ORIGINAL: Steve Campbell
Unless you're a high-energy type who gets off on pushing himself to the limit with radical 3D, once you become a proficient heli pilot your repertoire is the limiting factor. IOW, once you get over actually being able to keep the beast in the air, in one piece, the thrill is gone.
Hate to dissagree with you there, but I have just as much fun flying the heli around the boat doing slow touch and goes as I do with the cub. About 50% of my heli flying is slow forward flight just putterring around like I would any of my slower planks as you call them. I have been flying helis since the early 80s, and fixed wing since the late 70s. Both are still a lot of fun. I tend to fly helis more than fixed wings, but next year I might fly fixed wing more than helis. You never know which you will be more interested in.
Either way, both are a ton of fun.