice boys. I have Josh`s namesake ready to roll once the wind die`s down. Thanks for the tips.

Hey, guys your really awesome and i was wondering if you could do a review of the hubsan x4 v2 and maybe even an FPV conversion for that.

Im real into this,lve fell in love the RCs

Thank you Sharing this knowledge I am a beginner just got the super cub S so I am learning through your videos, I will be watching for more

I learned to fly the cub years ago.to get this lovely plan to take off from grass all I did was put slightly bigger wheels on it and adjust the cg .

I love this series and love this channel if i had this when i got into the hobby i wouldn't have killed half my planes.I was wondering though if in the future say after you finished with beginner planes you might do a Quad/tricopter series like this i have wanted to get started flying quads for a bit now and it's a little confusing the motors,props weights even flight patterns as different copters fly different ways. it would be awesome if you would do a series just like this for beginner copter enthusiasts.

Looove this series as I am determining what beginner plane I want I've never flown probably gonna get the carbon cub S or a EDF f16 BNF with a spektrum dx8 I've never flown but did race and tinker with RC cars 15yrs ago or so but new to planes but I'm gonna go ahead and buy a good transmitter I can get comfortable with and grow into like the dx8 and be able to bind it to future planes

excellent job guys I got into this hobby over 55 years ago and nobody there by my side telling me what to do it was fly it or crash it. Most was the last at the beginning. Have many years of. Try building a balsa kit the hobby becomes even better. Nothing better to clear the mind. Have fun

Clear, helpful, repetition helps drill it in my thick head. Thank you.

My first plane had a bad life... I tried a loop on my first flight RIP

I don't know if it's just a coincidence or that great minds think alike, but I sent in a suggestion last week hoping you would include split screen elements in a video. I got to say, this turned out brilliantly, even better than I imagined. Now I'd love to see one on aerobatics as I mentioned. Kudos!

could you please test the hype dg 1001 because it is my first plane and im flying with it one year now so i want to know your opinion :D

You guys inspired me even in corona time I got myself horizon hobbies rtf S+ carbon cub and I’m really happy

I definitively like this beginner series. I'm searching for a new hobby. Gaming and sitting at a PC makes me dull. This series is perfect for me. Even though I don't know yet if I like to build and fly RC-planes or quadcopters, some categories (as R/C) are similar. I think I'll watch the whole series and begin to build a foam-model with my son over the winter. I'm from germany and it's sad that I can't find such a detailed guide in german. But to understand you is no problem once one understands the R/C - specific words (german words in brackets): - aileron (Quer-Ruder) - elevator (Höhen-Ruder) - rudder (Seiten-Ruder) - BEC etc

Thank you so much. All the information you provided was information I needed to know. This is my first year of RC 😅

Awesome advice. 70% of what you're talking about I had NO IDEA. will next time. Not having that idea cost me m first plane ... simply flying away ... So now I taxi down the hall at home and back towards me. Reverse navigation is not easy if you've never even though about it. This series is a must for any noobs like me ... before we kill off planes. That's just no fun at all.

You guys kick ass; I've learned to fly so much faster by not making a lot of noob mistakes in the beginning.

por favor! se que es mucho pedir, pero podrian poner la traduccion al español debajo en cada video!!! me seria de mucha ayuda!!!! mil gracias!!! hace mucho los veo!!!! un abrazo gigante desde argentina!!!!!!

just getting into flying this video is priceless guys make great content now I got a lot of catching up to do on learning j want to get the hubu sts 70mm with safe any ideas if I should get something else

Perfect preparation Bro, good job

Thanks a lot for ALL your videos! And thanks again, they are extremely helpfull to me as a beginner rc airplane pilot. Keep up the good works, as the saying goes! Greetings from Antwerp, Belgium

Will you guys go into how to connect remotes and so on. Not just what you do to connect most receivers to remotes but go into detail

Flitetest, please make a video on how to pull apart XT-60 connectors, please, I bough some from Hobbyking and they just fuse together when I connect them.

Very informative, question: how do you calculate the "CG" ?

Now that was a great video, well done you guys! What landing gear featured scratch build model would you recommend as a 1st time trainer?

Carbon cub. What's your thoughts on a 3 bladed prop. And which prop would you recommend???

Very nice video series so far. Do you guys have a video series for FPV ?

