Originally Posted by
Rob2160
Yes Grant is a talented pilot and also one of the nicest and most down to earth guys I have met in this hobby. (No pun intended)
I realise the programming side of flying multicopters is not everyone's cup of tea but I actually enjoy it. In the last twelve months alone new developments in flight controller and ESC firmware (e.g. Betaflight, Oneshot, BLHeli 14 etc) have literally supercharged my quads from how they flew when I first built them.
Exactly, I started flying rc 30 years ago. Started with trainer then onto pattern and old school heli. Still fly my Tiporare and Xcell60 heli from that time period. I was all ways into soaring also. I have micro planes for the yard and fly edf jets. I have been in and out of the hobby many times over the years. People talk about boring MR, well same could be said flying constrained in a circuit at a flying club. Mr has brought an excitement over Rc once again in my life...Building from scratch and the skill to fly and the mental challenge to program and get a whole working safe package together is rewarding. I'm working on a scratch built flying wing at the moment, never in my modeling years has so much advanced technology mixed with my flying hobby. I'm also a Ham and it has invigorated that hobby for me also some of the technology requires a ham license.
Dave