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Safety - RC Helis are not toys > Helis Vs Planes
 
 
larsen
Heliman
Location: Hamburg, Germany

My Posts This: Topic  Forum

our field is part in two; one side the helis with their own frequency and 100m beside there is the "plank" field. Most of us are flying both (not at the same time ;-)).
No Problems with helipilots going around its helis (or vice versa), but only one heli in time in the air.

(sorry for my bad english, still learning)
01-16-2006 Over year old.
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I3DFU
Heliman
Location: Louisville Ky

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		I do both.....I find they both make the other better as far as learning controls. I also fly Profiles so one could say I am flying a Heli in costume. I like both and don't view either as better than the other. The planes are lighter on the pocketbook though.
01-17-2006 Over year old.
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Yug
rrMaster
Location: UK. Herts

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		It was quite funny today as I was flying at my new site; a couple of plank flyers were doing some impressive formation flying. I was up the other end of the field practicing my own 3D stuff and staying out the way. However, the 2 planks kept buzzing me on purpose so I'd simply get out the way and go to a low hover until they flew away. I ain't going to risk a £2000 heli. Eventually I'd had enough so as soon as the planks headed away, I chased them with my heli and gave them some hassle. I got left alone then. I couldn't help thinking what fun it would have been to have some rockets onboard.
01-23-2006 Over year old.
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zoom boy
Key Veteran
Location: N.E. Lincolnshire UK

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I couldn't help thinking what fun it would have been to have some rockets onboard.


That can be arranged
01-25-2006 Over year old.
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Yug
rrMaster
Location: UK. Herts

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Indeed, I'm currently fitting some to an old 50
01-25-2006 Over year old.
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P-38J-Lightning
Heliman
Location: Lethbridge, AB, Canada

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		lol strap a roman candle to it and light the fuse

Mini Titan E325, E-Raptor 620SE.
01-25-2006 Over year old.
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TH-67Guru
Senior Heliman
Location: Daleville, AL-USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		At my field I have to fly in a totally different pattern away from everyone if I Even come out with a heli. Its because the geezers think im crazy because I fly Aerobatics. I have SEVERAL 3D airplanes and have a few helis that I do 3D with. They dont want to hear it. At club meetings I am shunned because I dont own a 100" spitfire. Its not my fault flying in circles doesnt do it for me. Id rather be inverted!!!! I am always safe with anything I fly. I dont do 3D within almost a 100 feet of me and im behind the flight line. Oh well. Also with the heli's versus airplanes...... Heli pilots get it up quicker.
02-06-2006 Over year old.
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30V2
Senior Heliman
Location: Chattanooga, TN

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		i used to fly the planes, then i got a heli. now i'm selling my last plane...to help fund a new heli!
02-06-2006 Over year old.
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LanceMD500E
Heliman
Location: Savannah, Georgia USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		I used to fly scale fighters at a field in L.A. where the heli pilots had their own areas on both sides of the field away from the traffic pattern over the runway. Nobody disliked anybody, although the heli guys stayed pretty much to themselves. The old geezers hated EVERYBODY under 80. (But, they`ll all be dead soon, anyway...)
I used to wonder what the attraction to helis was- had no interest whatsoever.
Then, about a year or two ago the bug bit hard.Since I fly scale, if it weren`t for electric helis I still wouldn`t own one. The nitro machines look like they`re on fire and if that was all that was available I`d still be wondering what the attraction was.
As for plank pilots hating eggbeater pilots,it`s like R/C car guys hating R/C truck guys. It`s all R/C aviation-the same hobby/sport.
R/C helis are harder to fly that R/C planes, just as full-scale helis are harder to fly than full-scale airplanes. My take on the "helis are bad" logic is that most R/C pilots don`t want to put the work and money into flying R/C that helis demand. I predict that with all the cheap, Chinese ready to fly helis with gyros and transmiters for $150-$200 out there, in a year or two R/C helis will be more mainstream and flown by way more airplane pilots.
02-11-2006 Over year old.
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bwarkent
Senior Heliman
Location: Houston Tx

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Well said. I have flown planes since the 80s. Never touched helis because of the price tag and the bad rap(ease of crashing and expense). When the blade cp came out I decided to give it a try, after all what is $200! I have since bought a raptor 50 and a Trex and am pretty well hooked.
02-13-2006 Over year old.
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ANDROSKI
Senior Heliman
Location: Bucks UK

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		heli`s v planes

We have this problem in our club, now lots of people are not talking any more. Its a shame but heli flyers do feel like they are better flyer`s even if they have flown planes before. Most of them havn`t mastard all the plane tricks like rolling circles and others tricks which involve fast reactions like tip stalling when on aproach for landing (oops thats not a trick its a mistake)lol. I fly both, and heli`s are more fun but you do need a good lot of money behind you for when things go wrong.
Planes you just buy glue and more wood .




