How did you get into heli's?

[trillian]

My work colleague was flying planes from about 2005 or so and at the time we had a big office space and he would have these very large crates shipped to the office with big WW2 planes in them. I kept seeing these crates and plane kits and engines etc.

Then what really got me drawn into it was seeing RealFlight G3 and how you could learn a lot of the basics on the sim before risking the real thing, this was sometime in 2007. It wasn't until toward the end of 2007 I got my first heli, a 3DX 450 (which I still have) and then spring of 2008 I got a Raptor 30.

(somewhere in there I had a Hirobo Shuttle but I never flew it because once I got the Raptor that's all I flew for almost a year)

[Jamin_00]

3yrs ago ish my work mate showed me them on YouTube and i thought they were awesome so we brought a belt cp each

After a couple of months I gave up as they are shite and it was only us 2 trying to learn to fly in the workshop so not much fun but got a rather uncontrolled hover going on my first flight lasted 3 secs!! No sim or nothing just straight in the air and straight over and down lol.

About a year later he then showed me a Trex 500.

I had to have it

About 20 models later here I am

And the mrs still think I got the same 3 models I had back then and everything costs £50