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Mike from Ohio here. I also found this forum from RCGroups. Currently fly micro helis along with a Heli-Max 1SQ and a Blade MQX. Will be building an Armattan when all ordered parts arrive. I use a DX6i tx.

 

I was just looking at the DroneFlyers Beginners forum/page/whatever it's called. It made me wonder...

I got my first heli in January - a 4-channel co-ax (Blade). In Febuary I got a v911 fixed pitch single-rotor heli. Then in mid-April I got a micro-quad. So, all tolled, it's a bit over 4 months since I picked up my first RC transmitter.

Flying the FP heli is mostly just trying to prevent it from going where it shouldn't go. It is so much easier to make the quad go where I want it to go, so maybe that's what makes me feel less beginner-ish - just better hardware.

My question is - what constitutes a beginner, what's the definition? I feel like a rank beginner often enough, whenever I do something stupid with the copter. But then sometimes here lately I feel like I'm able to handle it pretty good (short periods, I suppose). How long should I carry the handle "newby" (or worse - "noob")?

 

Hi,
I have been looking at getting in to rc flying for a year or so now. Not much excited me until I started reading about FPV which I thought was fantastic.
Never flown an RC anything..ever. So will take the advice I have read and buy a Syma x1 and take it from there.

My big mission this year is to start building an Aerial Photography business, so any advice on a good entry level multicopter which allows for a GoPro camera and FPV, I would love to hear it.

Cheers

 

Hey! Found this through some search for a quad. Anyway I have been flying awhile and have alot of knowledge in multirotors!

 

I am interested in getting started, but have much research to do. I live in a hilly and very windy area, so expect flying to be a challenge. On top of that, most of my land is wooded - I can imagine a Charley Brown scenario where my machine is stuck up in a tree...

 

Just found out about this website through RCGroups. I've been flying quads for a year and a half now, I have an FPV quad (FlipFPV), a micro quad (8" BlueSkyRC mini frame), and a hexacopter (DJIF550). I help out at AeroQuad on the software side of things, and have also picked up on OpenLRSng and the Evvaldis STM32F1 brushless gimbal controller. I love open source projects and while I'm not the best programmer in the world, I do what I can to help (usually the remedial stuff so the big brains can have more time to develop real features =P).

Anyway, just sayin hi! I'm in the Portland, Oregon area, where we have a pretty good UAV scene. Check out DroneEnthusiast.com, we meet up once a month to fly. Hoping to meet more often now that we have more members (the most recent sunny meeting, we had >20 copters/planes in a pile, and probably about 8-12 pilots. Lots of fun!).

 

hey all, my name is Dan and i am a total newb. i had a friend back at an old job that got me interested in RC planes... i eventually got one (forget the model, one of those prop-pusher V-tails from hobbyzone), enjoyed it, my son wrecked it on his first try, i took a break for a year or two and im getting back into it. i got myself a hobbyzone champ... its fun but omg is it light, forget flying in any wind at all. right now i am starting to focus on multicopters and FPV.... =D i've yet to get my first quad, im thinking of either an RC Eye One or a Hubsan Quads X4 or whatever its called lol. i recently discovered Simplecopter's tricopter DIY stuff, and that is what my eventual goal is. im not so into acro, so getting something that has long flight times and decent FPV range is my ultimate goal. im an electronics tech by trade and love building stuff.

 

Hello!

Followed a link from RC groups to get here. I have been flying model aircraft for a long time and basically play with anything that flys. I have a few micro quads and am working on getting a mini trimed out. I also have a few helis. I am also the district 10 rep for the Jet Pilots Organization and play with some big EDF aircraft. I guess you could call me semi-pro RC level as I do work one day a week at the local Hobby Town USA where the running joke is that I can fly an EDF at 130mph but can't keep a buggy going straight at 30mph. When I'm not doing that I teach GED classes and write short stories.

A word of caution to those of you looking to do pro pictures - if you are charging for the photos or vids, you fall under the jurisdiction of the FAA and will need all sorts of licensure to keep doing it. As long as it is a hobby (you're not making money) you fall under the jurisdiction of the AMA. At least that's how we got around it with turbines.

Dave

 

Electric Ducted Fans are going 130 now!!!! Getting closer to my Kero-Jet speed of just under 180mph, twin AMT Pegasus HP's in a MiboJets A-10 "Warthog".....yes over powered, and no the "pylon gear" (missiles, guns, etc.) has to be off for that speed to reduce drag. And "NO" I do not do fast turns at full speed, I like to keep the wings on......

Welcome BTW

 

Been a cameraman since 1969 which is the year I was hoping to train to fly choppers after having been a passenger in a Bell over the northern woods in Manitoba but couldn't put the $15,000.00 needed for flight school in Abbotsford BC. edit just got email confirmation its been shipped
Well Now I've bought my own chopper ...well a DJI Phantom which hopefully shipped to day from Calgary.
I plan to sling a Sony RX100 under the Phantom and expand my video and photo business,

 

I work for webman as a moderator over in his hearth.com forum. I just dropped in to check out the new venture. Never owned an R/C in my life but it looks like time to give a quad a try. All of my airtime was 1054 hours in the back of the little hummer in my avitar. I will have to get used to flying and standing on the ground at the same time.

Now, about signing up for those drawings...

 

At 130 we are on the fast average side. We (my dad built it, I fly it.) got that in a 85% Bruce Tharp Reaction, a rather draggy airframe. Cleaner airframes are hitting 170 - 180 fairly regularly.

 

I am a hearth.com member and I want to wish Craig good luck with his new site.

What are some things someone with zero knowledge or experience do to get started in this hobby?
Are there IPod compatible cameras?

 

Another big hello from Norway.

I'm 36 years old, and living on the countryside where I have great space flying whatever I would like
-Have 5 quad/hex, and are now in the process of building the most complex for now, a 1000mm hex with Naza-m and gps.

I've been flying around with multirotor for about a year, and are defiantly still a newbie, and learning new things every minute in this hobby!

 

Hi, My name is Chris Mid west stateside. Always had a hankering for the RC stuff, never got into it, but spent many years as a competitor in control line ( you know where ya keep spinning in a circle until ya fall down, lol)did ok in the combat and stunt divisions, anyway I find the copters interesting after a couple acquaintances got one a piece and proceeded to make them into smaller pieces.

 

Hi folks . . . have known Craig for a bit . . . figured I would check out his latest endeavor.