The winter blahs are finally gone!

[CCbusa05]

For those of you that live in higher elevations where winter means snow, ice, salt and sand all over the roads, thus relegating your beloved ride to sit dormant under cover in the garage, what do you do to keep from going nuts? I stumbled onto an off season hobby that was loads of fun and at the same time keeps the ol’ reflexes sharp! After two months of crashing and burning, I finally got the hang of it..........I think!?

Enjoy:

 

[SpeedAdict]

That's pretty cool man I always wanted one of those.

 

[GIXERHP]

Ok so how much money have you spent on spare parts??? Ive gone thru 3 sets of upper and lower rotor blades. Plus ive bought every possable upgrade part!lol

 

[CCbusa05]

(GIXERHP @ May 23 2007,14:37) Ok so how much money have you spent on spare parts???  Ive gone thru 3 sets of upper and lower rotor blades. Plus ive bought every possable upgrade part!lol

All right! Cool! A fellow RC heli pilot!!

I've got the Blade CX2 (shown in vid) and a couple of Lama V3s. Parts? Yikes! You did have to ask! Extra uppers, lowers, flybars, lipos, skids, motors......to name few, argh! I've spent at least $1000 on all this stuff! Whew! Got 'em all packed up and stored in the garage for the summer now. Good thing too........the wifey told me to look for work if I think about spending anymore! Hehe

 

[justtight]

Wheres the crash! I watched that whole clip just waiting for it

 

[IScream]

Nice flying. One of my many past hobbies was nitro helicopters. You want to talk expensive? Every little slip meant a new $100 set of carbon fiber blades. At one point I had a Hirobo Freya 70, a Hirobo Sceadu 50, a Hirobo Shuttle 30, and a couple Hornets, all the nitro helis had full digital servos and nice gyroscopes. I finally sold everything off after I crashed the Sceadu for the 3rd time though. Did over $800 worth of damage to it in that one crash...

I haven't kept up with the hobby for about 4 years. Looks like counter rotating main rotors in the video. Does it actually have a tail rotor? Is it fixed or collective pitch?

-Chris

 

[IScream]

I just looked at the old stash and I still have a nice brushless motor with controller, 3 or 4 full size receivers from JR and Hitec, and quite a few micro servos and micro receivers.

Got a use for any of this stuff? It's mostly from my indoor electric airplane days, which came before the nitro airplanes and helicopters. At least $300 or $400 worth of stuff when bought new back around 2002 - 2004. I'm not willing to just give it away but would sell it all pretty dang cheap for the lot.

-Chris

 

[CCbusa05]

(IScream @ May 23 2007,16:24) Nice flying.  One of my many past hobbies was nitro helicopters.  You want to talk expensive?  Every little slip meant a new $100 set of carbon fiber blades.  At one point I had a Hirobo Freya 70, a Hirobo Sceadu 50, a Hirobo Shuttle 30, and a couple Hornets, all the nitro helis had full digital servos and nice gyroscopes.  I finally sold everything off after I crashed the Sceadu for the 3rd time though.  Did over $800 worth of damage to it in that one crash...

I haven't kept up with the hobby for about 4 years.  Looks like counter rotating main rotors in the video.  Does it actually have a tail rotor?  Is it fixed or collective pitch?

-Chris

These indoor RC electric coaxial-contra rotational helis are considered as beginners...........opening the door to more difficult (and as you stated, much more expensive) to fly outside single rotor nitro or electric big brothers. No tail rotor on these indoor copters. This technology has only been available to the casual flyer like myself since early 2005. One of the forums I belong to has in excess of 500 logins at any given time, seems like this hobby is exploding! What you can buy now for $100 or less cost well over $300 back then. Most guys advance on like you did, but I'll stick to the winter indoor coaxial level. When I was a newbie to all this, I trimmed house plants regularly............causing a lot of tension on the home front I tell you!

 

[GIXERHP]

Can you fly inverted yet?

 

[CCbusa05]

(GIXERHP @ May 23 2007,18:01) Can you fly inverted yet?

Yes sir, I can! She "inverted" once when I hit the ceiling fan and fell all the way to the floor!