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Beginners Corner > What a freaking rush!
 
 
albertrivera
Heliman
Location: Fresno, ca USA

Well after being on this forum for a good while, asking a lot of questions & getting some great input from everyone here, getting a lot of practice in Reflex, reading a great deal on proper setup, a lot of patience, I finally did it. Foward flight. I took my raptor 60 & for the first time started with a nose in hover, when i noticed it was no different than on the simulator I took it up to about 12 feet high, i just started going into foward flight & started doing figure eights with out a problem, I thought my heart was going to pop out of my chest, but I was flying. Totally amazing. To anyone out there wanting to get into this hobby, don't delay. Join this forum. The guys here are just awesome, they will really go out of thier way to help you out.

Can't wait to go flying again tomorrow.

Thanks
Albert
06-30-2008 09:07 PM
 
 
nmrs
Senior Heliman
Location: Austin, TX

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I took my raptor 60 & for the first time started with a nose in hover

I'm a little confused. Was this your first flight ever with a real heli (i.e. non-sim)? Or just the first time you've started with nose in hover and done forward flight? If this was your first time flying a heli, you must need a wheel barrow to carry that set around...

In either case, congrats. Sounds like you had an awesome flight!
06-30-2008 09:19 PM
 
 
albertrivera
Heliman
Location: Fresno, ca USA

What a freaking rush!

It was my first foward flight. Have have been practicing tail in hover for a few months, but it's the first time I did nose in hover & then foward flight. I had a small electric I got on Ebay, but man, much more unstable than the raptor 60. Then I put a lot of hours on the simulator with a raptor 90 model, & man, it really paid off.
06-30-2008 09:43 PM
 
 
USNAviationjay
Senior Heliman
Location: Sugar Land Tx USA

I can relate.. that first time into FF is really amazing.

I flew myself harder and faster than I have ever flown before this weekend as I finally got my AMA and went to a local club field with almost unlimited airspace.. wow what an eye opener when you have room..

doing circuits at over 100 feet up and just tearing around was a blast.
06-30-2008 09:46 PM
 
 
JRjoe
Elite Veteran
Location: Portage, IN

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got my AMA and went to a local club field with almost unlimited airspace.. wow what an eye opener when you have room..

That's exactly why i like the club field. Lot's of open space, much easier to learn when you got time and room to react. Plus , hanging with other heli pilots is cool too....


JRjoe
07-01-2008 03:43 PM
 
 
nmrs
Senior Heliman
Location: Austin, TX

albertrivera, i just hit the same milestone today. Been mainly just hovering around a bit till now. Mostly tail in, a few pirouettes, maybe a quick 5 sec nose-in hover (basically just stalling on a pirouette), and half-figure 8's -- i.e little forward flight, turn, bring it back in front of me tail in...

Anyway, today everything clicked. Extended nose-in hovers (still 40 feet up or so -- 2 mistakes high ) -- at least 45 secs, maybe a minute. I just pulled out of it because I was ready to do something else. I did a few of these and felt like I could hold it there all day. Also extended figure 8's. Maybe 6 or 7 consecutive turns each time without stopping between them.

What a great day of flying, and what a rush. I came home excited and told my wife and she told me "Way to go honey. You're such a dork."
07-04-2008 12:34 AM
 
 
newheliguy1
New Heliman
Location: Zanesville,Ohio

First Time

Yea first time is a rush???

Kurt
07-04-2008 01:12 AM
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rotormonkey
Senior Heliman
Location: Ottawa, ON - Canada

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Yea first time is a rush???

The adrenaline start's pumping, your heart is pounding, your breathing quickens, you sweat a little, and you haven't even left the ground yet

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I came home excited and told my wife and she told me "Way to go honey. You're such a dork."

Hahahaha!! My wife says exactly the same thing to me all the time!
07-04-2008 01:55 PM
 
 
artimus
Veteran
Location: Puyallup WA

 Bravo.....your hooked now....no turning back
I had this same experience just one year ago.....but it was with a Trex450 ...the rush is addictive . I now own 7 helis and fly everyday at lunch and after work.....I am doing 3D flying and help setup newbies helis at our field.

AMA #890376..... Flying Helis is like sex ...you dont have to be good at it to enjoy it....
07-04-2008 06:05 PM
 
 
Papa Sal
Senior Heliman
Location: Reno, Nevada- USA

Congrats Brother! way-2-go Remember what nmrs says" Two mistakes high"........and....BREATHE

Ahhhhh Master Card...."priceless"!
07-04-2008 08:41 PM
 
 
albertrivera
Heliman
Location: Fresno, ca USA

What a freaking rush!

