RC TRAINING GUIDES
1st RC Flight School manuals are the ONLY training guides on the market today developed during the professional instruction of thousands of pilots of all ages and skill levels.
Each book functions as a complete flight training system: Hundreds of illustrations and summary Key Points To Remember promote quick study, maximum retention, and easy review both at home and while practicing at the flying field. Presented in an easy to follow crawl-walk-run format, every lesson is explained in terms of what to do, how to do it, and why it is done this way to make the lessons easier to remember and incorporate into actual practice.
Designed with simulator practice in mind, these books are ideal guides to ensure that the sim habits you practice result in even greater real-world proficiency and confidence.
Essential Airplane & Radio Setup Principles for Optimum Performance
Airplane & Radio Setup highlights the fundamental airplane setup principles that ensure a plane flies like it’s on rails and does only what the pilot tells it to do. The book details the radio programming techniques that enable pilots to achieve the most capable and honest handling plane possible.
Primary Solo
Flight Training
The fundamental building blocks and central solo techniques that all proficient fliers use are systematically assembled to enable beginning RC pilots to achieve solo in the least amount of time. Ensure a solid foundation of good habits that foster continued long term success and enjoyment of the sport.
Basic Sport Aerobatic
Flight Training
Sport Aerobatics highlights the the 10+ aerobatic maneuvers that instill the skills needed to affect a more satisfying and enjoyable RC flying experience for years to come. Presented in an easy to follow crawl-walk-run format, and featuring numerous illustrations with control input diagrams, this flight manual is fun to read and even more fun to apply.
Precision Aerobatic
Flight Training
Precision Aerobatics system-atically builds into the sport flyers’ flight the refinements needed to take flying to a whole new level of satisfaction and accomplishment. With nearly half its content addressing the proper use of rudder to prevail over wind, this book provides a significant boost for pilots who fear wind or whose skills have plateaued.
Advanced Aerobatic
Flight Training
Advanced Aerobatics teaches 2 dozen of the most rewarding maneuvers in RC. Maneuvers include inverted and knife-edge flight, inside and outside snap rolls, upright and inverted spins, flat spins, hammerheads, vertical rolls, rolling circles, 3D tumbles, and more.
1. Learning to Fly Electrics 2. Basic Aerobatics3D Stunt Flying
Whether your goal is to quickly learn to fly your electric parkflyer with control and confidence, to fly better aerobatics, or experience the intense thrills of 3D flying, Park Flying 1-2-3D has you covered every step of the way.
Primary Helicopter Flight Training - Aerobatics - 3D
Concise text descriptions, numerous illustrations and control stick diagrams guide both new and experienced RC helicopter pilots step-by-step through each phase of becoming a better heli pilot.
Multirotor Flight Proficiency Training
Multirotor Flight Training features the practical information and flight control techniques that ensure maximum enjoyment and effective utilization of a multirotor as an effective camera platform.
Simulator Landing Tips
& Other Helpful Hints
Sim Tips is aimed at helping to improve the effectiveness of 1st RC Flight School training manuals with a simulator, as well as offer solutions to some of the common complaints that arise when practicing on a simulator (e.g., setting up landings).
Hundreds of detailed illustrations and control input diagrams guide fliers step-by-step through each phase of becoming a better pilot with unmatched ease.
Designed with simluator practice in mind, coil binding allows each book to lay open for hands free viewing.
About the Author: Dave Scott is a 40+ year veteran of the sport with over 12,000 hours of RC flying experience. He has worked in the development of several full-scale aircraft and has designed nearly 50 radio control planes. Dave is a champion full-scale aerobatic competitor and airshow pilot in addition to operating the world's longest running and most successful commercial RC flight school. His manuals and articles feature the accelerated training techniques that he developed instructing thousands of RC pilots of all skill levels.
- Your manuals are fantastic! I've flown three times since receiving the books and have improved every time. Excellent advice, clear - concise information, great illustrations, all presented in an easy to reference, easy to understand manual. A home run!Steve Chaffee. Trabuco Flyers, CAMany of the best pilots I know, don't understand the flight principles that you outline in your books. Your work is becoming the National Standard to resolve airfield arguments. I honestly recommend your manuals to all that fly R.C..Grant Sharp. Pacific Coast XFC CDI read your book and it has changed my life!!! I had all the bad habits that you mentioned. I read your book, tried it out on my simulator, and then at the field. Oh my gosh, what a difference! I actualy came home with my plane unscathed. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!Steve Ball. Corona RC Club, CA
- David, you are 100% on target. By following the lessons in the book, I now have much more confidence controlling my airplane in any attitude, and for the first time I feel like I'm controlling the airplane versus it controlling me.David Duys. Philadelphia, PAThe techniques described in your manual have been of great help. I am now able to land my plane perfectly almost every time and am much more confident taking my plane to the flying field. Thank you for producing a wonderfully illustrated and excellent manual.Dr. Chitter Venkat. Wichita, KSYour books are the best. I don't think you could keep them on shelves if people saw how well presented and helpful they are. If every pilot used your books they would be talking about making progress instead of all the talk about crashing.Woodie Woods. Algonquin, IL
- Your manual describes me and the problems I was having perfectly, and I'm amazed how simple you've made the solutions. My confidence and flying at the club field has vastly improved.Rusty Billings. Lakewood, WII just wanted you to know how much benefit I received from your flight manual. After practicing on the sim until I could do the things in your book, I was able to fly solo with no outside assistance.Jeff Steinberg. Posen, ILI couldn't believe how your manual talked about every area where I was having problems. The first flight after reading the manual was "the most comfortable" flight I ever had. I was controlling the bird and staying in front of it and flying some very nice maneuvers. A great big THANKS!Nicholas Scott. Tquila, GA
- Based on my progress after reading the manual, my future looks bright. Out of the many hundreds of dollars I have invested in this hobby, the few dollars I spent on your books is the best money I've ever spent. These manuals may literally save the hobby for me.Bill Rose. Independence, MOI certainly have not found any other learn to fly books (or anything else) that incorporates learning to fly into a step by step system. I now feel prepared to enter my flights with a plan.Ray Courtney. Liberal, KSOur chief instructor is nuts about your books and is teaching your methods to all our instructors. They all love your practical way of explaining things. I just used your set up manual to get a few squirrely planes to finally fly right.Scott Paschen. Livonia, MI
- The maneuver explanations are presented in a very understandable way and well supported by the drawings. Sport pilots would benefit immensely by the advanced instruction in your book. It is a fantastically insightful instructive tool that no pilot should be without.George Kennie. AMA Nats JudgeI have all of your manuals. They have helped me tremendously. Thanks to your books I get lots of comments at the field about how well I fly given I just started this season.Craig QuillenThanks to your instruction manuals I’m progressing and having a ball. It’s great to know what to practice and how to practice. I'm not nervous any more about flying in the wind and my landings are perfect 3 pointers almost every time. It proves you can teach a retired old dog new tricks.Dave Coutie. Long Sault Flyers