gigi
Veteran
Location: Port-au-Prince, Haiti
My Posts This: Topic Forum | RC moments past...When I was just a kid, probably 5 or so, my dad bought a model airplane. Unfortunately, he was not very good at flying it. However, I got to see others fly planes fast and low, and that began my love of all flying things.
I had a go at a Vertibird as well  It wasn't mine, but I'll never forget hovering it and making stay put or moving slowly.
10 years later, I was flying myself thanks to a small .10 cubic inch 3 channel trainer given to me by my cousin. I learned to fly on it.
I got a Great Planes Trainer 20 complete with a Gold series 4 channel Futaba radio. I loved that plane. Unfortunately, my instructor had more faith in my abilities than I did, and that was the end of that.
I went through a few more planes, including one I got to fly for 3 minutes before a buddy destroyed it entirely  He is forgiven today
About that same time, I saw my first real model heli, a Schlutter Superior. It was the most beautiful model of any kind I had ever seen until then. And it HOVERED! I thought it took such skill to do that, I was in awe of it.
It took nearly another 20 years before one day, at a friend's beach house, I saw a hovering Raptor 50! It was then I heard about the existence of a flying field where about a dozen guys hung out. I went there the very next flying day, and a week later, my own Raptor 50v2 was on order
From there, I've had a Zoom, a T-Rex 450, and a Bergen Gasser. Today, I tend to fly the T-Rex the most. My nickname for it is "Twitchy". The Raptor is in perfect condition, but I only fly it at the field, which we rarely go to these days.
Gigi
My heli spending has gone way down since I got a Honda 919 :-) |
It was a while later, he hit his head on the tail of the plane he exited. That at least knocked him out and might have killed him, they are not sure. He did not have a cyprus, which automatically opens your chute when you hit a certain altitude, so he never got under canopy. If the collision with the plane tail didn't kill him, the ground did. That helped me decide that skydiving was just a little beyond my risk threshold.
to learning how to fly and it just gets more fun each and every weekend of flying
. Really great to have very skilled flying buddies that want to see you get better and are willing to push you and help you. If you put in the time and burn the fuel and electrons (electric helis)you will get out what you put in. You will gain what ever level of flying you want. Effort + time = skill. Never try to out fly someone else just out fly your last flight.
