How many here dont know how to fly?

[Zbip57]

LOL, I remember back in the Phantom 1 days when this forum was brand new, I suggested pilots learn to fly patterns like circles, squares, ovals, etc. [...]

Ha! I once tried to join our local model flying club, hoping to meet up with other people to fly my Phantom-1. They insisted on making me first pass their flight test, one of the things required being able to fly a square pattern.
I guess they'd never seen a quadcopter before, because a square is dead simple. Straight forward, slide straight to the right, straight back, and slide straight to the left.
Oh, you mean the nose is supposed to be pointing in the direction it's flying?
Well, have you ever heard of "Course-Lock"? It can fly that same square pattern in straight lines, even with the drone spinning 360s in yaw all the way around the square. They'd never seen that before.
Of course, I would never have been able to do that manually.
See at 5:25 in this video.

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[Cafguy]

As a kid I begged my parents to let me join the RC Club The "School" was very expensive!
One Christmas I got the Student packet!! My mom handed me it and enough cash to buy the extras needed. ( the kit came with the class but you still needed, engine electronics etc...) My first day The old man handed me a box of sticks and some blueprints. I could not believe I could ever turn this into an airplane let alone one that flew, But after sometime and a lot of mistakes, My Hobby lobby TeleMaster Took to the skys!!!
I have been hooked on everything RC ever since! Planes, Cars, and of course FPV. I love too build most of all really and I would build Planes constantly if I had the room and the money lol.
At the moment its Carpet racing season! so I am putting a Losi buggy together to run at the track! If I can continue to afford it, FPV will be my "main" Hobby now........... Alas my poor cherished Planes will stay in the shed. California is getting angry over our Gassers anyway and it looks as if their days may be numbered

 

[Evan03]

Love seeing all the rc interest here. Good to see theres quite a few of us.

 

[Droning on and on...]

LOL, I remember back in the Phantom 1 days when this forum was brand new, I suggested pilots learn to fly patterns like circles, squares, ovals, etc. and I was met with a lot of arguments from forum members who claimed the Phantom was "an out and back unit" and claimed there was no need to learn to "do fancy moves like circles."

"fancy moves like circles"... nyuk, nyuk, nyuk

 

[Droning on and on...]

@Cafguy building is the main reason I got into RC helicopters... the mechanisms are so cool.

Flying was fun too

 

[Cafguy]

@Cafguy building is the main reason I got into RC helicopters... the mechanisms are so cool.

Flying was fun too

The first mistake I made when it came to heli's is diving right in with a nitro 450 and trying to learn Semi-solo. Put me off of them pretty Fast. Years later I did get one of the little Blade Helis but It was just a parts sales tool lol. I can fly a Heli "Scale" but I would destroy it trying to do that 3-D stuff or fly really fast. Plus the Heli guys were pretty lonely way out there in the back of the field..........till Drones caught on. lol

 

[Evan03]

Helis are amazing. Assembing a 600 from a bunch of parts slapping servos on it and it actually flies. Amazing.

 

[Rchawks]

I couldn't believe the video of the helicopter in the living room, but then I did fly my helicopter inside once where if the wrong person walked in I would have been in a lot of trouble (not the wife)..enough said about that so I'm not judging. Long time rc sailplane flyer here. My wife just seen the video here of the gas helicopter hovering in the living room and commented how men are just like wild dogs that have to be trained, walkie walkie, for the living color fans

 

[Evan03]

I couldn't believe the video of the helicopter in the living room, but then I did fly my helicopter inside once where if the wrong person walked in I would have been in a lot of trouble (not the wife)..enough said about that so I'm not judging. Long time rc sailplane flyer here. My wife just seen the video here of the gas helicopter hovering in the living room and commented how men are just like wild dogs that have to be trained, walkie walkie, for the living color fans

Thank you. That was 12 years , have learned so much since then. Definitely wouldnt recommend flying anything in the house

 

[Rchawks]

Well maybe a neo, lol.

 

[Evan03]

Received my 3s today. Pulled my hair out getting it activated. Finally did then got a few flights in.

These are screen shots.


Pretty dang excited

 

[Rchawks]

Very cool area to fly and take pictures!

 

[Evan03]

Thanks. Going crazy snow storm now.

Went out just now. Was unable to break through snow to 400ft. Does snow affect sensors. Seemed pretty twitchy with snow flakes hitting it.
Return to home worked so i figured i better not push my luck loseing it in a snow storm.

 

[Bad Santa]

Thanks. Going crazy snow storm now.

Went out just now. Was unable to break through snow to 400ft. Does snow affect sensors. Seemed pretty twitchy with snow flakes hitting it.
Return to home worked so i figured i better not push my luck loseing it in a snow storm.

I would think that snow would really mess with the obstacle avoidance sensors.

 

[Evan03]

 

[Bad Santa]

Kind of looks like a meteor crater.

 

[Evan03]

It is,both are impact craters

 

[Aerophile]

How many come from a real flying back ground planes or helis?

I've been flying real, human-carrying airplanes since the late 1960s (and yes, I was v-e-r-y young when I learned to fly, they had me sitting on a stack of pillows so I could see out the front window). Had trouble reaching the rudder pedals for the first couple years. I think I'm pretty good at it now.

Flying the drone takes some different skills, but many of the very things I first learned flying around in Cessnas are also perfectly applicable to flying drones nowadays. Being well-aware of, and in tune with, the environment within which you dwell is one (a lost art), and having a light touch on the controls is another. Looking ahead and anticipating what's likely coming, yeah that too. Behaving like an adult comes in handy, though that's vanishingly rare. Plenty of what once passed for "common sense" (which is no longer common) counts for a lot, too.

But don't be too hard on idiots with drones, they're just representative of the wider society they're drawn from.

 

[Evan03]

Figured id share this here.

The air3s in my mystery ranch pack. Could not be more perfect.

 

[Rchawks]

Thanks. Going crazy snow storm now.

Went out just now. Was unable to break through snow to 400ft. Does snow affect sensors. Seemed pretty twitchy with snow flakes hitting it.
Return to home worked so i figured i better not push my luck loseing it in a snow storm.

I would be very careful about flying while it's snowing without a wetsuit, just saying.