RC Trainer plane - My first flight EVER! - Horizon Hobby Apprentice STS

My first flight ever with my Eflite Apprentice STS airplane.
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This is my first flight ever with my new rc airplane the Horizon Hobby E-flite Apprentice STS. This trainer plane is awesome. It's not as easy as it looks but the plane has the latest technology SAFE and offers Beginner, Intermediate and advanced mode. Flying with the floats is not recommended for beginners. I'm a beginner pilot and thought this plane worked great and I highly recommend picking up one of these planes.
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[@manchildrc]

I've been flying a long time now . Perfect choice of plane. You did well but a couple things will help. Lose the floats , wheels are far easier but man you got a great place for them. You were on the verge of a tip stall about the whole flight. She needs more throttle especially when turning. If you're in the throttle and she is gaining altitude that you don't want use your elevator to counteract that ( push up on the right Stick). Altitude is your friend low flight is the enemy. Fly 3 mistakes high. Practice by flying circuits. Large lazy circles. Gradually fly up then maintain a circuit without gaining or losing altitude. When ready to land simply lower the throttle and let it come down in a slow lazy circuit as you get to the water begin to land just a little bit of throttle to flare up so the nose rises and off the throttle all together. Hope this helps great first flight, keep flying!

[@OvalRC]

good advice.. you pretty much explained my flight. I need to lose the floats till i'm ready. I haven't even tried it with the wheels yet.. but i will soon Thanks for the advice

[@JamesLewis-mp9zn]

Stay in beginner mode until you master the basics, then intermediate mode finally to experience mode, each step is a must. Re-read the Instruction manual that came with your plane. Important to know your orientation at all times, remember "YOU" are in the pilot seat and have to think like one. If you don't have a Real Flight computer simulator, get one. Can never go wrong there. It will sharpen your mind/body reflexes (muscle memory). Just like driving a car or riding a bike, you know automatically what to do. Same rules apply here, the more you practice the better you'll become. And more comfortable, confident plus relaxed in that mind set. You did quite well for a beginner. If there's a RC flying club nearby, join them because they are always looking for new members. If not contact your local hobby store, they can also provide assistance. Last and not lest "Bring your aircraft home in one piece" Good luck!

[@ScottBlaydes]

Wow, I was nervous along with you. I caught myself smiling big when you took off. It looked great. Really enjoying your videos.

[@markbutler7027]

You're the man. You got some big balls to do your first flight off of water.

[@StephenRosenbach]

Good on ya, mate! I'm a newbie (almost 72 years old) and I understand floats are not for beginners, but you did just great. Thanks so much.

[@larikmezey3924]

Wow I could feel it in your voice man, you did just fine especially for a water take off and wind plus a decent landing. You're a natural definitely will be getting better in no time.

[@StargazerFS128]

Nice! that was my first plane but before there was SAFE tech, had a couple crash landings learning but a bit of glue and it was fine, had a load of fun with the apprentice. You nailed the landing right off the bat, nice, on floats too!.

[@northeastrailway.]

I found the transmitter that the RTF comes with was ok. I ended up getting the Dx6e and what a difference. (I also ended up getting the Sport Cub S2 and the UMX Turbo Timber).. Being able to adjust the expo and dual rates makes it handle a million times better. I crashed mine ontop of a warehouse (luckily I know someone with a bucket truck) and the tail end of the fuselage broke, the prop broke, and the motor cowling chipped. I spent 20 bux on replacement parts, a little bit of glue and she's good. Overall extremely durable plane in my opinion. I crashed because of the the transmitter it came it came with, it lost signal, rolled over and went nose down in safe... just a warning about that. Awesome Maiden man, how you were breathing was exactly how i was my first flight lmao, super nerve racking especially with a close call like that lol!.

[@dalehotze8499]

I sure hope my first flight is that successful. Congradulations .

[@muhammadsteinberg]

I've been flying rc and real planes for 40yrs. 1st time I've ever seen a new aviator start on floats.

