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Old 10-21-2010, 03:36 PM
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i fly them, i just cant figure out how to land them yet.
 
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Old 10-21-2010, 03:42 PM
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how hard is it to land them how u keep form crashing them
 
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Old 10-21-2010, 04:06 PM
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how hard is it to land them how u keep form crashing them

i dont, i fly them and when its time to land its a crash landing and i have to buy a new one.
 
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Old 10-21-2010, 04:19 PM
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ok that the reion i bought a foum one so i can eiter glue it back togther of take out the guts and put them in another foum husk
 
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Old 10-22-2010, 09:25 AM
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Your best bet will be with a simulator. Using a controller hooked up to your computer.

You will still crash, but at least you'll know why.
 
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ya i am actually pretty good at the simulator, but am not so good with the real thing at landing.
 
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Old 10-23-2010, 12:13 AM
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It's even better with Helos
 
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Old 10-23-2010, 07:40 PM
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I love to build them

Airplanes are wonderful thingezzz

If you have MS Flight Simulator - use the tower view to help train you as an RC pilot
(It's less expensive if you crash)
 
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Old 10-24-2010, 04:47 PM
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i got video of my latest crash, i will have to try to get it on the computer somehow to upload it for everyone to laugh. no fireball tho.
 
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Way cool. Love RC but can only afford so many toys at a time. I got a real nice MS flight
sim system set up Wolfie. And MS Combat Pacific as well.
 
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OUCH!!! I started playing with Heli's they are Fun but I relized I didnt want to invest that much money into it.
 
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OUCH!!! I started playing with Heli's they are Fun but I relized I didnt want to invest that much money into it.

its not a investment, its a simple throw money out the window kinda hobby!
 
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It kinda depends - I've been giving serious thought to an STOL very slow flyer that can't drive into the ground like a missile. A model of an air-tractor or grumman ag cat possibly, or a modified glider with an engine

The other thing you could do is use the first four channels for flight controls - and the fifth one for a parachute recovery system!
 
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