I am curious if this happens to anyone else, but sometimes I lose interest in the hobby.
It's not like I decide to break up with it, sell off all my gear, and go a different direction. Just sometimes I drift away.
The last year has been that way for me. Which is weird, I've been mostly a solo type of pilot. I fly smaller electric planes. 3s 2200mah was about as big a battery as I ever needed.
You'd think that with Covid I'd have more free time to do activities that I don't need other people to enjoy. But no, last year I ended up with a lot of dusty RC equipment.
The lull is over! This year I've gotten back into the hobby in a big way, and I mean big.
I've always been a smaller electrics sort of pilot. I don't like the tedium and expense of nitro, and gas, to be honest, scared me. As I said, I was a 3s 2200mah kind of guy.
Before my hiatus, I bought a large crop duster with a gasoline engine on it, and even got a flight or two in on it. A bit before that I got the Flex Innovations Cessna 170 and was flying it on 5s 5000mah batteries. A friend gave me a deal on a Pitts that was running 12s 5000mah. Most recently I picked up a 1/4 scale PA-18 Supercub with a VVRC twin 40 gasser on it. I got several flights on the Cub this week, and it was awesome.
I'm fortunate to be allowed access to a private RC flying field. It's just far enough away that it's not worth going up for an afternoon or evening. But I am able to rush out of work on my "Friday" and take my mini camper up, and do a quick overnight trip. I'll fly some in the evening, cook a meal on the propane stove, camp out, and wake up the next day for some early morning flights. When I leave, I still have most of my weekend available to me, or more accurately, available to the wife for the honey-do lists.
So, am I alone in this on again, off again relationship with RC? Or does anyone else have similar stories?
It's not like I decide to break up with it, sell off all my gear, and go a different direction. Just sometimes I drift away.
The last year has been that way for me. Which is weird, I've been mostly a solo type of pilot. I fly smaller electric planes. 3s 2200mah was about as big a battery as I ever needed.
You'd think that with Covid I'd have more free time to do activities that I don't need other people to enjoy. But no, last year I ended up with a lot of dusty RC equipment.
The lull is over! This year I've gotten back into the hobby in a big way, and I mean big.
I've always been a smaller electrics sort of pilot. I don't like the tedium and expense of nitro, and gas, to be honest, scared me. As I said, I was a 3s 2200mah kind of guy.
Before my hiatus, I bought a large crop duster with a gasoline engine on it, and even got a flight or two in on it. A bit before that I got the Flex Innovations Cessna 170 and was flying it on 5s 5000mah batteries. A friend gave me a deal on a Pitts that was running 12s 5000mah. Most recently I picked up a 1/4 scale PA-18 Supercub with a VVRC twin 40 gasser on it. I got several flights on the Cub this week, and it was awesome.
I'm fortunate to be allowed access to a private RC flying field. It's just far enough away that it's not worth going up for an afternoon or evening. But I am able to rush out of work on my "Friday" and take my mini camper up, and do a quick overnight trip. I'll fly some in the evening, cook a meal on the propane stove, camp out, and wake up the next day for some early morning flights. When I leave, I still have most of my weekend available to me, or more accurately, available to the wife for the honey-do lists.
So, am I alone in this on again, off again relationship with RC? Or does anyone else have similar stories?
