TachyonDriver
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Location: Chipping, Lancs, UK
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Congratulations on your progress bolkow. Whilst I have to admit that the 4 year timespan is quite protracted from my own point of view (perhaps Lancashire has better weather than Wales....nah!  ), model helis are a hobby and progression/enjoying the hobby has no time limit, apart from peer pressure! I am glad that you decided to stick with it - no point having a hobby if you're not happy with it.
I first began flying a collective pitch single rotor heli some two years ago (April 2007) and now I'm comfortable doing basic loops and rolls, yet the friend who introduced me to the hobby is still at the side-in hovering about stage. I don't mean this to come across as boasting - it isn't! I'm just stating facts.
However, that's with 30 size nitro helis - he does some pretty mean circuits with the Blade mSR - FFF and nose in too! Likewise with the sim. It has to be the pucker factor of controlling a larger, less crashworthy machine.
You mentioned that you like scale helis - I guess I lean more towards that aspect rather than the 3D flying, but even in scale there is moer than one side to that coin. For example, it seems to me that many people want to use a rate gyro for the tail and couple that with quite a slow headspeed, letting the heli mush around as it where. Me? I like headspeed, headspeed and heading hold. I have accepted the fact that one will never get the proper blade noise or visual rotor effect compared to full size, from a model some ten times smaller. I like the heli to give me all the precision it can without me resorting to a HeliCommand box etc. Indeed my hat is off to those who can fly a mushy heli in a precise scale manner! All I have to do to get the heli to behave in a scale manner is learn how to manouvre it in a scale manner, coordinating turns and so forth. I suppose this stems from whenever I see a full size heli like a Sea King, or the EC145 air ambulance in a hover, it does not mush around, it is rock solid..
Anyway - sorry if I went off on a rant I was wanting to give you an insight into my version of the hobby.
Happy Flying!!
Tach.
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