Negative pitch and crashing

[Mark_T]

Dont agree mark.

Lets say a newbie gets in trouble, hits throttle hold and dumps the stick?

You might as well get used to having it there so it doesnt surprise you when you find it by accident.

Its personal choice, but I think not having full pitch range and 0 degrees centre stick is just silly.

Why set someone up for a nasty surprise that you can avoid while they get past basic hovering?

Once they get past those first few steps and have lost the tendency to chop the throttle then by all means push it up to the max, but until then you are just causing more damage than you need to for no good reason.

Each to their own, but someone new to flying is not going to learn anything from having -12 available other than that it costs more than it needs to if they dump the throttle, and they will do that at first, pretty much everyone does.

I'm not talking about 'years' here, it is more like not letting a new driver use reverse until they have got used to driving forwards a bit.

[Paulig]

Why set someone up for a nasty surprise that you can avoid while they get past basic hovering?

Once they get past those first few steps and have lost the tendency to chop the throttle then by all means push it up to the max, but until then you are just causing more damage than you need to for no good reason.

Each to their own, but someone new to flying is not going to learn anything from having -12 available other than that it costs more than it needs to if they dump the throttle, and they will do that at first, pretty much everyone does.

I'm not talking about 'years' here, it is more like not letting a new driver use reverse until they have got used to driving forwards a bit.

If this helps me in the confidence arena, thats good enough. At this stage in my training all i want to do is a figure of 8 and some simple nose in training. As soon as i have mastered these i will then start to push to the next level. That little cushion is what i need.....at this point.