Hi Greg:
Andrew and I joined a local club,
finally got to do some flying Friday
and
Saturday. First time in the air since
returning from your school.
Andrew
quite
impressed the guys in the club. After a
few flights they
suggested that
he
remove the speed brakes and additional
airfoils
from his Nexstar. One of the
guys got on the buddy box with Andrew
to
insure a successful first flight. Andrew
did fine. Kinda wish Dad
would get some
stick time too…..
Thanks again for all
your help. It was special watching him
enjoy himself so much.
I want to buy some 2000mah batteries for
our Transmitter and Receivers.
Where and
what would you recommend??
Thank you, Eric
Greg,
Just want to say thanks again. I've been
flying almost everyday since I
came home
in June. The big difference is
confidence. There is a huge
change from
before the 2nd R/C Flight School and
now. I'm doing 1/2
Cuban eights, loops,
stall turns, and inverted flight, using
everything you
taught me. I'm relaxed
and not shaking ( as much ). I have an
appointment
on Friday with a specialist
for shaking in the right hand. I also
lost twenty
pounds and dealing better
with my sugar problems. See you next
summer.
Thank you
Tom
Yankee from Taylor, Michigan
Greg:
I want to thank you for your INFINITE
PATIENCE! Though it seemed
otherwise,
your efforts did sink in. What seemed
like your favorite phrases:
"make the
plane do what you want it to', and
"you're working too hard"
became so
obvious when watching our local
instructors trying to "teach". I
t all of
a sudden was apparent why they so often
run out of air. Their
methods discourage
a fair number of people.
Thanks to your considerable efforts I
can now find the center of the runway
consistently. More often than our
experienced instructors.
As you probably surmised, I stopped
at the local hobby shop and bought
a Nexstar ARF as soon as I got home.
Instead of the drag brakes, I set it
up
with flaperons. With a little input,
it's a real pussycat; with the flaps
retracted, it will do just about
anything you ask it to do. Even fly's
inverted.
Thanks for a truly enjoyable week in
Arkansas. With your patience and
knowledge, I feel I learned more in a
short week than I could have in a
year
at our local field.
Mitlon
Decatur, IL
Greg, made it home ok, 1300hrs
Saturday. Thanks again for the fine
training, I was overwhelmed but also
impressed.
FYI I ordered an Alpha 40 RTF, a
Spektrum module to convert my
JR9303 to
2.4mhz and millions of other goodies.
Also thank you for
all the links and
picture.
Gene the Marine
To Whom it May
Concern:
If you are looking for high quality
instruction on how to fly RC airplanes
Greg Shane at the 2nd RC
Flight School is the man to see. I
attended
his one-week basic course to
learn how to solo. I found Greg to be
very
professional, highly skilled,
patient, and an excellent teacher. His
course
was fun, very interesting, and I
came away with the confidence to return
home and fly my own plane.
Learning to fly RC
airplanes is not just about learning how
to control
the airplane in flight. Greg
provides training on everything from
engine
tuning, model airplane repair,
how electric aircraft operate, what
tools/
equipment you will need, how to
setup a flight box, to how to select
your own plane. The course is very
comprehensive.
With only two
students in the class you get one on one
attention and
you fly multiple
times each day. With his method of
teaching I quickly
mastered the skills
and each day I saw improvement. The
planes and
radio equipment were all
state of the art and well maintained.
Many thanks Greg
and I hope to see you at your advanced
course next
year.
Brian-Seattle WA
.
Greg
Just wanted to say Thank YOU again.
I just returned from the flying field.
Made my first solo flight, what a
rush after trying for almost 30 years to
learn to fly. You have truly a
miracle worker. I do not think I
would of
ever learned without YOU.
The Training you provided made the
flight go
just like it did at the class.
Again Thank You!
Dale
San Antonio, Tx
Greg
The 2nd RC Flight School was
one of the most fun things I have done
in
my life. Better yet, it gave me the
knowledge, skills and confidence to
be
able to enjoy RC flying as a hobby. I
have wanted to fly RC planes
as long as
I can remember. I tried to get into the
hobby back in 2000.
