Top Race Remote Control Airplane - RC Plane 3 Channel Battery-Powered - Radio Control Airplanes for Adults and Kids 8+ - Easter Gift Toy - Easy to Control Electric Planes with Propeller Saver

This product is great for any beginner, and is very capable of any tricks. It has three great modes, perfect for growing pilots. The only downside of the product is poor landing gear design. Other than that, the product is great. Each battery last a very long time, and charges quickly.

Got this for my 11 yo son as a replacement for a 3-channel simpler plane which started falling apart after meeting the ground a few too many times.It has everything to start playing (RTF means ready-to-fly). It comes in a box in which you can carry it when you go to the field. It has one battery which lasts a few minutes, you can buy more if you want. The charger is USB and can only charge one battery.It is small enough that you can fly it on a football/baseball field. My backyard is not big enough though. My understanding that you don't have to be a member of AMA to be able to fly this (I think you do if you have much larger planes). It is sensitive to the wind but you can fly it as long as wind is not too strong; it's funny how you can make it stay still (relative to the ground) when flying against the wind.This plane has 4 RC channels: throttle; elevators (on the tail allowing you to raise or dip the nose), ailerons (on the wings to make it roll left or right and make the plane turn) and the rudder (on the tail making the nose move left or right to help with the turn).Having controlled ailerons allows you to make aileron roll (which turns out is different from barrel roll!) so you can't do that with 3-channel planes.The controls are very user-friendly, they offer 3 levels of complexity, there's a switch on the side of the controller. The simplest one is the most stable one but doesn't allow you to maneuver too much. So you can just make it ascend or descend and make very wide turns. Next one allows for more control of the plane while still providing some stabilization (the plane has sensors and a microcontroller onboard which makes adjustments to the appropriate control surfaces to keep the thing level). The most advanced level gives you full control over the thing and you can move control surfaces to the max.My son usually uses level 2, I used level 3 a few times and almost wrecked it so try to stick to level 2.I would say that this can even be a 1st RC plane, but you can also opt for a simpler and a cheaper one. This is the 3rd RC plane I own, I wrecked the 1st one very quickly and 2nd one is pretty badly damaged after all the falls. So it's probably better if this nicer plane is not your 1st.Its propeller snaps onto the motor so that if it smashes into the ground too hard, it comes off instead of breaking. I don't know if it helps or not, never had the propeller break before, but did lose one when it came off after hard landing and we couldn't find it in the grass. The toy comes with 2 spare propellers though.It is much more sturdy than it looks and feels, mostly because it doesn't fly very fast and we always fly it on a field so when it falls it's on the grass which provides a cushion. Still, after 1+ years, as my son got carried away with trying to do an immelmann, he slammed it into the ground at full speed and the wing completely broke. I will try to to repair it or even get a replacement wing, but I also ordered a new plane from the same company, P51, with similar controls but a bit faster and more difficult to control.

Great little plane even my 7 year old could fly it

This is my first and only amazon review I've ever written. If you think you might want to sample RC airplanes, this is a great way to start. This airplane is very special to me. I bought it in July of 2020 as sort of a low-risk experiment to see whether I would enjoy flying an RC plane. It was quite challenging at first, but I practiced in a parking lot after work every single evening and got better and better. I probably put close to 1,000 flights on this wonderful little plane, and now it is more glue than foam. I've since built and flown all sorts of larger and more complicated aircraft, but it all started with this simple little yellow guy. This hobby has brought me so much joy, taught me so much, and has given me lifelong friends. If you are reading this and are on the fence whether or not this might be something you want to try... go on and give it a go. I'm so grateful I did.

Well it was fun for 2 minutes. Was flying great too for a low cost beginner plane. Hit the acrobat button, did a nice loop. Then all controls stopped responding. It then proceeded to fly off into the sunrise never to be seen again. It flew itself over a 500 acres forested parcel I don't own so I'm out $100 because the controller stopped responding. Super dissapointing and Amazon said they can't do anything. Can't figure out how to contact the seller so maybe they'll see this and reach out. I have nice planes but bought this as a trainer for my 12 year old. I was flying when it occurred and am very experienced. This was an actual defect.

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