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Heliman
Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco.
| Nitro or electric!!!??? That's a question that will be debated for ever!! why? because it depends on personal taste and opinion, as well as convenience and available resources.
I'm a mechanical engineer, so I have a nitro heli because I enjoy the sound and smell of a piston going up and down 16000 times each minute, it gives me headaches but I like setting up the carburetor and asking myself why it does this or that.
A nitro heli will ask for a little more attention, you have to clean it and I like this as it allows me to spend some time with the heli (sounds crazy but my Hawk Pro even has a name! ja ja!) and look for loose bolts, damage, strange stuff or whatever. So if you have a passion for mechanics you should definitely go Nitro is just more fun. Anyway, this is a hobby right? you should do it because you like to do it.
Regarding where to fly, if it is a big heli you need big space, so what they say around, that you can fly an electric heli anywhere is just not true. It would be true for micro helis or T-rex but anyway I don't fly those "small" electric helis with people around because their blades still turn fast.
I bought my Hawk 2 months ago, my first heli was an electric micro (honey bee FP) as it was small and I could fly it anywhere, charging times were a nightmare but not that much since I could do other stuff meanwhile at home as I flew on a nearby park, but I didn't saw myself waiting on the flying field (far away from home) for my big heli's battery to charge and get two flights a day... You will learn faster if you fly more, believe me, there's nothing more frustrating that seriously wanting to fly and having to wait hours for a battery to charge...
Anyway, what other people (including me) says about Nitro or Electric could be helpful but at the end you will have to make the decision, so you will have to picture yourself on a typical flying day with and electric and a typical flying day with a nitro, because I think that decision depends on several factors that only you know (where do you fly, what do you like, who you fly with, the resources you have...etc)
Good luck!!!
David.
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