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 How Long ?

How long to learn to fly is a difficult question to answer. It depends on how well you get to grips to your understanding of both the theory and practicality of flight. It will also depend how much time you put in, the best situation is to fly once a week and at each meeting have a minimum of three flights.

Some people pick it up straight away and some take years.

Some people practice on RC flightsims

To help quicken the progress there are new software packages on the market for the beginners use. These help you to understand how different control movements affect their model. You can then try manoeuvres that you might not try on your real model to see what happens and then practice your recovery method. Hence helping you to relate to a situation and recover without loosing a model.

Depending on time and weather you should be ready to fly solo and take your "A" certificate within six to seven months. This is a very very rough guide to time and how long.