Sar
Elite Veteran
Location: Kingston, NY
| Here's a question for you guys, it's kind of a weird touchy feely one 
I'm in the NE, we've had a lot of humidity and hot temps lately, so I've been blaming it on that, but not really I don't think, not sure.
I love R/C helicopters, I think they are awesome even the cruddiest kits are still a good example of some serious engineering for a toy. When I watch my buddy Barbary fly I so wish I could fly like that but I'm still pretty new, maybe on Gallon 10 or 11.
Lately though I've been feeling... non-excited about flying. I can fly FF easily and do loops, etc, although recently my rolls have been turning out VERY badly. The first BAD roll I did(after MANY successful ones) was a non-idle-up and it cost me about $200, the next one I tried after that was okay, and the 3rd one I almost lost it again, the autamaton came out in me and I recovered just FEET above the ground, Barbary can attest to this looked cool, but no recollection of how I recovered it, just kicked in.
Like I said, I love heli's but the drive isn't there to actually fly lately. I plan on going to the rochester FF, to see curtis fly, because I want to see it in person, I have a friend who just got into heli's and I want to help him get going with his stuff and hoping on the side that maybe seeing whqat other people are doing will help rebuild my excitement for the hobby.
I seem to be the type that gets into a hobby, loves it, but then wants to try something else. I did electronics, did some stuff at it, and love it, but no enthusiasm for it although I get enthused on the occasional project such as my heli-lights. I did lasers for a few years, built a couple from scratch, enjoyed it, and I LOVE lasers(so f'ing cool) but I don't really want to continue playing with them, and of course computers I kept growing in those, once I built a 32 processor cluster and ran it for a while, I became completely disinterested in computers.
Right now I am building a camera system for my R60, I am going into work tomorrow to mill out some 'feet' for the camera rig. This will be something new, I'll enjoy it for a while but.. What's wrong? I can't seem to get addicted to a hobby for longer than learning how it works, building it, and then bailing out and doing something else.. This sucks. I love my heli, have a TON of money invested in the hobby(for me 3k is a lot) and I don't know what I'd RATHER be doing, other than flying. It's almost like getting your drivers license, you drive your butt off for 2 years, then you enjoy it, but could live without it... 
I've been wanting to do helicopters ever since I started flying planks at age 15 or so. A buddy flew gliders, I wanted power and built a .049 which never flew real great, then some cessna kit which sucked, then a trainer ARF, then a glider, then a F15 .40 size with a .65 Magnum(tons of tail lead) and then a fun-fly barn-door control surfaces type plane, then one of those junk fixed pitched hobby lobby deals(sport 500?) After 13 years I have a heli, which is what I wanted to begin with.
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Jon |
. Hey maybe this will make you feel better about flying heheh
have been kicked out of our field (a runway sometimes used by cropdusters) because the jet guys that show up about 5 times a year got in a fight with the cropdusters, somehow thinking they had more right to be there than the cropdusters, which by the way are only there maybe 2 or 3 sundays a year. I found out where the gang flys now and that one of them got a heli so I'm going this weekend and I think teaching someone should help with interest too.
(how bizzare... hehe just kidding) Problem with being a JOATMON I guess. I like to know a lot about everything.
