MattJen
Elite Veteran
Location: UK
| i agree with Jeff,
It is all a bit of fun, i dont like fixed wings, i find them dangerous, unsafe, and unpredictable, and the level of skill that goes into building them is not as high as a hellie.
A hellie demands more skill, stuff the crap about flying a fixed wing demand as much skill, no it doesnt, it took me 10 mins to learn to fly a fixed wing after flying competition hellies for 2 years,
I agree i have only flown fun flys and 2 scale models which do behave differently to high wings and i suppose to be fair do demand some skill to land and take off, but i fell and this a personal opinion, from experience, the fixed wingers i have seen most seem to crash all the time, and when i am practicing competiton hovering manouvers and you see a fixed wing fly over your hover patch cos an aeleron got jammed due to poor building, it really does unerve you when my fury is almost 1500.00 when compared to a 250.00 plank. stuck together with epoxy resin.
The reason i went into fixed wing was to try and brige the gap between fixed and rotary wings at my club, both camps had no understadning of each others models, which is why the friction often occurrs,
A fixed wing machine is flown up high and far away from the pilot, to a fixed wing pilot a hellie hovering 5 meters in front when you are not used to it can be percieved as dangerous
AND WHEN YOU GET STUPID HELICOPTER PILOTS PUTTING THEIR CRASH PICTURES ALONG WITH INJURIES SUSTAINED ON A WEB SITE FOR ALL TO SEE, IT IS ANY WONDER WE ARE HATED AND VIEWED AS UNSAFE.
i know that with those comments all the hellie crashers are gonna crucify me , saying well i put it on the site to show and warn others,
my answer to that is "just tpye it dont put pictures up, after all, anyone can access the internet, and i know that people on councils and health and safety pannellss when they get aqn application for a flying field the first they do before considering it is look on web sites such as these, and when you see picutres of crashes which alwasy look worse in a picture than in reality, it doesnt do us any favours.
I enjoy flying my hellies and would not change it for the world, the skills and passion i have learnt will never be surpassed by flying a fixed wing,
i fly a fixed wing to unwind after heavy competition practice, i have tried prop hanging, the closing the barn door manouver, and yeah it can be fun to master, but really all that is needed to achieve those moves is a the right prop,andmaybe a couple of mixes, whereas compared to a hellie, you have set up throttle curves, pitch curves, expo, negatitive pitch, and the list goes on,
i have seen so many fixed wing pilots become helli pilots and their attitude changes over night, gone are the days of throwing cheap servos into a fusealage, a cheap reciever, that is held in by foam and tape and wings that held on with elastic bands, i even frown when i see a hellie pilot fly with futaba 3001 servos, hellies demand so much more skill and respect,
i know you can progress with jets in fixed wing and higher level of scale models, but to be honest all i see around is cheap fun fly's like the pimbo and cougar, i sometimes see a nice scale spifire but it is often few and far between.
Becuase hellies are relativly new compared to fixed wing it will always be viewed as a threat as most of the people that fly fixed wings are old gits who have been around since WW2, and they will not change!!!
but hey thats life, it was funny i talked a glider pilot and they had the same argument when it changed from gliders to planks, the attitude was the same as it is now between hellies and fixed wing,
The hellie is much more of a demanging machine both in skill and in flying terms, it goes even higher when you move into turbines,
well that is my speach over with, or as previouse poster said"""""""""
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| All flight has it’s challenges. Some will always remain a challenge. As I aways say to people “You’ll never know everything as there is aways more to learn and always a idiot that has it all figerued out” FLIGHT IS AWSOME IN ALL FORMS. By bashing fixed wing aircraft it only shows your IGNORENCE and you limit yourself in many ways, not just in the flying relm, but as a person. Here’s a thought, lets grow together. Respect, appreciate, learn, and grow
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I don't have much time to relax
JG
