That's a shame! I actually thought this kid had finally got all the info he needed and gone out to the model shop!

RCFIREWINGS/MARK If you are still here and are reading this. Tell us what you have done since your Q+A rampage. I thought 'good for you' when I read that email you sent me and was pleased that another young guy had just started out in the heli hobby, but it seems as if after all this, you might actually be some sad tw*t just taking the wee wee!

I think he might be someone who is a member on here, but joined again as RCFIREWINGS and wanted to pee a few people off cos he doesn't agree with their opinions or something stupid. If he is actually 14, then he should be out looking for a part-time job to buy some fuel already!

I agree with the euro thing! I don't want to join, I love the pound!!! I don't think I was born when all that shillings and sixpence stuff was around, but I don't think I could change from the pounds and pennies.

Anyway, I'd like to hear from you mark so you can explain what you've done with that priceless advice everyone gave you ten times over! I started when I was your age (about 14) but with a plane, here's what I did, every x-mas/b-day, I'd beg my parents for a new cool toy like RC car or a Playstation 2 etc. Then after two years, I got all my expensive gifts and sold them and managed to scrape enough together for a trainer plane. Then from there, sold that, got a better plane, sold that, got a crappy 20 year old shuttle, sold that, got a nexus, sold that got a raptor 30, sold that...now I have a raptor 60 with OS70! It can be done if you're on a tight budget, it took me about 3 years to work my way up the ladder and it's bloody great, I'd swap a PS2 for a heli any day. I had to go that longwinded route as my mum thought it was a pipe dream and all I would ever get was modelling mags.

James