When we went to yuma this year for spring break, DW wanted to stop at Jackpot Nv on the way back. After that many miles I was agreeable. We try to stop on the way down and on the way back. Well, on the way down she won $60. nice. on the way back, I went looking for her and found her in front of a machine weaving back and forth. Went over and the bells were sounding and she had three 7's on the screen. Again nice! I asked her how much did you win, she pointed to the bottom of the screen. I saw $12.25 OK, wrong. she won $1225.00. She said I could have $200 for a new plane, so today I ordered it. I am going with a slow stick this time. Since I am the only one of the group here in town who doesn't have one. Man oh man, when the word got out that I was ordering, several came over to help me and add parts for theirs on my order. sure adds up in a hurry. That's OK, they paid the freight.
Everybody, EVERYBODY need a Slo-Stix. We full time and I can fly that lil'bugger most anywhere we settle in. Cow pasture, soccer field, non-traveled roads, any area with a 20 or 30 ft circle to land it. I've been in the hobby for over 7 years and the slo-stix and supercub is my first planes out of the storage bay.
I'll bet its the red one
I just maidened a piece built Stryker F-27C, 4 cell, brushless and it just screams. By far the fastest plane I've ever flown.
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Electric gliders are good and really forgiving. I love the new EPP foamies. They bounce so well that if they do suffer a slight injury they are back in the air in minutes. Have fun!
Frank
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This is something I have always wanted to get into. We have a few RC airplane parks within 15 miles of my house. I was thinking of starting out with something simple like this.... Come on, how hard can it be? Seriously though, I will probably be looking at getting a glider. I have to do some research, I haven't so much as touched an RC plane and don't know where to begin.
dreeder wrote: This is something I have always wanted to get into. We have a few RC airplane parks within 15 miles of my house. I was thinking of starting out with something simple like this.... Come on, how hard can it be? Seriously though, I will probably be looking at getting a glider. I have to do some research, I haven't so much as touched an RC plane and don't know where to begin.
I have a private pilot's license and have flown a few RC planes. I can tell you flying an RC plane is more difficult than flying a real plane. The exception is the very slow and very forgiving RC models. If you have good motor skills you could actually learn to take off, fly, and even land a real Cessna in a day. The time consuming part is learning all the rules and learning to do it right. But a regular fast moving RC plane could take days of flying and many wrecks to learn to fly if you went straight into that time of plane.
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dreeder wrote: This is something I have always wanted to get into. We have a few RC airplane parks within 15 miles of my house. I was thinking of starting out with something simple like this.... Come on, how hard can it be? Seriously though, I will probably be looking at getting a glider. I have to do some research, I haven't so much as touched an RC plane and don't know where to begin.
I have a private pilot's license and have flown a few RC planes. I can tell you flying an RC plane is more difficult than flying a real plane. The exception is the very slow and very forgiving RC models. If you have good motor skills you could actually learn to take off, fly, and even land a real Cessna in a day. The time consuming part is learning all the rules and learning to do it right. But a regular fast moving RC plane could take days of flying and many wrecks to learn to fly if you went straight into that time of plane.
Everything you said is very true. I've taught a fair number of want-a-be rc pilots to fly over the years and I have to say: Its a lot easier to teach someone to fly who has never flown a real plane before. Seems like the real pilots have a hard time controlling a plane unless they can visualize themselves steering from the drivers seat.
That isn't a very scientific analysis but its very close to accurate.
Flying a real plane you learn to fly by the seat of your pants. Meaning you can feel and see everything the plane is doing. With an RC plane all you can do is see and sometimes what you see is backwards. That was the hardest time I had was controlling the plane when it was coming toward me.
My first RC plane was one of the plastic Cessna models that was a semi-beginner model. It was not the real slow forgiving type but it wasn't all that fast either. I figured I was a pilot I can fly this thing. And I actually did pretty good and even landed it, once. The second flight was it's last flight. And it was that I was doing that bad, but I was flying it in a construction zone near my house. There were no houses, but the streets were in and so were the street lights. A street light post took it out when I tried to turn it one way and it went the other. Actually it went the way I really turned it, but it was coming toward me.
I was kidding when I asked how hard can it be, it actually looks like something you need to put quite a bit of time and money into if you want to become proficient in it, this is why I haven't stepped up to the plate to give it a go yet. I do plan on it though, it just looks like alot of fun and a great way to take your mind off things. I will just need to fit it in between work, golf and my 1st passion fishing...
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