Toysrme

lol air hogs. i remember when they came out mini fliers would gut their air powered engine out, port them and hook them to plastic coke bottles to put in mini aircraft.
many of the trainers mostly fly themselves. because of the huge anhedral (negative) or dihedral of the wings, they have a natural tendancy to balance themselves to level flight (depending on the throttle applied) they're also quite slow, not aerobatic and their flat bottom wings give them massive lift.
i would greatly encourage anyone that's been intrested at some point to find a local flying club / site. most have a policy to let beginners test fly a club built / owned trainer 3 times on a buddy box so an experianced pilot can do everything and can take control from your radio by letting go of a stick.
Pay your $100-125 AMA fee a year and you get 250 grand in insurance if you ---- someone or something up lol


besides the trainers you can get pretty cheap now ready to fly, or almost ready to fly so there is no emotional attachment. if it breaks eh. and the typical crashes on newb trainers you cut out what's broken and glue new in.

J-SMITH69

air hogs are awesome, i play with them in the house.

if you got a lot of wind you can make them backflip and do some cool dives.

you just gotta get a little wind and crank the trim to one side and give it throttle and it'll do a cool dive

the helicopter is fun inside

Toysrme

Werd I just bought a second heli I liked my Walkera so much can't wait for it to get here next week. Axe CP. I'm gunna ditch the stock radio's and put my better non chinese ---- in it. Im stoked Now I have two working heli's and have enough batteries to fly constantly while other packs charge woohoo!

Toysrme

na u don't want one. my dad bought both of them for him to use as trainers. they're aweful. lazyest thinge ver. they'll fly themselves take off to landing. pretty boring, he took 96oz of fuel in his once and i had to two him up for an endurance competition. he landed after 2 hours and 32oz of fuel :\
hehehe i flew my first somethin extra in that until it finally dead sticked at 30-35 minutes lmao. admittantly alot of that was spent hovering/flying backwards in wind, and doing inverted hovering hah. still more fun that puttering around in a seniorita.
(they're awesome trainers but dude... that's like a plane for people that MUST learn on their own and don't want to start with a sailplane) get you a 4-channel .40 sized plane and put a nice 2-stroke .45-52 on it, or a nice .61-91 4-stroke. that way when you step up to something else you've got a nice broken in engine to play with


trainers are dull. which is why if you have r/c flight experiance that doesn't blow you skip them for a low wing semi/fully symetrical wing. or atleast build a 4-channel semi-semmytrical plane and take all but maybe 3-4* of the dihedral out of the wing so they don't self-center.

Toysrme

ya it's possible, especially with a good sim (real flight, clearview, etc).
what kinda flying space do you have?

Bone1

or "buddy box" at the local RC Club.

Foowee

Here's my Kyosho Gee Bee Z:

It's got a magnum.91rfs.

If any of you kids want to learn and are going to be in cincy. I have a buddy box and a phoenix sonic25 that I use to teach people...