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WrightCyclone

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  1. It's been a few months, did you all give up or give it another crack? Thing with helis, is that you will crash lots in the beginning, because what never seems to get talked about with newbies is that it is hard!! Helicopters are the hardest RC to do. It takes a while to be able to fly competently with collective pitch helis. They aren't like cars where that are designed to crash / bash. There is a lot of energy in those blades. So the idea is to not crash. Only the pros say "if you're not crashing you're not flying" well that's true for them learning Inverted autos but not for newbies. Simulator is a necessity to learn really, unless you like spending lots of time replacing expensive parts. It's a whole new ball game, but when you do learn to fly competently without crashing it opens a whole new world of RC and learning new things. You can learn new moves for years and years. Not something you can really say for cars (but that might be a good thing!!) So the steep learning curve is worth it. I fly planes too, and even much more experienced pilots will watch me fly the Heli because they are impressive and people know they aren't easy. I'd also say once you learn to fly without crashing, a midsize Heli like a 450 is cheaper than a car. Parts don't wear out anywhere near as quickly, and there isn't as much in the air to crash into.. Unless you're a really rubbish pilot! Fantastic help for people new to flying athttps://www.rchelicopterfun.com/ , there are also tutorials on how to learn without the sim, as not everyone wants to sim, and back in the day, they didn't even exist. Hope you all had another go and have 700s now, doing piroflips 😛
  2. If anyone is following this post, I bought an Arrma Vorteks 3S. It's a lot of fun!! What a beast.. really enjoying hooning about with it, and shockingly fast. Just a shame there isn't a club locally or anyone to go bashing with around here. Flying fixed wing, we've got a pretty good local club just 10 mins from where I live.
  3. Ha, that is pretty cool but probably not my sort of thing. I have a TRex 470LM, OMP M2 and a Blade 230S and never fly anything in self levelling. If I'm going to fly my heli's, I want to fly them properly but when it's windy, it takes a lot of confidence away and one big gust when in a low manoeuvre and it's slamming the ground if you don't react quick enough with the collective. I don't tend to do many manoeuvres if it's windy other than circuits, lazy 8s and if I'm feeling brave, a stall turn which gets boring . But if it's not windy, I'll give inverted a go, rolls, flips, tail slides, overspeeds etc but that's the problem.. all too often it's windy! I know 700/800s aren't affected anywhere near as much, maybe I should go out and buy a Kraken 700 for that reason 😛 Heli's are fantastic practically, but that's why I'm considering a car, just something to have fun with, throw up some dirt and really all the 'pro's' that lorrylemming mentioned. Of course with fixed and heli's, we use either telemetry or timers to tell us when our 4 mins of 'sending it' is over, how does that work with cars now? NiMh would just die, but I know you need to be very careful about not over-discharging LiPo. Do you just set the LVC higher on cars and let them stop? I've also seen some surprisingly long run-times with cars, of like 15 - 20 mins on a 4000mah LiPo. Is that right? Heli on 12S would eat that in 5 mins. Really liking the look of the Arrma 6S Typhon, do they eat batteries much faster than 3S? Or pretty much the same run times? I've got a 1000W ISDT charging rig, so not too much problem with that.
  4. Some great responses so far, thank you! Pros and cons list is useful, and I certainly agree. Is it a bit weird that the materials to build fixed wing annoys me a bit? Foam and balsa, nowhere near as 'cool' as the materials in cars of helis, carbon fibre, titanium, aluminium etc! Glen75, that's interesting, so you go 'bashing' more than fly the heli? I certainly wouldnt say helis are 'relaxing', but fun, but from an adrenaline sort of thing and every time you lose orientation you clench up, maybe when I was 20 that was 'fun' but not so much 20 years on from then! I guess that's what I want at the moment, just the escape when I get a few hours off from the kids, work and the never ending list of house stuff to do.
  5. Hi, I'm wondering what people who have tried Car, Heli and Aeroplane's opinions are on all of them? I'm having some thoughts that I'm not sure if they are sensible or not! I've been flying helis for two years, and got annoyed with the time required for 'wrenching', tracing vibrations, crashes being quite severe and expensive and generally pretty anxiety inducing as flying a heli, is hard. Probably the hardest of them all. So I started flying planes as well, and joined a club, and do enjoy it, most of the time. However, as this is the UK, it feels like it's always bloody windy! I only have limited time to fly and it certainly feels like every time I want to fly, it's 30mph+ winds which makes flying fixed wing not that enjoyable for me. You're limited on where you can fly too, as you need a runway of sorts and enough open space to fly properly which is really, quite limited. So, I'm thinking, would cars actually be more practical, and crucially just as much, if not more fun? Has anyone else done all 3 and made the switch to a single one? I think something that might be underestimated that's good about cars over flying machines is that you can use them in pretty much any weather! I used to race 1/10 Touring Cars, 1/12 Mardave and 2WD buggies years ago, back when NiMh was 'new', so I'm aware things have changed but I'm used to most of the new brushless tech with helis. I see there is this new thing that wasn't a term when I was racing, of bashing. I've looked into that, and although I don't quite understand it (is it like offroad freestyle?) it looks fun.. so I've been looking at the Arrma stuff which looks really cool, but I have no idea what would be best to get to get back into it. I always wanted a 1/8th nitro buggy when I was a teenager, but aware they might not be that versatile as some of the new trucks and monster trucks etc. I don't have time to race anymore either, so just want something to use to 'get away from it all' of a Sunday afternoon. Anyone else gone through this thought process?!
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