Time to update my blog again! So I have been flying for 7 years now. Joined our local club. Have been the PR rep, the president, and now the vice president. I would definitely encourage anyone to join a club if possible as there are so many benefits when doing so. There is so much knowledge available from other members and someone always willing to help you out! It also opens your eyes to new possibilities. Since I have gotten in to this hobby I have met such amazing people- not only in person but online as well. Their generosity never ceases to amaze me. I have flown airplanes, edf jets, electric helis, quad copters and r/c cars. But I still enjoy flying planes the most! Especially off water. It combines 2 things I love, being at the lake and flying r/c. I'm definitely still addicted to this hobby, but since we bought a building across the street with a hobby store and a garage I no longer have a problem with where to store or aquire any more planes...Continue Reading

Hi all- Been quite a while since I added here. there just isn't enough time to keep up with everything. My hobby is now a full blown addiction although I still spend way less time flying than I would like. Hence the micro planes which can easily be flown anywhere almost- and just as fun to fly. I never thought I would fly ccpm helis or jets but now I fly both! Or at least I hover! Lake flying is still my favorite way to fly and last year I purchased a one of a kind seaplane called the Madge III. It was built/designed by Brent Reusch who passed away 1 1/2 years ago. I purchased it from his son after my Electric Neptune took an uncommanded nose dive 6 minutes into its maiden flight. So I was going more and more electric but this was such a beautiful plane and the history exceptional. And I had at least a dozen wonderful flights with it-Nitro, FM, balsa and monokote-just a blast from the past!!!

Normal Mode THC: 0,25,50,75,85
Idle 1 Throttle curve: flat 85% (this gives my heli a 4500 HS with no load)

Pitch Curves
Normal: 35,42,50,75,100
Idle 1: 0,25,50,75,100 with a pitch curve or -11,0,11

Thought I should update my blog. I have more planes and helis but have flown less this year than any other! The weather was either raining, too windy or I was too busy. Thankfully I started flying CP helis- which I really thought I never would! Whenever I flew on the sim I just ended up crashing so I figured I was condemned to fixed pitch. But after many discussions with heli pilots in our club I took the plunge and bought a Blade SR -which now has 85 flights (because I could fly in my yard, at the lake, in the park) and only one mishap when the tail motor died! So bitten now by the heli bug I have gone and purchased a used Trex 500- which I hopefully will be able to fly next year- weather permitting. Plus I have numerous plane projects to complete- the number 1 being an electric Neptune to fly at the lake next year. So wish me luck to find time and energy- and motivation!

So here I am 5 years later and technology improvements have proven to be a downfall for me. With all the new micro technology and spread spektrum at affordable prices it is getting harder to just say NO! Our club decided last winter to try indoor flying so I began surfing the forums to find the best indoor plane. The only one that had no negatives was the Parkzone Vapor. I thought it was damn ugly but the masses said this was the one. So $200 later I pulled out this so called excuse for a plane with its saraan wrap skin and toothpick like structure and figured I'd been had. I tried to fly it in my 12x12 furniture filled rooms and was disappointed i couldn't fly it inside! Although I crashed it a hundred times without breaking anything! So I took it to work where there was more room and what do you know- awesome! This thing could fly so slow and precise or could fly faster by moving the wing forward. The 2 guys with Vapors at our flies seemed to get the most airtime as you could fly 25 min on a MCX battery. I take my Vapor to the lake and on nice calm nights we go for a walk together around the trailer park. And we always have to stop and explain what makes this thing fly! I was never interested in Helis, but flying the vapor wasn't enough so I had to buy a CX2, and then a MCX. Then Parkzone came out with their 4 ch ultra micro Sukhoi, and then the MSR-which I had to have and then the Mustang P51d-aaaagh will it ever end! Now they have come out with the 4 site and a twin heli and and and and it seems to never end! How will I ever survive. One plane at a time-one plane at a time!

Never having blogged before I thought I would post something for those who have inquiring minds! I'm not sure when my addiction started as I started building and flying when I was about 8 years old- progressing from plastic static models to HO scale trains and on to hand control flight with the ever popular cox .049. I found balsa to be a good medium as you could crash , reglue with 5 min epoxy and fly again. It was a challenge to find ways to take off by yourself- when there was no-one to hand launch for you. Radio control was a distant dream as startup in the hobby in the 70's was like $1000 bucks and as a result I never did try any further. Until one day my wife and I bought a house right across from the hobby store. I was 35 years old. I managed NOT to get sucked into the store until I was 43- and this was just a fluke. The hobby store owner was having a garage sale and there was a lanier seabird-flying boat, complete with AM Kraft radio system for $80. I looked at it and decided I didn't have the time so I forgot about it for the rest of the day until we went for drinks that night at our local pub. I told my wife about what I had found and she said "why didn't you buy it? Are you going to miss $80?" So as it was only around 6pm on a Fri eve and was within walking distance I decided I would go and see if it was still there> It was! And now the tail was broke so I offered the owner $60- which he accepted and the rest is history-I have been addicted ever since. more to come later