My gamma 370 tx doesnt talk to the planes stock same brand rx. Tx batteries are fine, The bind is complete according to led status but nothing is happening. Do you reckon the lipo is dead?

my fav...🤘part is flying but you fly in the end👀anyway some tips i have learn today thanku bro...😀

it shows that you're used to 4 channel planes.. watching your left thumb attempt to work the rudder.. lol. Great video. You guys rock! now after watching a few more, I'll go back to building my baby blender...

+Julian Mackay As it's Your first plane, I'd suggest You start with FT Flyer. It'd lasts longer before You need serious repairs to it, so You learn more flying. There is a build video for it, they show some on connecting stuff. And I think they have a separate episode on electronics too.

a question please, if your transmitter batteries get weak will your range decrease a little at a time as they get weaker or will the transmitter keep working to a certain point and then cut out all at once ?

Great episode!

You guys make me laugh! Thanks for a another great vid :)

I like the way you said "We have to do a range test" in almost the same way as you would when your mom told you to tidy your room.

This is a great video, and novices should take note it could save them time and money.

As an addition to my previous post. Maybe it's a nice idea to have a video about "on the field safety, around and on the airstrip" where things such as thumb on throttle are adressed?

I am new to rc flying. I understand that you need to constantly adjust the aileron and rudder controls as the plane takes off to maintain stability.

Hi I know I'm 5 years late but from were do you get the airplane 'controller'?

I was wondering if you guys could do a review and test of the hobby zone glasair sportsman. I am very enthusiastic about this plane, and I would enjoy a quality review from you! Thanks!

thanks for the training guys

when your range testing and have a friend to help, its better to get one walk out 30 paces with the plane hold it up and spin around slowly, its quicker and your friend can also tell you if it fails or not

the first time I flew a RC plane was when I was 7-8ish, it was a glow and I was buddy boxed up... did a few turns that was it. then I got a 3 channel nine eagle sky runner and just throw it... flew well considering the weather... although all my landings were cashes in a sense...

Great video! Thanks

Will you guys eventually do a beginners video about FPV? I know you did one about general equipment and frequencies but I built the batbone and I'm gonna use it for FPV but I don't know what tx/rx you guys use for your tricopters. All the tx I've seen have been pretty large. If it matters I wanna try and use 5.8 GHz.

Oh god I was waitting for my fix!

I love you guys!!!!! :p

Flite Test, Could you please make s video about the best equipment for scratch building. i know what i need as far as motor, servos, esc, reciver, etc. I just dont know which one to buy since there is like a thousand different ones for everything. Thanks for the help.

Thanks. Very useful.

What mode transmitter do you use?

Josh + Josh = awesome !

SO a non-dihedral winged plane. You need to give it a little elevator to get off the ground ?

Great vid guys. thanks

i love this hobby!/your vids!!!

LOL 3:58 "who said that, King Solomon?"

Josh B, it almost sounds like your talking about para motors here. lol :) I know it's old, but I am digging in a little to find out about planes. Flying quads now.

I just bought the big idol from hobbyking. im new to this and like your vids. will try and send pics of build

thanks for the tips im gonna try them i tryd to fly but my plane always was going to much forward and crashes on the nose of the plane

Hello! I have a Confusion , I have started making plane but I am confused on how do we know the correct wingspan length to use? .. Please help me Ur video on battery were very helpful thanku

Thanks. Great info. !

Hi is there an RC flight simulator that works on a Macintosh?

GREAT idea to put my name on it!!! Thank you!

good video guys, helps a lot. Hell I'd say 90% of RC flight is understanding the electronics, transmitor, batter, charger, binding......etc etc....... Sort of a bummer. Good pilots have natural skills eye to hand. I think part of you two might agree. Agaiin , solid video to help us out.

I really respect what you guyz stand for!! I have small problem with video. Someone just like you told me to start with a 3 channel plane and put the rudder on the right. I am self taught. When I finally got with a person to help me, he pointed out that the rudder on the right stick was developing a very bad habit. Since first impressions are the most important and imprinting, I have messed my self up.. Now that I am more experienced I have to force myself to use the rudder on the left stick. BAD. I really wish I had started from day one that way. Now it is soo difficult to use the rudder especially when landing in a cross wind.. My opinion

Thanks guys!

Hi, great vid. what plane are you using in this video, and where do you get it. thanks