Who Else Misses How This Site Was TEN Years A Go?

[WildWake]

Just scrolling my pc bookmarks & deleting unused ones and this site popped up...
Clicked on, Looked at my members profile and in 2 days time it was 12 years ago to the day that I joined on here.
I made so many great friends on this site and at related Heli events, its a shame Facebook etc took the fun away from this site.
TapaTalk was my most used app back in the day..
Who else misses the old days?
All The Best,
Tye

[p4ddy]

Yep, gay book has killed so many great forums. I also hanker after the days of the early 450 boom and the FP micro. Good old walkera #4, glad I've never sold any helis and still have them all for the nostalgic fix.
I think also this forums downturn started when the old 'use your REAL name' gang split from here and started Talk Heli. This forum has also had so many format changes. I popped into rcgroups the other day and it's never changed, still the same
??????as when I joined............18 years ago
????

[aww]

Just us and the tumble weed.
Anthony

[jwatts007]

So I was googling for a Hyper 50 piston ring, & a link for heliaddicts came up, I took a look & saw your post...Sure was fun wasn't it, how time flies....

[trillian]

I am a bit nostalgic for the golden age of Heliaddicts. I am on a Discord group and a few FB groups, but none of them (or even all of them collectively) have been able to truly replace what this forum used to be.

I visit HF fairly regularly because there are sections for more rare helis. But I don't post there much these days because there are so many trolls that will chime in to indulge their egos.

[Mike Sanders]

I too am very nostalgic for the old days of heliaddicts (and other things). I joined about 11 years ago. In those days it was a mine of valuable information (mostly). Now there is apparently very much less interest in model helicopters generally. In these days of flaybarless the setting up advice that we used to get (and give) is pretty much obsolete. The MK club forum is totally moribund. The club itself has fewer than half the members that it did at its peak.
I look on here almost every day but I am not often rewarded with any entertainment. I don't do Facebook. I look at Discord but there are so many topics that I don't really keep up with it. I am getting old.

[trillian]

When I first got on here, I only had a sim, I didn't even have a heli or a radio, let alone belonging to a club, and it was all new and a bit bewildering. The clubs near me had waiting lists! Imagine that. The Boxhill club was always full and I felt lucky to get in when someone didn't renew, no idea what their membership is now but I know they added racing drones a few years ago to widen the appeal.

[moyesboy]

the surprising thing is that this actually still exists!

[opc]

I must admit I haven’t been on here for a good ten yrs,thinking about heli’s again thought I would come here,what’s happened to the place

[vanman]

Hey all just popped in to see what was happening I’m still flying but doing way less than back in 2010 /2019 I follow a few groups on F/B but never post it just seams to lots of keyboard warriors etc
Heres hoping to get back to an event in the UK sometime in the future

[David Drew]

Miss the old community and activity. I don't use Facearse so that's not my issue. The issue I think is that flying helis has declined. Shame

[barryorbik]

I look on here most days too, but not much activity going on. My helicopter flying literally took a nose dive when our site was pinched by HS2 and the local club I joined is mainly fixed wing because it is a field open to the general (did I say ignorant?) public and dog walkers, who have no respect for even pretty large nitro powered airplanes, so not a safe place to contemplate helicopter flying. We are off for our annual visit to Weston Park this weekend so I will enjoy watching the goings on at Helifest again, even if I cannot do many of the 'tricks' those pilots do.

Stay safe and lets hope there is a helicopter revival soon.

Barry

[Stuart]

Who knows what will happen... but RCHeliAddict will be here for many years to come...

[Varelco]

Hey folks, I miss it too, It is a shame but I think it reflects the current state of the hobby, just look at how many suppliers and manufacturers we have lost.

[cycled]

Some heli businesses have closed/moved on, sure, but there are newer businesses too like OMP and Goosky... so, both Chinese. On European news, Spirit is launching a new radio soon.

I'm surprised there seems to be such a disconnect between FPV/drone flyers and more traditional model flyers. There's certainly been development with multirotors, and some things have potential for overlap like ELRS. Rotorflight is another crossover, basically an open source FBL built to use multirotor flight computers.