ORIGINAL: Jeff Worsham
ORIGINAL: DrMotor
ORIGINAL: Jeff Worsham This is why I moved to RCGroups 2-3 years ago, just got frustrated with RCU reliability.
Came back 9 months ago only because this is where the pattern community hangs out.
For all other aspects of the hobby it's still RCG for me.
So Jeff: Are you saying that RCGroups is by far the most popularforum for the RC Hobby ?
see:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=11474766
What about Fly Giants ?
What about Watt-flyer ?
How do these forums compare ? Thanks for all help here ....
No sir, I'm not saying that RCGroups is by far the most forum in the RC Hobby. But it does work for me. What do I mean by that? First off- I don't know of a time when the servers were down or that some funtionality of the forums (ie: picture uploads/downloads) have not worked (unlike RCU) so the RCU frustration level has been there. I also like the cross-section that RCGroups offers - glow, gas, scale, electric, gliders, old-timers, etc. Why not Fly Giants? I don't fly primarily large planes.
Why not Watt-Flyer? Only in the last few months have I been primarily electric, and that came about mainly to fly pattern.
Interesting comment about going electric to fly pattern.
Irecall a few years ago when flying electric in pattern was quite a big deal. Had not been done in international competition until Jason Schulman did it. Maybe 2005/2006. They had the plane at the NEAT fair in NY and there was a big presentation on how they build it and what they had to do to get it under the 11 pound limit. In those days hot Lipos were 5C and wildly expensive. We have come a long way in that shorttime.