Moco
New member
Hi
I'm from the UK and have always been fascinated with flight; having made a return to RC cars over the last few years, with some success (largely because things are nowhere near as fragile and expensive in RC as they were!) I'm thinking about trying to give RC flight a go.
I know the principles, and I've played around with some of the free phone-based sims, but I'm after some advice about what to start with - FT seems right up my street, in a "build-crash-repair-repeat" kind of way.... and making the models cheap enough you're not precious about them...
UK stockists seem to have limited stock of the Speed Build Kits, though; in particular the Simple Cub, Scout and Storch, and the TT.
I also like the look of:
DR1
Sea Duck
Pietenpol
I guess what I'm asking is; what would be the best one to learn on; and is it worth finding/buying some foam board and making a cub/storch/scout from plans rather than SBK? Or are most of the kits easy to learn with and I should just pick one?
I'm looking at starting as 3 channel, but is that a good move, or should I just go 4 channel and accept I'm going to have a steeper learning curve?
I'm also looking at a Turnigy i6 or i6S after getting boggled with choices... hopefully those are OK choices?
Sorry to ask so many questions on a first post.
I'm from the UK and have always been fascinated with flight; having made a return to RC cars over the last few years, with some success (largely because things are nowhere near as fragile and expensive in RC as they were!) I'm thinking about trying to give RC flight a go.
I know the principles, and I've played around with some of the free phone-based sims, but I'm after some advice about what to start with - FT seems right up my street, in a "build-crash-repair-repeat" kind of way.... and making the models cheap enough you're not precious about them...
UK stockists seem to have limited stock of the Speed Build Kits, though; in particular the Simple Cub, Scout and Storch, and the TT.
I also like the look of:
DR1
Sea Duck
Pietenpol
I guess what I'm asking is; what would be the best one to learn on; and is it worth finding/buying some foam board and making a cub/storch/scout from plans rather than SBK? Or are most of the kits easy to learn with and I should just pick one?
I'm looking at starting as 3 channel, but is that a good move, or should I just go 4 channel and accept I'm going to have a steeper learning curve?
I'm also looking at a Turnigy i6 or i6S after getting boggled with choices... hopefully those are OK choices?
Sorry to ask so many questions on a first post.