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Down here at Eastbourne we have a very well organised indoor session every week, the hall is the size of 4 badminton courts and has a 25/30ft ceiling. We have a 15min slot for heli's, followed by 15 mins for fixed wing and twin rotor. Flying is from 1900hrs to 2130hrs and we try to get as much flying in as possible, on one session we had 10 450 size heli's flying at once, I consider that to be too many even if all they do is tail in hovering!!!!
I do have 2 450 size heli's ( trex 450 SE and 450S) when I fly outside i'm ok doing circuits loops and rolls, the last thing I want to do is hover for 15mins tail in indoors.
What Ive done is bought a FP honeybee so that when there are 5 or 6 heli's flying I can do little circuits and figure of eights, if I get it a bit wrong I can dump it and get away with no damage most times. I consider that my little fixed pitch is teaching me far more than 15mins of tail in hovering with a 450, and it only cost me the price of 1 good crash with a bigger heli.
On the fixed wing slots I do tail first circuits with my twin rotor or fly a depron delight????
What do you all think with regards to safety?????
David Howe
I do have 2 450 size heli's ( trex 450 SE and 450S) when I fly outside i'm ok doing circuits loops and rolls, the last thing I want to do is hover for 15mins tail in indoors.
What Ive done is bought a FP honeybee so that when there are 5 or 6 heli's flying I can do little circuits and figure of eights, if I get it a bit wrong I can dump it and get away with no damage most times. I consider that my little fixed pitch is teaching me far more than 15mins of tail in hovering with a 450, and it only cost me the price of 1 good crash with a bigger heli.
On the fixed wing slots I do tail first circuits with my twin rotor or fly a depron delight????
What do you all think with regards to safety?????
David Howe
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