Hello everybody! Decided to join the Flitetest forums, since Im a big fan of the show
so whats a better way to introduce myself than telling you all about my achievements? Well of course to tell you about my mistakes
So I started flying RC planes around April, it all started when I built my RC Hovercraft, powered by 70mm EDF unit, and well... to keep this short, I thought to myself "what if I put wings on this?". So I spent few weeks in February in the internet searching for information and I finally came into the conclusion that it would be insane to try and start this flying hobby with 70mm EDF as my motor. But I did.
I choose the one plane I found most people had put 70mm EDFs on, the F22 Raptor. And the one that caught my eye the most was the RcPowers F22 design and I tried to make one myself (short on money, so I just made my own plans). So I got the foam, the motor and all the electronics and started to put my plane together.
I finally got the plane together and it actually flew
I was happily surprised about that, but the sheer amount of power was too much for me and I ended up smashing it quite a bit, but I knew that this was not going to be a easy path. And finally it came to a final stop when my, many many times repaired and nurtured, plane finally made its final 100kmh inverted full throttle nosedive to the ground.
And after getting over the crash it was time to make my another mistake. I decided to buy a normal propeller motor and replace the broken EDF with that. So I bought a motor that was as near the specs of the EDF motor (not good idea, since EDFs are inefficient, prop motors are not) so I got this: RcTimer 3536-1250kv on a 10x6 prop and 4s pack producing 750W of power, and you can imagine what that can do in hands of noobie
Well as you could have guessed I did not get proper flight time with my new plane, it was just too darn powerful! with EDF I didnt get used to such torque nor torque roll effect. After realizing that I was pretty down, I had thought that I could handle the advanced stuff, but then I realized that I couldnt. So After a week or so I decided upon what to do next...
I built a 32" BYOB, BackYard Outdoor Bipe. It was really the plane that I finally was able to fly for a whole battery pack without crashing it once! And the flight characteristics, oh I fell in love with the slowfly I could dod with it
It was by then that I realized I couldnt turn back, I was hooked! That little plane really was my "new first plane".
After that I have built a Piaget aerobatic plane and tried out some 3D with it and a 1200mm wigspan FireFly and a trainer for my friend. I have also learned so much about this hobby this summer and I have so much plans, so many planes to build, so many ideas to try out.
And when Im not flying, Im on the forums (RcPowers and RcGroups) learning from the Rc community, since I have no friends who fly or Rc clubs around here, so forums are the only place I can seek tutoring and advices and now that I understand somethings, even give out some
Oh, and also Im a big fan of Flitetest on youtube! one of my favorite Rc shows and definitely the most entertaining one!
I hope the community on these forums is just as great as their show is