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I am 16 and I get my money from dfferent sources. First of all I work Part time at My Taekwondo School. Not many hours, but enough to put balsa on the table. I also have saved up a lot for a car when that day comes. Also watching peoples pets is a good way to make money. Lemonade stand? lol j/k I know I am older than the rest of you, but there are still ways to get money. My grandma is very generous, but she never just goes out and buys me a plane. As far as getting to the field, my dad has my old trainer(no I haven't crashed it beyond repair) so he likes to fly also. To strech money, you can build spads or combat planes. At our club we have this one kind of combat plane, it doesn't fit into any classes, however it is quite fast and cheap. Also you can build spads. What I am doing now is scratch building a profile over the summer. It has been a good experience. It is also cheaper.

Back to the combat plane, the one I built had a foam wing 36", .25 GP Thunder Tiger, and only requires 3 servos. If any of you want the plans for it just email me. You can't fly competition combat with it, but it is a blast for about $20 worth of stuff(-engine radio gear). We fly combat with that kind at our field.

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:D THE BIGGER THEY ARE THE BETTER THEY FLY....... :D

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True, but also more expensive.

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Hello from New Zealand,

Im 15 and fly RC in New Zealand.
My main interest in pylon racing ( of course ) but since the national pylon league has since died here, I have a go at everything I can.

Anyway, money is(was) usually a problem here too, but then I started working on my grand-parents dairy farm in the hoildays.
Its hard work, but i fly my IFO inbetween milking. Also i am good at saving which helsp alot.

Funny this is in the crash forum, but who cares anyway!!

What happens with me is that I have only 2 recievers and something like 5 flyable planes. Befroe I want to fly something different I usually take 45 minutes transferring servos, recievers, switches to another plane. Its the Cheapo way! :)

Anyway better get back to building...

Stefan

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Have any of you guys ever got or bought a used radio system? If so is it a good idea. Because i was looking on ebay and they are selling a 270$ radio for about 125$.
Just wondering because buying a whole new radio system at my young age with out a real job can get hard.

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don't buy anything from e-bay in my opinion just buy from rcuniverse. By the way I'm from NC i'm 15 and been flying for two years and love to fly scale. I too model on a budget. for example. my firstgiant scale plane will have a gasoline motor in it so a gallon of gas that will last a long time will cost 1.40 as opposed to 15-20 dollars a gallon for nitro. the actual motor is not a 300 dollar zenoah, it's a 28cc weed wacker motor that I bought already converted for 70 bucks here on rcu. it is still an expensive project but it's a lot cheaper than it would be to buy all brand name stuff and all. Take a look in my gallery to see some of my planes. wish i had a big time sponser lol
as for money i get 10 a week from my grandma for taking out the garbage and getting the paper in the morning plus 40 for cutting grass every week the rest well me mum and dad supply the rest lol. I will be 16 in 0ct not at all intrested in driving in fact i am now taking flying lessons to get my private pilots license.

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Racer thanks for the advice but i could not find what i wanted. Everything was over priced and there was not a complete kit of the radio i wanted.

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I got my JR 8103 off rcuniverse and it was amost knew but still got a good deal on the radio....... I Also got all my JR 8411 servos off rcuniverse too........ :cool:

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dude im leaving for the field in like 5 minutes and whille loking at the trees gues what I saw nothing thats right no movement at all. I cant wait to get there can you say pqhor o yea

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do any other young pilots fly pattern? i feel alone. :(

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I dont for now because i just started.

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I´m 13 i have about 12 planes and i get the money from passing out newspapers and washing up. i have flown since i was like 5 or somthing.æ my dad tkes me to the feild and he also flies rc him self. raptor5900 your not alone i fly pattern to. for how long have you been flying pattern?

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well depends how you look at it i'm going to my first contest this month but i've been practicing about 2 months sportsman and the intermediate pattern too..........i also parcticed the canadan sportsman .......you got your majestic done yet?.......i'm flyin a quest 90........what class do you fly in i'm going to go into intermediate next year........the guys at the field told me i could fly it this year but i wanted to start out in sportsman...........there is a guy from my club his name is steve miller he flew in the advanced nat's.....i think he finished 9th.

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Naa i havent done much on the mejestic i´m saving up for the servos. I didn´t plan on getting it done before next year. I´m going to miy fith contest in september i fly sport (the same as sportsman) i´m going up to nordic class (same as intermediate) next year with the Majestic. There is also a guy in my club who was danis f3a FAI champion like 5 times or somthing and he came in like 13 place in the european championships.

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Hey Dan P do all those 13 planes of yours fly or are some build but have not engine.

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I was wondering if any of you young pilots live in Utah or near utah.

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naa. i have about 6 on the building/repairing table and i have gear for about 5 planes but i just switch it around.

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hi guys i am 15 and a RC fanatic, dad got me into the sport and for us it's a family thing, i have around 30 planes and work with dad on holidays to finance our hobby. we are living in Israel so it's not so easy to get to all the right stuff and the price by the time it get's here!!!. love this hobby. best.

below a year old pic of half my bedroom.

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adrian that is a lot of planes!!! WOW

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lucky kid :D .........very cool

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I can never have that many at one time, I always crash them:)

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also some planes in the gallerry but needs an update

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Have any of you guys had your first gas trainer be a Avistar?

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not yet but i will as soon as i can

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Ya electric fan i just got mine yesterday. I am going away for the week end so i will not be able to finish it. :mad: :disappoin :cry:
It really is a great plane though.