I found an RC club
and asked for some help. The results
were disastrous.
In the end I had a
broken plane that collected dust.
The 2nd RC Flight School is
the answer for anyone that is just
starting or
needs help. Getting the
right training will be the deciding
factor for your
success or failure. I
started training on a Monday. I was
flying solo by
Wednesday morning. I was
doing loops and rolls by Wednesday
afternoon.
Since I have come back from
the flight school I have flown a lot! I
don’t
even need anyone to help me. I
have been many times when there is no
one else at the flying field.
If you are serious, like I was/am, you
really need to attend this flight
school.
Not only do you learn how to fly
an RC plane, you learn how to tune the
engine. You also learn some tricks on
how to finish building an ARF plane.
The
last thing I would like to mention is
how much fun Greg makes the
whole
experience. I want to thank Greg
personally for helping me become
successful with this exciting and fun
hobby.
Regards,
Tony S
St Louis, Mo
Greg…
I hope you’re doing
well. I wanted to take the time to
write you and
extend my gratitude one last
time for the superb training that I received
from you and “2nd flight school.”
I can’t begin to explain how helpful and
fun
it was, and it goes without saying how
excited I am that I have finally
learned to
fly RC after all these years dreaming!!!
(but I’m sure you knew
that from the perma-grin on my face every day when I left)
As a result of my early
attempts to fly, I could be the poster boy
for how
NOT to learn to fly RC aircraft. I
went through a few planes and well over
a
thousand dollars before I had the
opportunity to learn from you. In the
wake of those shortcomings, I learned a
valuable lesson: When you
ttempt to
teach yourself to fly, all you end up with
is a busted up plane
and a busted up ego.
I am 110% satisfied.
Your teaching method is really fun, yet
professional.
It really helped having a
calm, reassuring voice speaking over my
shoulder
when I got in a jam. That
eliminated the initial anxiety almost
entirely.
Between the basics of
flight, the differences in flight
characteristics from
full scale, tuning my
engine to perfection, perfect approaches…..
These
are things that I could’ve only
learned from my instructor. I learned
more
from you on the first day than I did
the previous 5 years combined.
My advice for anyone
wishing to begin flying RC aircraft is this:
Don’t try
to teach yourself, get an
instructor (repeat that out loud 5 times).
Your
aircraft is an investment. All
crashing does is kill your motivation and
interest. For the price of one crash
(and you will crash), you can learn
through
the school and still have that plane in the
end to enjoy and
progress with. What
do you have to lose? Well, except for
that $500 plane?
J
J
THANKS GREG
J
J
Peter J
Russellville, AR
Greg
I want to thank
you for all your help during and after my
week with you at
2nd RC Flight School. Your
constant efforts to train this "old dog" and
to
help me get it right will not be
forgotten and are much appreciated. The
manner you demonstrated and techniques you
used to coach made
flight school an
enjoyable experience for me.
I especially
want to express my thanks for the help to
diagnose and
perform logic elimination to
get to the bottom of my problem with
Kadet
Senior airplane.
I also
appreciate your encouragement on those windy
days insisting that
I fly when 20+ mph winds
would have shut most down. This gave me
some GRIT I was not expecting to gain in
school. While under your
influence, many
fears were arrested and replaced with
confident moves
to level the wings and move
on.
Thanks again
Greg, and keep up the great training.
Mike S
Baton Rouge, La
Dear Greg,
Thanks for a most wonderful week. Without
this intensive five day course
I would never
learned to fly. Most flying clubs don't have the
time, the
resources, or the dedication to teach
a new student pilot who is a raw
"walk on"
beginner. I soloed a full sized plane in a
little over two hours.
Taking the model plane up solo took almost five
hours of your very
patient instruction so that
shows the difficulty involved. You taught me
a
million tricks that would have taken years and
many battered planes
to learn. So thanks again
and again for it was a pleasure working with
someone so likable and also a good teacher.
