(May 13, 2020 at 6:50 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote:(May 12, 2020 at 3:43 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: You might want to use their training facilities and learn all the electrical, hydraulic and mechanical systems first.
The more complex the machine the higher degree of preventive maintenance it will need.
I can handle piston engines with magnetos and carbs...... I don't think I would do so well on turbines and fly by wire computers....
When you've got nothing but time, you can start with the basics. I didn't say it would be quick. I would probably train for a couple years from the ground up. It would be totally worth it.
I have sort of a head start, with an engineering degree and knowledge of the fundamentals of flight from slope-soaring RC sailplanes...
I probably wouldn't drink beer and smoke dope before climbing into the cockpit of an F-35, though.
RC experience is good translated to real life - more so than the reverse - but it still isn't the same animal.
I have been flying RC for almost 40 years. Fixed and rotary. I flew helicopters before gyros.
My dad soloed in 1949 and has multiple thousand hours in recip and multi engine jets....
And he STILL can't land an RC trainer.....
