Love the sim, go off my lad already

[davemh]

Picked up a copy of the sim yesterday and spent a few hours setting it up using an FF8 transmitter. I was surprised I could still remember how to set up the FF8 having not really used it for 12 years but thankfully it all came flooding back.
Heli seems very good, shame about the fixed wing.
My lad had a play (about an hour) having never touched a RC model before.
By end of session he was hovering very well, controlled take-off and landing and had pretty much cracked auto's. He then pestered me to teach him basic 3d flips which he also nailed at low height. Not happy that I have to take laptop to work with me.
Now he wants an Align 700

[Cagey]

Kids eh !

So send him out to work at sweeping chimneys till he's got enough to buy one. OR, get him an mCPX, he will love it and also prove if he's ready for anything bigger ( MORE expensive that is ) .

[electricsceadu]

its time for a new laptop

[bikerflier]

Mat at Midland missed out there then, I'm sure he would have found a laptop for you from his little secret store out the back.

Kids are so quick with picking up PC things these days, and they manage to convert it into flying the real thing so easily.

MCPX seems the right way to go for your son. Need a Spektrum radio as well though.

Picked up a copy of the sim yesterday and spent a few hours setting it up using an FF8 transmitter. I was surprised I could still remember how to set up the FF8 having not really used it for 12 years but thankfully it all came flooding back.
Heli seems very good, shame about the fixed wing.
My lad had a play (about an hour) having never touched a RC model before.
By end of session he was hovering very well, controlled take-off and landing and had pretty much cracked auto's. He then pestered me to teach him basic 3d flips which he also nailed at low height. Not happy that I have to take laptop to work with me.
Now he wants an Align 700

[Spasmod]

My boy who is 9 started playing around on the sim about a month ago. He's already managed to work out a lot of 3d moves and has incredible reactions and control. The funny thing is it's impossible for him to do forward flight or banked turns.

I've been trying to pursuade him that it's important to be able to fly the heli in a normal manner but after about 30 seconds of trying he's back to stick banging again lol.

I'm hoping he'll realise the error of his ways as he seems to be a natural for 3d.