Recent content by Wayne Roberson

My mentor put it in a slightly different way but same gist, the lack of mistakes comes from experience, experience comes from making mistakes.

Use caution with the wind. Given a choice fly so your return trip has a tail wind. Also the RTH doesn't use full forward throttle. Case in point on my third flight I was at about 125 ft and the craft was drifting away from me due to the strong wind. I quasi panicked and initiated RTH. The RTH...