Simviation Forum - RC Pilots?

Jun 11^th, 2011 at 7:35pm

Jayhawk Jake Offline
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Anyone else fly RC? I only have one plane right now, Ultra Micro T-28, but I've flown a few others and have a ton of time in simulators.

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Reply #1 - Jun 12^th, 2011 at 4:07am

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I have a couple of electro aircraft a the moment. A Mini-Mag and a B25. Did helis for around 10 years, but no time got in the way (they are not like riding a bike, you can got backwards very quickly when you have not flown for a while). So I swapped that for a 1/5 scale monster truck with a 30cc chainsaw engine Cool

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Reply #2 - Jun 12^th, 2011 at 4:55am

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My Dad flew them and I flew a couple of his once or twice. I need to gather them up and sell them, as I will never get around to using them.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #3 - Jun 12^th, 2011 at 5:00am

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I have an RC Super Cub. I used to fly it every Sunday morning but it's been ages since I've used it now.

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Reply #4 - Jun 12^th, 2011 at 9:04am

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I used to be very involved in RC, owned a couple of planes myself and had a 500x100 grass strip in my grandfathers field. College, career, and life pulled me away from it, and really haven't had time or $$ to get back into it, not to mention I don't know of any strips near where I live now.

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Reply #5 - Jun 12^th, 2011 at 3:33pm

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DaveSims wrote on Jun 12^th, 2011 at 9:04am:

I used to be very involved in RC, owned a couple of planes myself and had a 500x100 grass strip in my grandfathers field. College, career, and life pulled me away from it, and really haven't had time or $$ to get back into it, not to mention I don't know of any strips near where I live now.

I just fly out of my apartments parking lot, don't have to go anywhere and can still have some fun. I'm planning on getting a floatplane soon so I can fly off and around the lake in the middle of the complex

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Reply #6 - Jun 12^th, 2011 at 10:09pm

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I've played around with it from time to time. I like small, simple electric planes these days. I tried Helicopter flying for a while but I could never get the hang of flying anything but co-axial heli's. I have a Flyzone Playmate that I just love, but the weather this spring/summer has not cooperated with my days off. It seems like it's always too windy to fly when I have the time. As for flying fields, the Playmate is small enough that all I need is a baseball field or an empty parking lot. Wink

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Reply #7 - Jun 13^th, 2011 at 5:35am

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Jayhawk Jake wrote on Jun 12^th, 2011 at 3:33pm:

DaveSims wrote on Jun 12^th, 2011 at 9:04am:

I used to be very involved in RC, owned a couple of planes myself and had a 500x100 grass strip in my grandfathers field. College, career, and life pulled me away from it, and really haven't had time or $$ to get back into it, not to mention I don't know of any strips near where I live now.

I just fly out of my apartments parking lot, don't have to go anywhere and can still have some fun. I'm planning on getting a floatplane soon so I can fly off and around the lake in the middle of the complex

This is what you need Jake and then a set of these to go with it.

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Reply #8 - Jun 13^th, 2011 at 9:18pm

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Does a Micro-Copter that I sometimes ~~torment~~ excersize my dogs with count?

They ~~hate~~ love that little whirly! Cheesy

This is micro #2 for me..........#1 was captured and eaten. Wellllllll, not eaten per se, more like mauled! Grin

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Reply #9 - Jun 14^th, 2011 at 3:05pm

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U4EA wrote on Jun 13^th, 2011 at 9:18pm:

Does a Micro-Copter that I sometimes ~~torment~~ excersize my dogs with count?

They ~~hate~~ love that little whirly! Cheesy

This is micro #2 for me..........#1 was captured and eaten. Wellllllll, not eaten per se, more like mauled! Grin

I've been wanting to get one of those to fly in the house. Grin

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #10 - Jun 14^th, 2011 at 3:29pm

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I highly recommend it! Cool

Get one of the twin rotor models, way more stable than the main & tail model even there was a balance adjustment on the remote. Sorta glad that one was "shot down" and "captured" by the "enemy"......bad doggies! Actually, bad me!

I've heard the AirHogs copter is cool but I have a sorta off-brand one that I like a lot.

One thing though, avoid flying anywhere where there are small knick-knacky things on shelves, especially ones that the wife likes, even though I contend that you can barely see the cracks since it was expertly superglued back together! Cheesy

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Reply #11 - Jun 14^th, 2011 at 4:17pm

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No wife, no knick-knacks. But there is a lot of clutter to act as an obstacle course. Roll Eyes

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #12 - Jun 14^th, 2011 at 6:58pm

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I fly a wot4 trainer with an OS 55ax fitted, also a thundertiger 82" Cub waiting to have engine fitted, and a seagull harmon rocket mk3 that i won via the RCME magazine.

There's also 3 co-axial heli's, 2 of em not not flown yet.

Not taken my 'A' test yet to go solo but not far from it.

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Reply #13 - Jun 15^th, 2011 at 8:14pm

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My ultra micro trojan continues to impress me, just hit a light pole at full speed Embarrassed

Battery flew off, and it came to a rest in the grass. Only damage was the tape that holds the top and bottom halves together came apart at the front. Taped it up, plugged in a new battery and it was good to go Grin

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Reply #14 - Jun 18^th, 2011 at 8:04pm

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Just bought a GWS E-Starter and floats...now I just need some glue to put it together. Grin

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Reply #15 - Jun 21^st, 2011 at 10:29am

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Back when I was about 12-13(currently am 15), I flew many RC planes. I actually joined a club called the "Flying Tigers." Great people, a lot of activity, and a nice large field to fly gas powered rc planes. I soloed their and bumped up to the "UCanDo 3D." But like the other guys here, I haven't flown since. Just haven't gotten around to it.

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Reply #16 - Jun 21^st, 2011 at 12:38pm

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EVVFCX wrote on Jun 14^th, 2011 at 6:58pm:

Not taken my 'A' test yet to go solo but not far from it.

What is the "A" test?

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