ORIGINAL: snobelt
By ''crappy little electric turds'', are you refering to the heli or the pilot?
Actually I think little electrics are a good way to find out if you are cut out for this hobby or not. It weeds out the ones that aren't serious pretty quickly - especially when they see what it costs to go to the next level.
The heli. They are sold making things look too easy to bilk the $$$ from the clueless, when in reality, they are far, far, harder to learn on than a more suitably sized machine. Couple that with the crappy quality of most of the low end electrics, and you have nothing more than a failure looking for a place to happen.
When a 30 size nitro was pretty much the entry point, only folks who were serious tended to enter the hobby, and they tended to get proper training instead of doing what this clown is doing . . .
I really wish the small stuff wasn't there . . . it has *NOT* helped the hobbymuch (if any)!
- Tim