[@millertime6sixty]

Nice flying! I bought the apprentice sts. I think I'll buy the floats now. That's just too cool!

[@rcflyersofarizona8184]

the whole time I kept yelling "MORE POWER" but you did very good. Im sure you have a bunch more flights by now so good luck and have fun...

[@patrickrinehart4393]

bad ass! She's a beautiful aircraft, especially with the floats!

[@HolaACchillin]

Fn great first flight! I just got a duet then a aeroscout s 1.1. Now I want the sts! Man the feeling you get on a first flight with these bigger more expensive rtf trainer planes is amazing!

[@johncrumpley8702]

Good job!!! Shane's comments below pretty much sum it up, but you did great.

[@FatGuyFliesRC]

Awesome job and a great selection for your first plane!

[@mikefas5406]

Great job! You never forget that firdt successful flight. Feels so good to fly and even better when you land and breathe again. I've been flying 20 years now. Few tips but you may know by now. That's a little windy for a first flight. That will make it harder to learn your plane. Secondly, when you take off, go into the wind and full throttle. Don't ease up slow on the throttle.

[@carlosgonzalezcalvo4186]

Felicidades... gran primer vuelo...!!!

[@TheBandit59]

Wow; you did it! I’m next , great video, great job!

[@Squirtledoesstuff]

man that deck needs a renewal! lol Great plane, great video. Would love to get out on the lake with the pontoonss on mine.

[@antiherorecords101]

@7:54 I felt the rush of relief seeing the plane land without incident haha! Great video...

[@mrg4838]

That Was Awesome, Great Job!

[@jakeasomeify]

That was fun to watch, can't wait to buy my own.

[@mikebird8290]

You done GREAT sir. You should be PROUD of your self

[@ericensminger3651]

I’m impressed! Great job!

[@jfaysonitrol]

I just ordered this same plane. Your video made me buy it lol. Great video !!! I’m so excited to try this out !!

[@pauljenkins6807]

Mark, dude, you almost gave me a heart attack with that nose dive. I thought your plane was goner. Good save

[@masonsassaman1]

Great for your first flight!

[@lennyz853]

Great flight!

[@michaelgalvin6559]

Nice job Matt you almost put her in the drink but you recovered with that safe flight and brighter in for a beautiful landing nice job keep up the good work

[@HAWAII-uh7sc]

Awesome brother I love that plane. I have it too, and you did a great job for the first time.

[@klausdiefenbach8329]

You are brave. Well done!

[@CoachD386]

Nice maiden flight 👍🏾💯

[@Cross75777]

WOW!!! Great!!, Talk about suspense!! what a great video! thanks for posting. I know that's all it took to get addicted:), let us know how it's gone and if your still flying and what ? regards, GB.

[@Your_Average_Joe.]

Congrats on the maden, great job, much respect :-)...

[@m.g.926]

Great job. Nice Maiden.

[@salvadorguerra4695]

That was great, I thought you might lose it for minute there.Great recovery n great landing. Mr. pilot.

[@OvalRC]

lol.. so close

[@James_Musnicki]

Damn you're an ACE! Great job and awesome video!

[@mofo9886]

Great video and great flight

[@RcScaleTales]

Well done ! Never flown a plane myself ! You made that look easy 😎

[@OvalRC]

it's not easy... do circles for your first flight

[@jhicks1774]

Wow!! All the best to you! I am also a new-be, and I'm about to the same plane.

[@man5925]

Nice flight, took a risk with the floats and strong winds, good job

[@yamabushisama]

wow!!! i was like the first time man you did it !!

[@Sparks224R]

You are awesome man nice job 👍

[@joegetz6661]

When in doubt power out... Give it the juice to fight that wind. You were on the edge of stalling the whole flight. Overall great flight though. Well done!

