How did you get into heli's?

[Vanquish]

I bought my first heli nearly 2 years ago after watching this video of Daniel Katzav and being completely amazed. I never thought such things were possible and was/still am determined to be able to make a heli fly like that!

How did your heli obsession start?

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89KJ6GxjSME"]YouTube - Daniel Katzav - Vision 50[/ame]

[pgkevet]

I bought one of those stupid little foam IR thingies to mess about with in my office.. the decided it was limiting and bougth a contra-rotating lama to play with.. thenf oolshly thought I ought to get something that looked a bit more like a heli...

After wasting my money on an HBK2 which i just couldnlt fly and spending more time mending it..even more stupidly I bought a second one to be able to fly while I fixed the first....

.. after several weeks of just not getting the hang of it I bought the sim. Yup I did everything the wrong way around..

When i could fly the sim but still couldn't get that blasted HBK2's under control then my stubborness came into play.

I decided I needed to know if it was my rank inability with these things or the model.. so next came a prebuilt 450v2.. which to my amazement I could actually hover out of the box..

£20K later (and some great models) and I'm still too stupid to realise my limitations....

... but I'm darned good at rebuilding helis...

[Sqwidge]

I've always been into rotary flight but like many others it started with a 2 channel, then a co-ax and then onto 6 channel upwards

[waveydavey]

Buy it now button on Ebay, Bastard thing. Kyosho Nexus No1, Buy it now button on Ebay, Bastard thing. Kyosho Nexus No2. A touch more sensibly Buy it now button on Ebay, Bastard thing Hirobo Sceadu 30.

The first one was a complete 'that looks like good fun'. By the Sceadu I had found a club and my destiny and bank balance were doomed.

[Ade_Law]

I was flying gliders in the early 90s. Went to the sandown show and saw curtis fly.. played on aerochopper but never had the money to get into helis.

around 2002 i got an ikarus piccolo from a friend second hand, then a concept 30srx then a raptor 50 from rcslopesurfer. I dread to think how much i have spent on this sport since then!

Ade

[Paulo uk]

My Misses asked me to buy some sort of pool toy for our daughter - something that swum or was remote controlled and every site I went to, I kept seeing these great little contr-rotating helicopters. Still hadnt got a pool toy yet so I went around to my local model shop to get a little speedboat or something for her. 20 minutes later I cam out with a century spirit 2.4ghz and havent looked back. As an offshoot to this, my father-in-law saw the spirit and now has a staggering 20 helicopters!!!!

[Paulo uk]

I bought my first heli nearly 2 years ago after watching this video of Daniel Katzav and being completely amazed. I never thought such things were possible and was/still am determined to be able to make a heli fly like that!

How did your heli obsession start?

YouTube - Daniel Katzav - Vision 50

Great video by the way. Heres the first 3d video I saw and I still think its great:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6F-0rIpLJE]YouTube - RC Helicopter demo[/ame]

[Eckchaz]

It was when I was 13 (17yrs ago).. We went Poole to visit my dad in his new job and when walking round town, we went into a model shop.. hanging from the ceiling was a Raptor of some sort.. I fell in love with it.. wanted one but knew this was way to expensive for once.. that started my love of Helis..

7 yrs ago.. I decided to buy my first one after some prompt on tv or something.. brought a Protech Zoom (crap elec's) and spent more time upgrading everything than flying.. I didnt have any help.. crashed it twice and gave up/sold it after a month!

Latest attemp, Dec 09.. Mini Titan.. crashed again on first flight.. didnt like it.. stayed on the shelf! Then I joined this site (best help/advice ever!) brought a T500 in feb.. and finally gave me the confidence and learnt to fly! Then Dave made me decide on my first Nitro in March which I love now!.. just cant decide on a 90 now after seeing how my bank balance got battered in 9 mths, I think I've learnt that bling dont help my flying

[Mart61]

Picoo Z!

[danch]

Love of RC Heli's started many moons ago when I was a lad & used to visit the LHS for model car parts, always wanted a heli since then, then after a real heli lesson had the bug.

Then decided to try RC Heli's, bought my Rappy 30 in July, found this forum & have not looked back.

Dan

[CookieMan]

LOL.. It was back in (mid) 2006, when I wanted to gift a ring to my girlfriend... thought I'd surprise her in a fancy way by lifting it up, tied to the skids of a model helicopter!!!

Little did I know about the hobby or how things were supposed to be done!

But this got me reading and reading and then came along heliproz where I got my first 450 from.

The girl has gone. Lots of money spent. Many sleeps later... the hobby still remains!

(After reading more, I just decided to give the ring to her by hand - took my own time enjoying the build of the 450 )

[mark_w]

Raced RC cars, then my mate got a shuttle given to him. He got a sim, and when we could hover in that we had a go with the suttle.

[Spanner]

I went along to some fathers day event at a local National Trust property, a friend of my wifes husband and me got chatting and he mentioned he flew model heli's, and I thought that sounds a laugh, and here I am!

[waveydavey]

I think I've learnt that bling dont help my flying

A breakthrough indeed, woohoo. I was a blinger to start with, I realised that it didn't help quite quickly too Eddie.

[simon1]

I had a century neon blaze 2.4 bought for me for xmas 2008 and luuuurrrrrvvvvved it ever since.