ORIGINAL: Dzaken2800
ORIGINAL: Foxito
Same here, I have been in this hobby for almost a year and I've been fixing more than flying my helis and today I'm only 13.
I have a Lama V3, a Walkera Dragonfly 4, and a Falcon 3D and I've been ordering parts, fixing, and flying my helis all by myself.
I got tired of ordering parts and waiting for them all the time, so about 2 weeks ago I ordered Realflight G3.5, so now I have something to practice on while waiting for parts and for good whether because I live on a mountain and it's always sunny, but the average amount of wind everyday is 10-15 mph.
The wind won't be a problem soon because I'm going to buy a Nitro Sceadu Evo 50 helicopter in about a month.
Good for you if today you're 13, then Happy Birthday!
And good choice on the RealFlight G3.5, I have it too since a month or so ago, and since I have that simulator and a Blade CX2 that I purchased much before, I gained the dexterity and confidence to be able to hover and/or fly helis. The Blade CX2 made a big difference to me, and RealFlight G3.5 a big help.
However, as I keep on saying, the fact that we practice on RealFlight G3.5 doesn't necessarily means that when we fly the real thing at the park or field it won't crash, because it will, and it will be painful, because on the simulator you can crash all you want, but in real life you crash, you pay $$$ on parts...that's a fact...hehe.
Anyway, you've been at this a year, so you have probably alot more practice than I do of course. However, in only three months I've been at this, have spent too much, and got not one but four helis....too many for so little time, and it is been too much on my budget.
I got a Walkera 22E (which I am about to take all apart in pieces, pure crap), an E-flite Blade CX2, a Heli-Max Axe CP, and an Art-Tech Falcon 3D... other than that, my very first one which I still have was a Fly Dragonfly 2-channel piece of junk that I regret I paid $40 for it on eBay, but I bought it without seen it in person and knowing anything at all about these R/C helis. - One of those things we "fall in love" with in life, get it, and then just to find out it was a royal piece of crap. - And the other one (yeah one more) is a tiny look-alike of a PicooZ micro heli that was good for a few days and I flew it all over the house until it broke a plastic shaft on the main rotor, it lasted 3-4 days, but it was fun, I still have it here in front of me on top of the computer as an ornamental item, looks cute...hehe.
Right now I'm waiting for the parts I ordered for my Falcon 3D, but here you order parts and get them in three days, so it's not too bad, and I don't have to wait for the parts to come from Hong Kong nor China...even though the Falcon *is* made in the continental China, but Hobby-Lobby is a distributor in the U.S., I get my parts from them. This is the first time I order parts for the Falcon 3D from them, not bad, I crashed it many times in less than a month but fixed it myself... mostly bent flybar, bent main shaft, smacked tail boom, things that I could fix myself or wait until they are completely broken...even the canopy looked like it went to the Vietnam war, I ordered a new one too...$2.60 for the canopy you can't beat that price, most inexpensive canopy I've seen so far.
Ah, ok you live in the mountains and it's sunny there, but that doesn't mean that there is no wind. The fact that it's sunny it has nothing to do with NO wind. - I live in the most sunniest state in the U.S, Florida... the "Sunshine State" [8D] and it is all flat, but we got NO mountains nor valleys of course at all here, not even a little hill, it is very sunny always, yet there is alot of wind here because the city where I live is close to the beach, and as yourself we got *always* 10-15 MPH, so I have to wait for "calm" days, which is like almost waiting for the Moon to dissapear.....hahahaa, nearly impossible, that has been my big problem on advancing on this hobby. [:@]
Regards...shalom
Thanks, but I meant that I'm 13 years old. My birthday was a few months ago.
Anyways, since it's really windy here where I live, I thought it would be good to set the wind to 10-15 mph on Realflight G3.5 so I can get a little used to flying in the wind.
I am also waiting for parts right now. I ordered the Tail Gear Box from Ka-Planes, but since I live in Israel, I'm gonna have to wait 2 weeks for the parts to arrive.
I used to live in Atlanta, Georgia where it was calm and I would only have to wait 3 days for parts to arrive, but I moved to Israel a year ago after living in Atlanta for my whole life.
So I guess it's gonna be a while until I get to fly my Falcon again.
Well, if you read your message again it said "....I am 13 today", so I assumed *today* was your birthday.
Ah! No wonder you speak(write) English so well, I was in another message about to mention that for being an Israeli you spoke English perfect, but now I see you're more American than I am..hehe. - Yeah man wind is a hassle, I live in Florida near the East coast and I pray for a day in "calm", and always wondered about those wonderful videos where I saw people flying helis so nicely without any trouble live!....well, obviously in a very calm place with either NO wind or very little wind all the time, that would be a blessing for me, and you bet in these last 3 months I've been an expert by now...but the damn wind has made my learning curve very very slow, against my wish, nothing I can do about it.
True, RealFlight G3.5 has helped me alot also, and as yourself I sometimes set it to 10+ MPH and try fly that way, people that connect to my server (I run it multiplayer almost everyday) complain about the wind, and I keep on telling them that anyone can fly a helicopter with NO wind, that the good pilot is the one that can fly it even with wind, so besides that I need to practice that way, and if they don't like it....though, too bad, leave..hehe.
Man what a big jump from Atlanta to Israel, how did you end up there? Either you're a religious misioner, or your relatives are Jewish, either way the context is out of the subject of this thread, sorry to mention it.
So we both are waiting for parts, I ordered mine from Hobby-Lobby.com the place where I bought my Falcon 3D, ...where I actually got it for a good price, it was on sale for $279 plus I applied a $25 bonus discount there for buying more than $150....it came down to be $254 plus $8 S/H and I had it at home in three days.
I was seriously thinking about getting a belt-driven conversion kit, but that thing costs me at least $65, so I just ordered the parts I needed to fix the Falcon 3D, since it's the first time I need parts and it's less than a month old what the heck...maybe I was acting too fast, I will give it more chance and myself too....and if this thing of breaking the tail rotor shaft happens again, I will just make my own tail rotor as that guy did, and go that way.... last time I bought a CF rod like that it was like $4 or $5 bucks and it was like 40" inches long or so, that should be enough for like 2 or 3 shafts if not more....cheaper that way, so it's more fun when I do things myself than just buying them already made [&:]
These days we had alot of calm days, but before the last weeks we had alot of very windy days.....It's true as they say after the storm the calm comes or something like that....because I finally saw calm days, best time I had was one morning very early like at 6:30 AM at sunrise the WX in my city was reported as "calm" I got all ready and took my heli to the park and I had the fun of my hobby life so far.... nothing spectacular, but I hovered the Falcon 3D at like 30-35 feet, up and down, left and right.... here and there, without breaking anything or crashing for at least 10-12 minutes until I ran out of battery..... that same morning I went back there at around 10 AM, the WX was already different and there was some wind......baaaaaaaaaang! the heli crashed...I should not even tried.hehe![:@]
But as they say it is of humans to err, and so I am very human..(hint) hehe.. I can't complaint really, others had worst time. - I met a guy at a local hobby shop that was saying "This is very hard, this is hard, very hard...." and he crashed a heli on RealFlight G3.5 like 10 times in 5 minutes.... when I asked him how long he has been at this hobby he said ..... "A year and a half, why?" <---- Damn! I've been at this three months and I can hover a heli in real life, and this guy a year and a half and still he said he's afraid of flying his brand new Raptor 30 or whatever he said his newest one was.....for being afraid of breaking it!
What's the fun of having a heli in front of you on top of a cabinet if you are afraid of flying it and break it? Then find another hobby, so I guess...hehehe.
Regards