Originally Posted by
mnemennth
Yeah, I've tried the small planes route. When I had an indoor venue it was the way to go. Now, trying to fly outdoors, they get too far away too fast and I can't see orientation. It doesn't take long before they're lost after that and I have to cut throttle.
So I started gravitating towards larger, more brightly colored birds I can see, but now I don't have a place to fly them.
So now I mostly fly the little stuff and try to keep it "within the confines of the four trees" in my front yard... and evidently not too well as seen in my adventures yesterday.
I need to get at least an AMA Parkfly membership, I think... even if I can't afford the dues at my local club, I could still go down to the park and flog my little helis and bigger quads in the baseball fields; maybe even the swift EPP profile plane my buddy Brook gave me.
We'll see... now that the temperature is starting to drop below 100° average, I might not mind getting out in the suck a little more often; though now we're really at the mercy of the hurricane season with the wind.
I really miss living out in the middle of the country, where I owned 200 acres and nobody could tell me not to fly where I felt like.
mnem
*Frunky*
Honestly each ones goals are simply different.
I can't say my formula will work for all but I'm an average guy with average or slightly above average hand/eye coordination.
My goal was to fly waaaay more than I crashed.
To get to
flying I had to lose orientation and cut the throttle but he UMX T-28 was VERY forgiving and DID result in a crash. Or two. Perhaps three. You get the picture! I haven't replaced ANYTHING on it yet and it literally looks like a junk yard dog! If one has lets say a "Taranis" one could fly that joker and crash the devil out of it and with a switch called "insta trim" it is forever in trim. H/H banks on one having to buy new parts b/c it's soooo bad out of trim you can't fly after you crash the crap out of it! Me however, owning a Taranis means I'm ALWAYS in trim with ANY aircraft I have!
If ones goal is to amass knowledge and build hanger queens that is very well understood but for me, and me only, the money shot was
researching,
building and
flying.
I taught myself how to do all three and sit at this keyboard smug in those accomplishments.
I WILL not let something with props win and I didn't!
Be it inalienable truth that we all go down different paths with different expectations.
Picard out!
b