Fred N
Naperville, Il
This is Coleton last Sunday.. Coleton flew
this...solo. We had some
high wind that day.
We had such strong gust of winds that he landed
this like a helicopter
coming into the wind.
This the first low wing plane he has flown
We had a BIG BIRD fly in the day before with 30
pilots and 45 planes.
He flew a Curtis Robin
with a 80" wing span.
Hope you are doing OK.
Dear Greg,
I wanted to let you know I
soloed today…without assistance other than
your
instruction in June.
After returning from Arkansas, I was overcome with
home repair and
renovation projects that lasted till
the end
of July. I fear I had forgotten
some critical
skill I gained at the 2nd R/C Flight School, but
after putting
together
a RTF Alpha 60 and spending a day at the field
running the
engine in (two aborted take-offs; some
break-in was
necessary).
This morning I went out early, when the
wind was still and did three
flights. Even
trimmed the ailerons
and elevator during the first flight!
I was amazed at how much came back so quickly.
The Alpha did,
than heavens, fly and land very much
like the
NexStar. Anyway,
my thanks for your instruction.
It ingrained itself well enough to
enable me to go
on out and fly
seven weeks after my training!
Best Wishes,
George
Houston, Texas
Note: George is a great example
of how the RC School can help. He bought a
flight simulator, flew it for 9 months, came to the
school and
learned how to fly,
then went home, bought the
"right plane" for him and soloed, PERFECT! By
the way,
that's George on the left!
Greg,
I really enjoyed the week at training. I have been
flying 3 to 4 times a
week since. The guy's at the
field were really impressed when I got home.
They
could hardly believe the difference. The wind here
in Kansas makes
landings a little more challenging.
But I am getting over it. I even overheard
one of
our regular instructor's recommending to a fellow
who had the same
time constraint's as me that he
might consider going to your class and what
a
difference it had made in my flying abilities. I
will highly recommend your
school to everybody and
will use the techniques all my life. Please tell the
wife hello, and once again THANK YOU for teaching me
how to fly.
Jim C
Douglass, Kansas
PS; Please keep in contact.
I just wanted to give a thank you to 2nd rc
flight school. I just got back
from my week with
Greg, yes I can fly now. This was by far the best
investment I have made in rc. Greg was very
understanding of my skills
and weaknesses going in
and help me work with both. Beginners I highly
recommend going to this school and learn to fly in a
week on his equipment.
Again Thank You
Blaine Nevada, Mo
Greg,
... you had me soloing with confidence in 3 (not
5) days. Thanks for the help.
Hope all is well and we can get together again
soon.
Michael M
Winter Haven, Fl
Greg:
Coleton and I had a great time and want to thank you
for helping us
have a great time.
We spent most of today flying at our field.
Our club is
putting on an demonstration Wednesday
for a summer camp of about of
150.. They asked Coleton to fly Wednesday and show other "kids"
how
easy it is to fly.
We had about 20 club members flying today and they
were impressed
how well Coleton flew.
They told Coleton he need to teach is GRAMPA
how to
fly..........................
Thanks,
Pat
Austin, Tx
(Note: "Grampa" can fly just fine!)
Greg,
The short period of time that I had with you was
awesome. Your knowledge
and instructional skills made for a very quick learning
period for me. I
tried to fly on my own, but it's a lot harder than it
looks. Thanks to you,
I now have the confidence to keep trying. I hope
to get together with you
again when I get back down to Arkansas!
Thanks again,
Chuck
(from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...home of the Super Bowl
Champion Steelers!)
(note: Chuck
utilized the school for one day)
Hey There,
It's nice to hear from you. Unfortunately, our
weather has been typical
for this time of year which
means rain, rain, rain. We've been practicing
on the
simulator but are very anxious to get out there and give
it shot.
We'd like you to know we had a great time and
learned a great deal from
you. Thanks for your patience
and time. They were both greatly appreciated.
We'll let
you know how our first flight goes. Don't get addicted
to the "fixins
" because as you probably noticed, they
tend to stick with you.. ha ha!
Thanks,
Ken & Big "G"
Lousianna
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