[@OvalRC]

my fault for sure... i was only using throttle and rudder the whole flight. I only used the wing control when i almost crashed

[@reignman0311]

@@OvalRC So you were flyin' 3 channel instead of 4 without using the ailerons to turn,lol

[@OvalRC]

@@reignman0311 that was true.. i was scared.. All i used was throttle and rudder.. lol oh yeah.. and beginner mode

[@mahithdilhithsanthosh2401]

Superb landing mahn😍.

[@Livlifetaistdeth]

Haha that was way to much fun to watch. It reminded me of the first time I flew a plane.

[@OvalRC]

I flew again later that day and had to cut the flight short because my nerves were so bad..lol. but had another perfect landing. I'm taking off the floats, putting the wheels back on and learning the plane before i crash it.

[@Livlifetaistdeth]

@@OvalRChaha that's half the fun. Keep it up.

[@mahithdilhithsanthosh2401]

Nice flight✈.

[@OvalRC]

Thanks ✌

[@elconquistador932]

Hahahahah! You've got stones that's for sure. I'm planning on the 1.5 as well but no floats, not yet. That was impressive, well done Amigo!

[@OvalRC]

I have the Habu jet trainer, Apprentice STS, and Aeroscout. My go to plane is the Aeroscout. BUT.. I just got the UMX Ultrix. OMG i love this plane. It says its a level 2 plane. it's a really forgiving high speed trainer. Get one. Buy one. use one. then fly your apprentice. You'll thank me later

[@elconquistador932]

@@OvalRC Good to know, thanks!

[@jgrc73]

That was real cool

[@crichton2121]

Done like a professional awesome man

[@OvalRC]

lol.. i'm far from a pro

[@kcreativez128]

nice take off and landing if that was the first time.

[@seanmccormack5888]

Nice work for your maiden flight

[@keithstandera5140]

Good job! I was smiling and felt nervous for you the whole time 😲

[@OvalRC]

i had to land it.. felt like i was having a heart attack.. lol

[@burhankaranjia9130]

Well done.

[@gabeloftus9773]

Good job brother 👍😎

[@MasterBlud]

That save was pretty sick.

[@masonsassaman1]

Great video!!!

[@josephzaitz2250]

Awesome 👍👍👍

[@changkim5850]

Your face at the end says it all, this is why we hobby rc.👍

[@OvalRC]

I love when the camera captures the "moment"

[@DavidRitchie-tr2rn]

I think everybody is nervous on their first flight. You could hear it in your voice. I had the same feeling almost pooped my pants. you have to stay powered up going with the wind as it loses lift and control…. I can’t believe it didn’t fall out of the sky you were going so slow. Overall, great job 👍

[@martindavey8742]

lol...well done you were a lot braver than me first time around :)

[@andrewsmith7367]

Nice job .

[@Cross75777]

I haven't seen the rest of video, had to stop it and let you know it's very gutsy to be transparent enough to video tape your true maiden flight. I would be so nervous i could hardly keep a transmitter in hands not to mention a cell and thinking of shooting and what that in itself entails, so, I hope you are successful. I hope you have a recovery system, ie, a boat, rc boat..

[@maxbouchard2241]

I recommend turning on the airplane first as it is better for the transmitter. Little tip

[@nigelszudrawski2297]

Very funny well done you are brave.

[@mamilolucosi]

Crazy man. Good job. I crashed my in my first time 😊👍🏽

[@jasonboche]

Nice job, first takeoff and first landing. I know how nervous you were. I was nervous for you as well. I agree with another comment that it was probably a little too windy for your first flight. I could see the ripples on the water. I'm assuming that was from the wind. I can also see you fighting the wind when you're flying into it. But you did it and that is great! I think water might be a little more advanced also. I think the floats get sucked down by the water making it more difficult to take off and possibly land. Just make sure you're giving it some elevator to keep that nose up on takeoff and flare on landing. Flying in beginner mode "0", it should automatically give you some up elevator when you give it throttle. I was a little surprised at that near crash into the water. I would have thought that SAFE beginner mode would have prevented that, as well as intermediate at that low altitude. It looked as if you maybe had it in expert mode but that was a good save just in the nick of time. By the way, I don't know if you did this off camera but part of the pre-flight should always be a transmitter distance/signal test. Your aircraft manual will show you the procedure on that.