Yea it's great, I did a lot of flying this weekend & Im realy pumped up, Im doing more & more foward flying, I can approach nose in & land or hover without a problem in any orientation, Im flying higher & faster than I have ever done before, & yes, Im in this for life, ain't no stopping me man. as I fly more and more I feel more comfortable, & I can recover without even thinking about it. I used up 1 1/2 gallons of fuel in 4 days.
07-07-2008 07:42 PM
 
 
artimus
Veteran
Location: Puyallup WA

Now remember not to get too cocky.....because the ground always has a way of humbling you.

AMA #890376..... Flying Helis is like sex ...you dont have to be good at it to enjoy it....
07-07-2008 08:36 PM
 
 
albertrivera
Heliman
Location: Fresno, ca USA

Oh now, Im not going to go crazy, I just want to fly & have fun, I don't like to be a hot dog
07-07-2008 08:44 PM
 
 
Bodywerks
Heliman
Location: tucson, AZ

I think I might have been truly bitten by the heli bug. To date, the furthest I ever git into helis was a blade CP. After I got it, but before I flew it, I was told that if I can hover that, I can hover anything - they were eluding to the fact that it was a turd...and they were right!!! I spent more time tuning it and setting it up than I did flying it. But I was able to hover it, even nose-in. Still, it just wasn't fun - it seemed like I was fighting it more than anything else.
Then my buddy just handed me the tx to his Trex500E, set up by the MAN himself(Krause)...SCHWINGGGG!!! OMG, what a difference a heading-lock gyro makes! And the heli was so neutrally stable in a hover, I felt like I was ready for some forward flight!
Anyway, I am considering a Trex600N, because it just looks like the ticket as far as a heli you can grow on, but I have a friend with a near-new Raptor 50 for cheap, so I guess I have a decision to make.
I have 20+ years under my belt with planes and can hold my own, so I hope helis 'click' for me the way planes did. Even if not, I'll be happy to get forward/backward flight and maybe rolls figured out in the first year.
07-13-2008 11:54 PM
 
 
03fomoco
Senior Heliman
Location: Tucson AZ

TREX and Raptor

Hey,
Yeah Jeff's 500 is nice, I will try and bring out the 600Rex and the R50 and let you try them. Right now a R50 can be done for .50 cents on the dollar and to date is still a machine that will take you miles, we all saw what Jason and Alan could do with Raptors. The Rex is a way more technical machine and you can't hide your mistakes like a Raptor. The Rex will also never be out flown by about 95 percent of heli pilots, I KNOW I AM IN THAT GROUP. BUMMER.

Sadly Sponsored by: VISA, MASTERCARD, and Bank of America
07-14-2008 05:32 AM
 
 
Bodywerks
Heliman
Location: tucson, AZ

Raptor is a done deal. Now you have to hook me up with servos, guvna, gyro, etc...at $.50 on the dollar
07-14-2008 08:16 PM
 
 
billm
Key Veteran
Location: Liberty Lake, WA

Welcome to my 12 step heli holic program.
Buy one and you need another.

My name is Billm. Cough, and I'm a Heli Holic
07-15-2008 03:41 AM
 
 
ruddernate
Senior Heliman
Location: sulphur,Ok.

the rush

hey , you guys need to mail me some heli's to try. lol. i got my tiny eagle 50 to hover for a few seconds and was so psyched by the rush i had to have a 450. waiting on radio system. can't wait! i know the 450's still a small bird but it's twice as stable on the sim to what i have been flying. it's crazy that people like me usually start on the smaller impossible to fly heli's. the difficulty, and the rush was enought to get me hooked. can't wait to get to where you guys are at.
07-15-2008 05:55 PM
 
 
heli nutts
New Heliman
Location: vancouver, Wa

Rush isnt the word for it.

I tryed ff flight a couple of times and wound up in an inverted landing.
But this last saterday my insructor hooked me up on a trainer cord and WOW tryed some go strait out and back and some simple turns and within a couple of tanks of fuel i was ripping around all over the place.
There aint nothing like that first compleated circut without a crash.
Cant wait till this weekend to do it again.

600N all thay way BABBY
07-15-2008 10:02 PM
 
 
nmrs
Senior Heliman
Location: Austin, TX

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Now remember not to get too cocky.....because the ground always has a way of humbling you.

Yeah so I keep learning. Got to the point that I was flying multiple batteries of FF Figure 8's without stopping, but always with nose turning away from me at the ends. Decided to try reversing it the other day. Bent main shaft, stripped main gear, bent tail boom, broken main blade...

450 se v2
07-15-2008 11:17 PM
 
 
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