Resources

Need to know how to buy, build or set up your free-flight planes? Well, the best free-flight resource we have is our Free-Flight webpage. Along with the information there for getting started, links are provided to other web pages that may help or interest you.

Need to know how to buy, build or set up your sailplane? How about flight simulators or magazines about sailplanes? Below are some links to web pages that may help you.

These resources may well be more details than someone new to this sport wants or needs. To avoid wasting time and money getting started, you should contact LISF and we will be happy to help and guide you – we don’t charge for this. In general, members start to become available to help on the field in April and stop in November, with the greatest number available when the weather is warmer.

Beginners

The Novice Lounge

Thermals and how to catch them

Six Keys to Success for New Pilots

Everything You Wanted to Know About Electric Flight – An e-Book

Things to Check on a RTF

Magazines On-line

RC Soaring Digest On-Line Magazine

Flight Simulators

Getting Started with a Flight Simulator

Plane and Radio Setup

Trimming your airplane

Electric Gliders and Planes Legal at the LISF Field

HobbyZone Super Cub

GWS Slow Stick

Multiplex Easy Star

Multiplex Cularis e-glider

Multiplex Easy Glider Pro

GWS Tiger Moth

ParkZone Radian E-glider

Ascent e-glider

DJ Aerotech Chrysalis HLG -electric

GUPPY electric sailplane

Art Hobby – Serenity-EV 2.5M

Supra Electric

Used Airplanes and Gliders

RC Universe For Sale Listings

Ebay

Advanced Sport or Intermediate Competition Gliders

Intermediate Contest Glider

Competition Flying

Eastern Soaring League (ESL)

Contest Flying Tips – Secrets to Contest Flying

Contest Strategies

Using the Rudder in Thermal Flying by Mark Drela – “Maximizing the performance of your aileron sailplane when thermal flying requires effective use of the rudder.”

Finding and working Very Light Lift – Mark Drela

Timing the Zoom on a Winch Launch

Launch Settings – Launch-Meister by Daryl Perkins

Launch Settings – Maximizing Your Launch Potential by Joe Wurts

Trimming – Center of Gravity and Dive Testing by Ben Clerx

Trimming – Maximum Performance by Ben Clerx