Never trust a man with a dodgy beard.
02-24-2006 Over year old.
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Yug
rrMaster
Location: UK. Herts

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		This bridges the gap nicely.......

http://modellvideos.de/videos/slowflyworld/ManuVPP.wmv
03-02-2006 Over year old.
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slash1010
Heliman
Location: ireland

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		heli v plane

thats right, both equally difficult at certain level. drivin a car is impossible until learn, plane, heli, all the same.
anyone can learn. if everyone needed to learn to fly heli, everyone could. but they dont need to
03-02-2006 Over year old.
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JR-ric
Veteran
Location: newport news VA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		HELIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLANE SUCKS!!!

-----Ricardo Maldonado
Vibe 500E pro--VIbe 50--Vibe 90 3D--Vibe 90 SG--
Team JR/Horizon
03-10-2006 Over year old.
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Stormn
Heliman
Location: Rowlett, Texas - USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Since I have a choice

I choose heli's

Fly... Work... Fly some more. Sceadu EVO 50, OS 50H, CY Muscle Pipe, TT CF Blades.
03-11-2006 Over year old.
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walter23
Senior Heliman
Location: calgary ab

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Helicopters are for when you can't get to a big enough field to fly your plane
03-15-2006 Over year old.
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Jimmi
Key Veteran
Location: Southern Ca. U.S.A.

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Helicopters are the greatest, look ma I got 3 fingers for proof LoL
Jimmi

They say its mind over matter, but if you don't have a mind it doesn't matter...
03-16-2006 Over year old.
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CKJohnson
Heliman
Location: Reno, NV

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		I crash both equally well!

Logo 20, Trex 450xl, Trex 450x
03-25-2006 Over year old.
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NitroPolymer
Veteran
Location: Southeast Florida

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		I had an experience today at the field. After flying 3/4 of a tank doing some 3D, and lots of inverted hovering and loops, rolls, etc. I messed up and got the heli over the pits for a second. I yelled "heads up" and got it back over the runway quickly. Immediately some geezer came over and starting giving me a load of crap while I was still flying. (inlcuding saying that "If I can't fly it, I shouldn't" I guess he wasn't concerned enough with safety to wait until I landed. Nonetheless, it pissed me off. I am going to take action though. I realized today that even though the average age of pilots at the field is about 35, the average age of members that go to the club meetings is about 75. Long story short, I am going to start going to the meetings, bringing my friends, and I am going to get myself elected and move the power away from these anti-heli old-farts. If they can't play nice, then I am going to overtake them. They picked on the wrong rotor-head.
03-27-2006 Over year old.
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oldboldpilot
Key Veteran
Location: Southern California

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		I have been in the hobby since age 8 (60 years). My AMA number is 7044.

I worked up to pattern competition (placed in lower-level classes) and IMAC (usually won lower-level classes). My last IMAC model was a 40% Edge; paying for an ARF in 1997, she was ready to fly with the best of everything at about $6000.

Sold my house tgwo years ago, got married, moved into a retirement community (read "apartments". No room for either kind of model. It was forget it, or switch to helis.

So I switched!

Heli has a quite different left stick than a <gasp> plank. Push "up" is NOT full power! Power is ALWAYS full (governor), ha, ha, stick is collective!

Once that is assimilated, helis are quite reasonable.

Alas, I find myself flying plank pattern maneuvers - loops, stall turns, eights, rolls/point rolls, and all of these with flourishes..

Perhaps not yet a true rotorhead.

But can flips, tic-tocs, kaos, etc, be far behind? Give me a month..

Helis are Man's Defiance of the Laws of Nature - OCHC
03-27-2006 Over year old.
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