About Countryside

Countryside is the gentlest place to learn to fly a plane: open farmland, no high ground to clear, and room to get an approach wrong and go around. North Field and Ridge Field are 600 m runways; West Strip is 1,500 m, long enough for the heavier aircraft or a nervous first landing. The grass strips are far bigger than a club field, so an RC trainer has all the room it needs.

Flights in Countryside

• Takeoff and free flight — Build speed on the ground or hand launch, fly where you like, and come back when you are ready.
• Guided circuit and landing — Fly the pattern leg by leg — crosswind, downwind, base, final — then land and come to a stop.
• Landing approach practice — Start on final, follow the glide slope and the PAPI lights, and touch down on the numbers.

Airfield hop is flown on Islands and Mindanao Farm, where there is a second strip worth flying to.

The airfields

• North Field · 36 — 600 m
• Ridge Field · 27 — 600 m
• West Strip · 27 — 1,500 m

How to fly Countryside

Take off from North Field and fly free until the controls feel natural, then fly the guided circuit — crosswind, downwind, base, final. If the approach looks wrong, add power and go around; there is room for it here.

Fly it from the ground view (press 3) to practise the way you would at the field, with the model coming back toward you, or from the chase camera (C cycles the views).

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