ORIGINAL: Rcpilet
Now, the foamy I can understand. You might end up with a stitch or two if the thing gets you, but I doubt you'd get seriously injured.
But, these big gassers with 100cc engines or even a 50cc engines hovering in your face? It just looks a bit maddening to me. That can kill you.
I'm not a safety nut, or one of those guys who is jealous because someone else can huck better than me. There's always somebody better than you--no matter what it is in life. Only a few guys are really "the best". I just don't understand why a guy needs to be only a couple feet away from a big plane like this. Maybe some day, I'll be good enough to hover down low, and only then will I realize the "cool factor" in standing so close.
Is it easier to see what the plane is doing? Easier to anticipate? Easier to keep ahead of it?
I certainly agree about the big ones. I am putting together my first gasser & I will certainly be flying it low & hovering it low but I can guarantee you I won't be walking very close to it.
Even if I were a rock star 3D pilot I could still get hurt badly with a hard gust of wind, freq interference, equipment malfunction etc... so I'll always keep a safe distance away.
As for being easier; I find being very close helps maintain a constant attitude throughout you're hover. When the plane is belly to you or away it's hard to tell if it's leaning away or towards you the farther you are away and when the wing is towards you it's harder to tell if it's falling left or right.
I'm not a safety nut either, but I would never do anything that I felt was unsafe. Even with my foamy it took me many many flights before I got to the point that I'd get close to it.
I've seen some video's of kid's laying on the ground video taping somebody hovering a 40% plane over them. Look cool, yeah. potentially deadly, yeah!
I'm 32 though, so I guess I'm a bit past the indestructible phase of my life.
