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Mac,
While I've never flown either RC Heli or the real thing, especially with the RC, there are some pretty sophisticated electronics available now that make it a lot easier than what it used to be.

Stability Augmentation systems have arrived (years ago) for the RC world, making things a lot easier than what it was before that.

Yes, you really do need to know what you're doing, but I think we've stepped back from 'knife's edge' to a wide, flat piece of wood.

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Gary,

I know.

I was involved with some of the earliest research into that stuff at Carnegie Mellon.

Tele-operated RC heli begat autonomous RC heli.

The team put one together that was used to get inside an underground nuke "bubble" that didn't implode. The scientists wanted to be able to see what was in there, but it was kinda hot, if you know what I mean.


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Okay.

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I don't fly heli's. I fly planes. Gliders, mostly. Electric gliders. I don't fool with gas anymore. I even converted my Ucontrol airplane to electric. Only thing bad about electric is, if you build a silhouette model, everythings exposed.

On a couple of my planes the electronic gear is placed in such a way that it gives the plane a sophisticated look. The downside to electrics are the batteries. You need a few and they ain't cheap. But they do last a long time and there's no mess with fuel and noisy motors. Well ... that last statement isn't exactly true. Some of the electric motors make as much, if not more, noise than the gas engines do. Just depends on the motors being used.

This last Christmas my oldest grandson gave me an RC heli. Never got to fly it. My #2 grandson went outside and broke it in a crash. Actually, not broke, but lost a piece of the balancer. Maybe I'll order the piece, if I ever get interested in flying heli's.


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Hey with that Hexakopter and a camera you could go looking for Big Foot and have your own TV show. New career in UFO hunting.
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Russ,
I've never flown R/C Heli, if I was still flying, I might have tried it by now. There are some seriously interesting devices out there.

Did you get a chance to look at the video(s) I put up?

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