crash_me_over

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}{unter....Your a gas!!! Ok now......altogether now.....BIG HUG!!!


Now...doesn't that feel good?????

dbow

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lol

I do tend to be a little anal about things sometimes, I said sometimes...lol


Dbow

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Hmmmm.....I also suffer from that same problem! I tease some of the friends I work with about me having a disease. They look at me with wide eyes and say....OH NO.....HOW TERRIBLE!!! Then they ask what disease do I have. Of course now that I have the hook in their mouth and am ready to have some fun.....I say:

Yes...the doctor did extensive testing and found that I am in a rut. They have this somewhat dazed look like their thinking in their minds......Ok....so he's in a rut.....how does that qualify as a disease? Then I say.....Yes...the doctor said that when people get into a rut.....then they get rutitis. Again....the look in their faces is a sight to behold. Ohhhhhhh.....they say......now thinking that the doctor must be really talking about something really serious. Then they begin to ask questions like: Well.....what can the doctor do for you? I then start from the beginning and say: Well....when you get into a rut.....and then you get rutitis....then the doctor said I have to get a rutectomey. Now there eyes are really wide.....just for a second as they see me begin to smile and they know they have been had! It's all in great fun and usually will add quite a bit of fun to a sometimes boring occasion. However....my doctor said not to tell anyone about this as they to may get into a rut!

Hey you guys!!!! You all have a great day and a very enjoyable Holiday! You to grampi. I doubt that he can hear me over the roar of his new toy!!!!

Perminator-RCU

Grampi's problem just makes it obvious - cars are a 2-dimentional *****. Airplanes are waaaay cooler.

}{unter

are the airplanes really a lot easyer than nitro cars???

i really wanted a plane but no where to fly here


}{unter

crash_me_over

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Well.....sort of. AS in nitro "anything".....if you have an electric starter it sure makes it easy to get going. I use to flip props by hand for years. Used a chicken stick all the time. I was real proud of my ability to get my engines to fire...."muy pronto"....with my ole trusty chicken stick. Then.....I left the hobby for nearly 10 years due to injuries. I had sold all of my RC stuff thinking I would never fly again. To my delight.....I returned once again to airplanes and ready to use my engine starting prowess on my new fleet of engines. Shhhheeeeeesssssshhhhhh!!!!! I couldn't start some of my engines to save my life. I flicked....and flicked....and flicked the prop until I was all but wore out. I began to think I should have stayed out of the hobby since I couldn't get my motors to run. Well......a short story made long....I "FINALLY" broke down and bought an electric starter and MAN O MAN......was I a happy ex-prop-flipper-guy! I had gone from the volkswagen to the caddillac in one easy swoop. Because I live in the country I had never really been around alot of the high tech stuff I had read about in the magazines....like an electric starter! Now keep in mind.....that was just the engines! As most of us have read grampi's post about his excitement in getting his RC10GT engine fired up. That's about how excited I was in owning an electric starter and seeing how easy it was to get those engines to fire.

As for "Flying the airplanes"??? That's another story!

dbow

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I wouldnt say that planes are easier, I wouldnt say that they are really harder either but it depends on how you look at it.

Planes do require a little more effort and attention than getting into cars in general. When you make a mistake with the planes it tends to be a lot more costly than with the cars.
We dont really need to get into the finances of the hobbies because both are expensive. Each can empty your pockets quickly depending on how addicted you get...lol

The initial starting point for a plane would be the plane and all of the starting equipment. These days ARFs make it very easy to put a tainer together in under 10 to 15 hours or even less in some cases. You would also need an AMA membership and an instructor.

For the cars you need nothing but the equipment and a parking lot, and of course a little knowledge or help from a friend.

Its my opinion that the Planes take a little more attention and effort, but I think most find that its so much more rewarding and there are so many planes out there to look forward to.

I see you live in NC Hunter, what area?

I have family in Charlotte and there are quite a few flying fields around Charlotte and NC in general.

