So I was happily flying my LoLo for a year or so. I didn't have much time to do so as I had three small kids. But I was able to enjoy my labor of love for about a year until as my previous story explained, I crashed it in the fall of 2011.
What to do next? Back to the inter-webs I go looking for a new challenge and oh boy did I find one. If I say "Microstar 2000" and you either drool with excitement or shudder in fear then you know where I'm headed. If you ask "what the heck is a Microstar 2000" then go here:
http://mstar2k.com/microstar-2000
So it was winter 2011 and I had no plane. What would any logical person do? Build another plane fool! What did I do? I built a radio even though, even though, I already owned a DX6i.....AND.....I didn't have a plane. Go figure.
I went about researching and looking and thinking about what I wanted in a radio. Now the DX6i was OK, but I just had a hard time with the two hand thing. I can't play piano, I'm not ambidextrous and my left hand really only helps me button my shirt. Otherwise I don't use it so it seemed silly that it should control my rudder and throttle. Again, if you are with me on the Microstar 2000 adventure then you know I'm heading towards single stick. Yes I remember single stick radios. Long story short, between the Yahoo! message groups, Andy Horka and the Microstar 2000 I converted and old Kraft single stick radio into a fully functional 9-channel DSM2 beast. I spent 3 months building it, learning the programming and trying it out on the simulators.
After all that, I just couldn't get the hang of it and wound up selling it.
So after a whole winter, the perfect building season there I sat. With my DX6i, a simulator, and no plane.