[@bobbylefebvre6298]

Nice airplane

[@FORDEVR]

Bravo!!!

[@blackdogrc2125]

Great video.

[@OvalRC]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@dimalranasinghe8152]

Thank you very much.

[@Squirtledoesstuff]

Also, if I could give you a tip, never fly straight at yourself, it gets very disorienting to a new pilot who may not understand the inputs 100% yet. I'd give it some left to right circuts to practice then you can start rolling it over in the high rate mode lol.

[@DronemanJoeRc]

Wow for a first flight ever and on water wow.. i have this plane and i have good videos up about it. Like setup and how to set that virtual fence for the gps and landing assist modules. Thanks for sharing and im new to your chanel so i subbed. Thanks again.

[@OvalRC]

i think i watched some of your videos

[@northeastrailway.]

I thought about getting the landing assist before I flew mine. After my first flight I realized how easy it is to land and that it wasn't necessary with this plane at all so I ended up scrapping that.

[@DronemanJoeRc]

@@OvalRC well thank you and hop you might sub to my channel I appreciate it.

[@DronemanJoeRc]

@@northeastrailway. I got bc its been over 25 years since I flown but yes this plane is so easy and I thought I would do a video on how to actually set up the gps virtual wall and las bc there are no other vids on KZbin that show you so I got it and figured it out to get them to work bc even horizon hobby doesnt have a video that shows how to set it up right, thats my story and videos about it. Thanks again and wow that was a very good flight you did my friend!!

[@northeastrailway.]

My first flight was terrible lol. I was nervous, had people watching and yelling at me to turn, plane wasn't trimmed right, it was extremely windy as I was on the coast. I had 3 close calls, somehow saved it (no idea how!), crashed on the 4th attempt and bent the front wheel in a little bit but I was able to bend it back. It was the most nerve racking experienced I've ever had in the rc world lol. Stalled it, came back down and buzzed out heads, (all 5 of us hit the deck lmao). Awesome plane though, I think with any other plane I definitely would've hurt someone or destroyed the plane lol.

[@markpaulis2700]

I know what you felt... Did the same first flight with this great plane .fly by manual... reading while flying...maybe to close to a international airport scared me because the plane got higher and higher. We lost sight of this plane due to wrong trim i guess. faster created more lift and hight.. Not knowing where the plane went i used recovery mode..it sure had to be right above us but unable to see it that high. No trottle and wait what happend at one moment it came in sight flying circels and getting lower and lower. When close and good in sight i did some nice flying and a great runway landing.... You need a lot of space around you to fly safe ...its fast so it will be out of sight quicly. And i think it can reach a extreme hight too. A lot of fun with this plane and a great or maybe the best biginners plane..

[@AimlessMoto]

More Mudboss setup videos please!

[@justiceonly9105]

Hi, Great video. Why you didn't install the GPS module for an automatic landing? Do you recommend this airplane?

[@geraldscott4302]

Back a few decades ago I tried to get into flying R/C airplanes. At the time I was a licensed private pilot. I actually found flying a real Cessna 172 to be easier than flying an R/C plane. While flying a real aircraft, you are always facing forward. The controls are always going to react the same. But with R/C, if the plane is flying away from you, the controls will work one way, and if it is flying towards you, they will be opposite to that. I was constantly getting disoriented. I wound up crashing and destroying several planes, and gave up. I eventually lost my private pilots license due to medical reasons, and recently decided to give R/C flying another try, due to recent advances in technology. I chose the Apprentice STS as my first plane. But, I equipped mine with a GPS module. That make it pretty much foolproof. You can set up a GPS "fence" so it can only fly so far, and it will turn around. If you become disoriented, you can put it into a holding pattern, where it will just fly in circles by itself. And, if you choose to, you can have the plane actually land itself at the same place it took off from, or at least very close to it. You can use those features for as long as you want as you get more experience. And they can still be used in an emergency. If it looks like maybe you messed up, you can turn control of the plane over to the GPS at any time. I consider the GPS module an absolute "must" for a beginner. Destroying a $500 plane can make you decide to give up real fast.