I would certainly recommend to anyone to get involved with the planes. But this is one that you cannot go alone with. Its a must to join up with a club and have a instructor take you through the process of learning to fly. In most cases that includes engine tuning getting the plane ready and much much more.
Mistakes in the air are much more costly than with the cars, but with an instrcutor you should succeed with ease.


Dbow

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I would certainly recommend to anyone to get involved with the planes. But this is one that you cannot go alone with. Its a must to join up with a club and have a instructor take you through the process of learning to fly. In most cases that includes engine tuning getting the plane ready and much much more.
Mistakes in the air are much more costly than with the cars, but with an instructor you should succeed with ease.


Dbow


Dbow is 100% correct. I remember learning how to fly where my friend (he was the experienced one) would get the airplane up in the air....3 mistakes high....get it leveled off in flight.....then hand me the radio so I could try my hand at it. Well.....needless to say that was nerve racking. I would get that plane into a nose dive and before he could blink it would become a jigsaw puzzle right before our eyes. Trouble was....I wanted to try and correct my mistake and would hang on to the radio to long before handing it back to him. He was my "buddy".....the guy who was kind enough to try and help me fly. Being poor then....neither he nor I could afford the same equipment (radios) so we did the Ohhhh SH*T thing when gravity won out. Later on....as I was able to afford a "buddy box".....connecting two radios together so the trainer can get the plane to altitude and the trainee can wait until it's there. Then....once it was leveled off....the trainer could push a switch on his radio sending the controls to the buddy box that the trainee was holding and now flying with. WHAT A NEAT CONCEPT!!!!! That is how I taught others to fly and since then my airplanes would go home in one piece.

WHEW.....You guys falling asleep yet?

grampi

R/C planes is an area I can expertly comment on. I have over 20 years flying experince, flying everything from trainers to ducted fans. I have been an instructor in several clubs.

Are planes cooler than cars? I guess it depends on what defines "cool" to you. Both have their own brand of appeal. There were several reasons I got out of R/C planes. Expense and building time are a couple of good reasons. One fact of life is if you fly 'em, you're gonna crash 'em, and it doesn't matter how good of a pilot you are. A lot of things go wrong which are beyond your control. I wasn't that crazy about building, so that was a strike against planes for me.

Some of the other reasons I got out were clubs and AMA. If you don't have your own piece of property large enough to fly off of, you will have to join a club, and along with that comes club and AMA dues. All clubs require you to have your AMA membership. Not to mention all the BS politicing that goes on in these clubs. I didn't want to deal with all this crap, I just wanted to fly. So I got out.

Are planes really easier than cars? No in fact they're much more complicated. I taught myself how to drive my car. Try to do that with planes and you're gonna go through a dozen or more planes, and several thousand bucks. You need an instructor to teach you how to fly.

Right now I'm enjoying the simplicity of being able to walk out my door, start my car, and drive. No commuting to the airfield, no club or AMA dues, no dealing with club politics, no crashing and having to spend an entire winter building new planes...........

crash_me_over

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One fact of life is if you fly 'em, you're gonna crash 'em, and it doesn't matter how good of a pilot you are.


I remember reading years ago.....a statement that read......You haven't flown until you've crashed. Well.....I have "flown" allot! Hence the nick name.....crash_me_over.


grampi......I am also enjoying the solitude of RC cars/airplanes and no BS. Living in the country has it's advantages!

}{unter

Oh i live in Rockingham its about i say 45 mins?? from charlotte or mabey a hour i really dont time it lol.... i got to charlotte a lot. I was really looking to see if they had a dirt track for my car there i know they have one track building in fayville (isnt spelled right). Do u know if they have a dirt track for stadium trucks in charlotte??. i havent seen one there yet i wasnt looking



Yea i think ill stick to my truck i really love it i just go out in my back yard and bash around its really fun i have a lot of land here but none for a AIRPLANE !!!!. i could bulldoze a lot of trees but then that would mess up my hunting . i think ill just stay here and enjoy my truck


}{unter

crash_me_over

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i think ill just stay here and enjoy my truck



}{unter....you could put some wings on your RC10GT and fly!

