Who Maidens their own planes ?

[JohnVH]

	Quote: Originally Posted by bzrogers
	Asking someone else maiden your plane is like asking your best friend to break in your new girlfriend! That is just wrong.

APPLAUSE!!

Amen, If you cant fly your own creation, get a trainer and learn again.. I really love it when people that have flown for years, cant even trim their plane themselves in the air.

[VKGT]

So does that mean if you're a great builder and an okay flyer, you should risk it all to fly that $20k jet you just put together? Or have someone who is a master at the controls take a stab at it just in case it dead sticks?

[JohnVH]

I maiden my jets as well, if you cant fly what you build, build something you can handle until your ready.. Its like a noob buying a 40% for a second plane...

[VKGT]

If I had a dollar for every time I saw Bill Hempel fly someone else's money pit jet...... I'd have a new plane. Seems we have a lot of cash money ballers here in Tucson that maybe don't have the reflexes to fly what they bought/built. I've only seen one guy actually fly his plane, of course that was after Bill took it up, trimmed it, let the guy fly, then landed it.

[JohnVH]

Thats cool, I fly alot of maidens on peoples birds too, its all good.

[3D-Seth]

I always maiden my airplanes. I have had several others ask me to maiden theirs for them, just in case something were to go wrong, they could have a better pilot on the sticks to save it. My buddy recently gave me his 40% Extra to maiden for him, and his idealogy behind it all is "that if a good pilot is on the sticks and it happens to him, then it would happen to me too, and I'd rather have a more experienced pilot on the sticks."

I maiden my planes, and thats me. If you don't feel comfortable maidening yours, or dont think your ready for it, have someone more experieneced do it for you.

Seth

[pepatrick]

I have maidened all of my planes except my first Mustang PTS trainer. I get a kick out of the rush of first flights..its kind of like that new car smell. I used to buy a new car almost every 6 months...and in 42 years have had one car longer than 1.5 years..(the one I am driving now). I am over the new car addiction since I have been in this hobby. I have the new plane addiction...I almost always have a new plane on the bench so I can be sure to maiden something every couple of months...Yes..it is a sickness...but I love it. I went from trainer to 35% aircraft in 3 months...so I jumped in big...Good thing I dont do crack...Id never be able to get off of it.

[appydriver]

Me. And sometimes fly maidens for others in the club.

[krayzc]

who but the flyers that madien their birds would write on this posts?

hi FG,

I do not maiden my own planes as i am scard. lol

as we use to say in the Marines "say u scard if you are scard"

does being on the buddy box when i maiden my planes count?

[MadMonkey]

Well, since I didn't have the luxury of an instructor when I started in RC 14 years ago (I'm 24 now... that's scary), I taught myself to fly and have never had another person maiden one of my planes. I prefer to do it myself; that way, if something goes wrong, the blame is either on me or my equipment, and I won't be wondering if somebody else screwed up.

I've had maybe 50-55 planes so far in my life, and have maidened them all myself. I enjoy it... it's a bonding experience

I also have several guys at the club who regularly ask me to maiden planes for them, so I guess I'm doing something right... and gaining a reputation, lol. In fact, I maidened an Eflite Mini Edge this weekend, then the same guy had me maiden his scratch-built 1/4 scale Extra later that day.

I try to help out where I can (at least they think so... I just want to fly everything I get my hands on, in reality ).

[Wild Thang]

I don't like people to fly my plane and I dont like to fly theirs. My dad has a saying... I crash I cry, You crash you buy. Just better to stay away from other peoples planes if you ask me. The VERY few planes I have flown of other peoples, I check the plane myself before anything.

[3dubya]

	Quote: Originally Posted by bzrogers
	Asking someone else maiden your plane is like asking your best friend to break in your new girlfriend! That is just wrong.

sometimes the forplay takes to long..