Dick Dastardly
New member
Hello Flite Testers.
Here is my short story:
I'm new, really new. About 5-months ago I bought a small cheap 2-channel indoor heli and drone. A week later I bought a flight sim, and a used-like-new Rise racing drone RTF from Tower. I flew it 6 or so times at a local park. However, it's been too wet for weeks. I already shorted an esc landing it in the wet grass, $30 lesson learned.
I then bought a T-Rex 190 heli and a Spectrum 8 channel radio with future plans for planes and a larger heli. I don't have the room to fly the mini rex indoors too much, but again, the grass is too wet. I just crashed it inside, breaking a servo which just happens to be on back-order. So, the baby rex is grounded for now too.
Then in late November, I bought an FMS Super EZ trainer. I haven't flown it yet. It's 48 inch wingspan makes it a little too big to fly at the local park, so I set it up, but have yet to fly it. After realizing the size, I bought an E-flite UMX Timber. Again, I have yet to fly it. The long wet grass and wind will present a landing danger for my new $130 plane, especially in the hands of this newbie. So, I bought floats thinking they will make wet grass take-offs and landings possible and may protect the prop. I know it will make flying more difficult, but the plane has AS3X stability control capacity, which may help. I may be compelled to try flying the float-able Timber in the swamp-like-grass if I can get a near windless day. But I fear I will crash it expensively.
So, last week I found FT, and am awaiting delivery of a spitfire without power-pack and the mini mustang/Corsica combo with a single F-pack. I planed on building and crashing the minis as sacrificial lambs; let them take the crashes and help me learn building basics. I thought I would try to let the "factory-planes" sit for a while. I find building anything to be fun.
I came to this form to find building tips and incentives on how to do my first build, the mini mustang. In the process, I found out something that seems to have changed everything. That being these new crazy registration rules for aircraft over 250g. I don't know if I want to essentially become a pilot. For me, these are like toys, a hobby; but now it seems the !$%^*%^ government has ruined it. Someone must be fighting for more reasonable rules, from what I have seen, they seem to be out of control oppressive. They have essentially criminalized much of the hobby that existed before 12/17/2017.
These rules mean I need to register everything I have except the mini heli and the Timber, which is under 250g even with battery and floats. No wonder why it is selling out constantly. Even the FT minis are overweight it seems.
So, are there any plans to bring in a mini under 250g? Certainly, I am not the first to consider this. New plans for non-outlaw minis?
Is there any way of shaving weight from the current FT minis so they don't need a government number? I'll fly outlaw if I need. The plane police aren't keeping me on the ground, but I would rather not be forced into a life of crime.
Thanks, I hope I don't sound ridiculous, but I can't help it.
- Dick
Here is my short story:
I'm new, really new. About 5-months ago I bought a small cheap 2-channel indoor heli and drone. A week later I bought a flight sim, and a used-like-new Rise racing drone RTF from Tower. I flew it 6 or so times at a local park. However, it's been too wet for weeks. I already shorted an esc landing it in the wet grass, $30 lesson learned.
I then bought a T-Rex 190 heli and a Spectrum 8 channel radio with future plans for planes and a larger heli. I don't have the room to fly the mini rex indoors too much, but again, the grass is too wet. I just crashed it inside, breaking a servo which just happens to be on back-order. So, the baby rex is grounded for now too.
Then in late November, I bought an FMS Super EZ trainer. I haven't flown it yet. It's 48 inch wingspan makes it a little too big to fly at the local park, so I set it up, but have yet to fly it. After realizing the size, I bought an E-flite UMX Timber. Again, I have yet to fly it. The long wet grass and wind will present a landing danger for my new $130 plane, especially in the hands of this newbie. So, I bought floats thinking they will make wet grass take-offs and landings possible and may protect the prop. I know it will make flying more difficult, but the plane has AS3X stability control capacity, which may help. I may be compelled to try flying the float-able Timber in the swamp-like-grass if I can get a near windless day. But I fear I will crash it expensively.
So, last week I found FT, and am awaiting delivery of a spitfire without power-pack and the mini mustang/Corsica combo with a single F-pack. I planed on building and crashing the minis as sacrificial lambs; let them take the crashes and help me learn building basics. I thought I would try to let the "factory-planes" sit for a while. I find building anything to be fun.
I came to this form to find building tips and incentives on how to do my first build, the mini mustang. In the process, I found out something that seems to have changed everything. That being these new crazy registration rules for aircraft over 250g. I don't know if I want to essentially become a pilot. For me, these are like toys, a hobby; but now it seems the !$%^*%^ government has ruined it. Someone must be fighting for more reasonable rules, from what I have seen, they seem to be out of control oppressive. They have essentially criminalized much of the hobby that existed before 12/17/2017.
These rules mean I need to register everything I have except the mini heli and the Timber, which is under 250g even with battery and floats. No wonder why it is selling out constantly. Even the FT minis are overweight it seems.
So, are there any plans to bring in a mini under 250g? Certainly, I am not the first to consider this. New plans for non-outlaw minis?
Is there any way of shaving weight from the current FT minis so they don't need a government number? I'll fly outlaw if I need. The plane police aren't keeping me on the ground, but I would rather not be forced into a life of crime.
Thanks, I hope I don't sound ridiculous, but I can't help it.
- Dick
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