}{unter

haha i tryed to fly just not with no darn wings!!!!! why didnt you tell me this before I JUMPED THAT ramp going ALMOST FULL SPEED MABEY THEN i wouldnt be setting here waiting on PARTS TO COME !!!!!!!!! lol


btw they come tommorw, friday WOO HOO!!!!

}{unter

Just playing with ya crash

}{unter

Hey crash i started thinking about really what u said man ???? think about it has anyone tryed to really build wings for a car like that??? get a 3 channel radio and put another servo on it, Get it to full speed with the wings holding it down and then just pull back on the Rutter i think thats what u call it and really fly for a bit??? has anyone ever thought about this?? that would be some project to experiment with that would be really cool, at least mabey put wings on it to jump a ramp and it would go futher ?? wow crash u are putting ideas in my head lol. that would be cool though...... just a idea

speedoo

Here in Thailand some of the guys that have off road vehicles like the carb restrictors. It gives their car or truck much smoother acceleration and better traction off the line. Kind of like traction control on formula 1 cars. Since Bonefrost is at 6000 ft taking it off may be an excellent idea. Here is another article for you about this subject.

http://www.rc411.com/howto/tuncarbrest-01.html

Living here in Thailand and being from the USA all the other guys are Thai nationals in our race club and local hobby shop. They did help me a lot when I was first racing (3 years ago) but when it comes down to winning a race they will not give out their secrets (who would). For this information I use the Internet. Now they are asking me questions. Not all the information on the web will help you that comes with trial and error as not all vehicles, running surfaces and driving styles are the same. I use the INTERNET A LOT and can get most of my troubles figured by reading and trial and error. Hang in there and don't give up!!!

grampi

I'm still in the break-in period, so I have no idea what this truck can really do yet. The engine is still running rich and isn't making even close to full power. Though I don't race, I do want the truck to be fast. I will wait until I get it broken in and see how fast it is once I can lean it out for full power. I'm thinking by leaving the restrictor in will allow the engine to last longer too. Less power equals longer life.

crash_me_over

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}{unter....Now your cooking!!! Don't forget to get a tape of it as it flys away into the sunset!

}{unter

haha yea mabey i really will try to do that some day though as it seems to be a good project. For now i just got into nitro and am having a blast im gonna keep my car in one peace for right now

}{unter

crash_me_over

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Got my XXX-NT this week. It's still in the box at home. Not sure when I'll get time to start the break in. I'm looking forward to seeing how it does.

}{unter....Thanks for the link on the Rustler. You going to get one? Maybe Santa will bring you one?

}{unter

naa i dought i will i hear they really have no steering at ALL... That was gonna be my first car i had it on back order for about 2 months and then got tired of waiting the relese date kelp changing so i ended up with a rc10gt If i buy another one it will be a tmaxx or savage I just was thinking of go ahead and ordering the rustler but i got my rc10 and im happy ill wait till it blows up and then ill talk about another one

btw if u get one crash let me know how it runs and also give me a report on that xxx please i really wanna know how that baby runs.

}{unter

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I had thought about buying one at one time....but read so much good about the RC10GT's and the XXX-NT's that I changed my mind against it.

I'm kinda like grampi......I've flown airplanes for years....but am really enjoying the RC trucks now and I want to build a small stable of rigs that I can enjoy equally as well.

grampi

You guys recommend any good buggies?

}{unter

no sorry i dont mess with buggies if you find a good one let me know....

}{unter

crash_me_over

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grampi......here's a showdown read:


http://www.rcnitro.com/rn/articles/buggy_showd.asp

grampi

I just don't see where there's a lot of difference between stadium trucks and buggies, except for a lot of the buggies tend to be 4WD.