mike_mn
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From: excelsior, MN, USA
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Agreed if you shop around and take feedback all over the internet you will invariably end up ordering red's miss hangar one and building it yourself. Their is plenty of room for different things in this hobby, i suppose a lot of people are having fun with their spinoffs and that's good, i'm all for that, but i really dislike those crooks who prey on beginners and sell them junk that a pro couldn't fly decently, great way to frustrate people right out of the best hobby on earth. Thumbs up to those who help beginners achieve success, their real reward will be loyal customers who spend most of their time and money in the hobby and will do business with them for a long time.
Being a beginner, figure maybe i could help steer someone else in what i feel is the "right" direction, if you got into this the same way as me.
In Jan this year, a guy at the office showed me this cool RC Boat video(the Ernest/MC one), and I thought, cool, then they flew up in the air and on the grass and on the road and i said, i gotta get me oneathose. Unlike one guy in the office, who immediately went on ebay and bought a chinese clone, I found myself at RCG reviewing posts about flying boats, realizing they are not all equal. I also soon realized that the one in the video is not available!...After spending an entire weekend, literally, reading posts and threads about hydros, mostly the MHO, Prop-ers plans and the original, I realized that this flying boat thing is guarenteed to be in a thousand peices after about 10 seconds if i dont learn to fly rc first. Keep in mind I have no RC experiance.
After about a week of continuing to look up different threads about flying boats, I chose a person that i thought seemed knowledgable and experianced in RC enough to make a request to about RC flying in general and explain my goal of wanting to fly the MHO. Just so everyone and there brother doesnt start PMing him, I will leave his name out, but anyway I PM'd him and asked if he could refer me to some books or something in general about rc flying and building and he said no, not really, but if i can help you let me know.
My ultimate goal from the begining was to fly the Miss Hangar One. I knew it would be a process to learn to fly and also costly, my intial estimates were about 4-500 bucks...now I am realizing it will end up costing a lot more, since this will likely be a lifetime hobby for me. I bought a Hitec flash 5sx radio and FMS cable and practiced a lot. He suggested i get an easystar, since I am not planning on getting any help to learn to fly, he thought this is probably one of the best self trainers available due to its resiliance when crashed and pusher prop setup. I downloaded the FMS model and learned to do simple patterns back and forth and practiced landing over and over...I learned my orientation by paying attention to proping up the wing with the stick trick. When the plane is flying toward you, push the stick toward the low wing to bring it up. It has helped a lot and I have yet to have a damaging crash with the easystar in about 10 flights at local parks in winds up to 15 mph.
Since then, I built a GWS Slowstick with ailerons, as an aileron trainer. My next project is a YUK YUK PBF(pizza box flyer). This is on the bench right now. I should have all the parts to finish is by the end of the week. This plane is a thrust vectoring trainer. Since the MHO flys on the same principles, this model should be a little more resiliant to crashing for me to get used to before building and flying the MHO.
I can say that I am super excited about building and flying my first MHO. It should be built by summer and hopefully i will be ready to pilot it too...Thanks to all those that are on these boards sharing information for all to learn from. I will be posting my progress as i continue to learn either here or at RCG.
I guess the moral to my story is...find a mentor! Whether it is the guy at your LHS, local club or some guy 1000 miles away online, it is far better than going at it alone. It makes me sad when newbies post questions and get barraged by answers to their questions...who should they follow? what answer is right? This is part of the reason I went to one person for help. Takes away the constant question of am I making the right decisions?
Anyway, I realize this is not an MHO thread, but there is no MC/Ernest model, yet this thread continues...
< Message edited by mike_mn -- 4/17/2006 2:01 AM >
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