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 it easier to remember and incorporate into actual practice.

RC TRAINING GUIDES

Coil binding enables each book to remain open for hands-free viewing.

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. 
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Basic Sport Aerobatic 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.  More Info...

Primary Solo 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.  More Info...

Precision Aerobatics systematically 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.  More Info...

Precision Aerobatic Flight Training

1. Learning to Fly Electrics
2. Basic Aerobatics
3D 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.
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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.  More Info...

Primary Helicopter Flight Training - Aerobatics - 3D

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.  More Info...

Multirotor Flight Proficiency Training

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).  More Info...

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.
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These books serve as ideal guides to ensure that the habits you develop on a simulator contribute to even higher levels of real-world proficiency and confidence. 

About the Author: Dave Scott is a 40+ year veteran of the sport with over 12,000 hours of RC flying experience.  In addition to operating the world's longest running and most successful commercial RC flight school, he has worked in the development of several full-scale aircraft and has designed nearly 50 radio control planes. Dave is a full-scale commercial pilot, champion aerobatic competitor and airshow pilot.  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, CA

"Many 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 CD

"I 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 actually 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, PA