[@Seb726Laviolette]

Good job impressive! Does it come as a complete kit?

[@OvalRC]

yes, RTF .. ready to fly.. comes with everything, even the transmitter batteries.. I love it. it's cool

[@wilsrecreations450]

I'm building my first plane to fly for the first time... catastrophic failure incoming... anyway, skies are the limit...🤪👊 (I wish I have the same hands like you... well done)

[@horseyy_edits7442]

Crikey, that was nerve wrecking

[@Letsroll000]

I considered getting this and have only flown drones and run RC cars all my life. Was interesting to watch how you handled it for the first time, thanks for sharing. Any suggestions for me?

[@OvalRC]

yes... Get the Hobbyzone Aeroscout 2 1.1 so much easier to fly. watch my video on that . You'll thank me later

[@GeneralHobbies]

👍🦅

[@gblan]

I'll bet the weight and drag of those floats hack pretty hard into flight times.

[@techprojm]

Have you noticed water getting in your fuselage through the air vents in the bottom?

[@baeschler]

That was total good Karma. Nobody does their first flight on floats. Well done. How was the second?????

[@OvalRC]

I flew right before dark for my second flight.. went better. I still didn't use ailerons or rear flap.. i flew the whole flight with throttle and rudder.. i got so much to learn.

[@everydayeasyorigami2704]

What floats are you using>

[@almari222]

Good job! Try to fly with power through your flight. Flying too slowly will cause you to stall. Congrats.

[@OvalRC]

i was afraid of it going out of sight.. lol

[@nitroneal48]

Fly in less windy conditions and go about three mistakes high

[@craigschray4486]

You must've took it off safe when it nosed towards the water.

[@iBrandon2K]

Had this and returned it after the first flight. Can barely handle the wind and barely moves even when full throttle is engaged. Get the Habu jet 70 mm. Way better

[@OvalRC]

I have the Habu jet also. The plane i fly the most is the Hobbyzone Aeroscout 2 1.1 I still take the Apprentice out for some fly time. They all fly different

[@Wings_of_foam]

Can barely handle the wind? I think it's the pilot's lack of skills. This plane can indeed take some wind.

[@musk-eteer9898]

7:01 i was yellin'..hit the SAFE switch...

[@OvalRC]

lol.. i heard ya.. but i didn't know where it was.. lol

[@joeyfesta2042]

Always take off into the wind.

[@NoneYaBidness762]

Land too

[@bobbylefebvre6298]

I have a couple of drones

[@free-birdrocker8809]

Bub, why are you taking off from the water on your first flight? LOL! Ya gots to start from the ground. You just overloaded your task with 2 factors, 1 it's a boat, 2 it an airplane. Its traditional for a pilot to take off from the soil and not the water.🤣

[@random_idRI]

Heh bisaan kolot kolotgeh

[@thelongestday64]

Very risky to maiden any plane on water...

[@OvalRC]

yes, yes it is.. that's what make it fun

[@13seaward]

So full of it!

[@MrWhatahelisdis]

Great first flight!! Hope you've since gained more experience and are currently enjoying the hobby!

[@OvalRC]

i'm loving flying. I joined several local clubs. I bought several planes. my favorite is the UMX Ultrix and hopefully picking up an A10 jet soon. I still rely heavily on safe mode, but i'm working on that

[@MrWhatahelisdis]

@@OvalRC I don't own an A10 but everyone I know loves it. You might do just fine with it. The Habu is supposedly a great first EDF. But my first EDF was the Viper 70mm. I went through a few fuselages and wings. But I eventually figured it out and moved up to the 90mm. Crazy that the 90mm is MUCH easier to fly. Glad to hear you're enjoying it!