Can you fly rc helis with only one arm?

[FuturaSE]

There was a guy over wycombe way flying where bob j was flying a few years back. he had one able hand and had moved the left stick to the back right side of the transmitter! (one stick on the front one on the back) using a thumb on the front and fingers on the rear stick!

Needless to say i was well impressed!

can you believe this????????
what a story!!!!!!!!!

[johnsandywhite]

There's a guy at the club I go to who flys with one hand. He's still learning so has a guy on a buddy box for things go wrong. He has thumb on throttle and little finger on the other stick .

It's quite amazing !

Actually, back in the day when I was teaching noobies to fly planks on Mode 2, I used to put the Tx on the floor and fly with my right foot. I don't think I will try it with an Heli though.

[FuturaSE]

Actually, back in the day when I was teaching noobies to fly planks on Mode 2, I used to put the Tx on the floor and fly with my right foot. I don't think I will try it with an Heli though.

nice one

iv no experience with flying planks but i think its so easy you can fly them blind or blindfolded or with no arms and legs

[electricsceadu]

there is a guy on the scale heli forum that not just flies heli's
he also builds some very nice scale heli's with one hand

[machasm]

We had a member join our club a couple of years ago who has had a stroke and it has left him completely paralysed down his right side. We fashioned a transmitter tray to fit to his wheelchair and, with the help of Richie Clark who donated a sim stick tried to get him to learn to fly using only his left hand. Although he did improve and could just about hover on the Sim, alas we never did get him down the field to try it out for real on his Trex 600. He has since left the club and taken more of an interest in model boats.
It is a tough challenge indeed.

[Boggy]