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PERRY OHAL:
i love C/L and tried that hobby many years ago back in my country.
moved to US in 1985 but never got the chance to get in to this hobby untill recently. it took me a long time to find someone to help me and got my first ship and started flying it.
here is my problem, i am totaly new at this and for sure my elglish is not good.
how about putting a Dictionary  in here.
there are may stuff that i read but i dont understand it.
for example, it took me a while to understand that Venturi is = carborator.
i am stil trying to find out what is C/G mean.
there are so many words that i dont understand and i am even scared to ask it now so i dont look dumb.

thanks

Glenn (Gravitywell) Reach:
Questioning never makes one look dumb....NOT questioning does!  c/g (C/G) = Center of Gravity H^^

PERRY OHAL:
thanks for your respond.
so i guess that center gravity is important. and can you please explain to me what dose it do? especially that i want to buy the PT 19 arf but change the boddy on it. i still want to make it profile but i have seen this plane coiuple of time and the boddy looks too short to me and also i want to make it look better.
yes i know, for a starter is not a good idea but i am crazy and want to build and i think for my first project is the best to start with the boddy rather than the wing.


to answer your question.
i am in Los Angeles. moved from Israel.

and yes, there are many people around me that are whilling to help and they did a good job so far.

Steve Helmick:
I use http://dictionary.reference.com/ often. I just keep it open while I'm online. You can switch to thesaurus.com, translator, etc., from there. Very useful! I will admit that technical jargon is often a problem. Sometimes, Model Aviation magazine has a page of definitions for our common technical abbreviations. "MA" comes with your AMA membership, and I'd expect you would need membership/insurance if you are to fly at any of the public flying sites in LA, or join any Chartered Club in the area.

There is a "spell check" on this forum, but not many seem to use it. It is not able to correct many English words that sound the same*  but are actually spelled different and mean different things, so it's only moderately useful. *Examples: there, their, they're. "Lose" and "loose" are often used improperly here, and Spell Check won't help a lick, because they are correctly spelled, but used wrong.   

Best help I can give you is to get with a club in your area. "Knights of the Round Circle" and "Valley Circle Burners" are the only two I know of in LA.  Somebody will give you contact information, I'm sure. I'm a long way from there!
 H^^ Steve 

PERRY OHAL:
Hello Steve and Mracucci ( i know a marcucci in Arezo italy are you related to him?).
thanks so much for the wonderfull info.
yes i did joined the VCB already and in fact Bill Barber is the person who helped me get started and he introuduced me to his friend that i bought the plane from. he and other peple from the club trained me to fly it. i flown it so far about 8 time and did my first wing over and loop. this is as far as i went so far.
the other club is 40 mile away from me which i hope to join that one also.
from whay i understood, i could fly it without the AMA but it is a good thing to have and i will join in the nexr few days.

about the CG. i am glad you telling me this so i will have to make sure that i start with nose heavy and not tail.
how would you fix it after that? i dont know. adding weight on the tail?
hmmm. i think you just answered to my other question. i was about to ask if triming refers to putting the Decals but i guess it means to do all the adjustment.


thanks again
perry

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