What rc vehicle?

[kaivalagi]

In my youth I raced electric RC cars, my schumacher cat was bloody awesome...but only a good outdoor racing track will do it justice

I have a nitro car now (HPI MT2 G3.0) but don't use it anywhere near enough, I'm waiting/hoping for my son (9 yrs) to get into it...however I do miss the ease of electric. It also has to be said that these days there are good performance brushless motors and LIPO batteries so things have moved on from the old days quite a bit. I'm not going to look at what is available though, I might get tempted when I really want to save the pennies for an electric quadcopter!

After owning a nitro car I think I would actually go electric if I was to buy an RC car now...it's just less bother!

Originally Posted by kaivalagi

After owning a nitro car I think I would actually go electric if I was to buy an RC car now...it's just less bother!

Amen brother! you can go mega fast with electric now, maybe hasn't the same noise factor but its a small downside inmho.

Originally Posted by Redmist

I've had almost every RC vehicle going:
1st was a Nikko off road buggy
Then had two tamiya 1/10 electric cars and a fancy drift one.
A RC Hovercraft.
Numerous RC Airplanes
3 heli's from mini to 450 size (Latter one was a short lived affair!)
1 RC Tricopter
Now I mainly fly FPV RC airplanes (Google it if you don't know what FPV is!)

The most fun? FPV planes!! Do it!!

Soon as i saw kaivalagi's vid there i was like, wow i want one of those, fpv looks awesome, mind you the price is awesome as well.
Question does flyinf by fpv make it harder or easier?

[kaivalagi]

Would be good to know that! All this talk is making me get ever closer to buying a kit, a couple of good cheap sites:
http://www.goodluckbuy.com/
http://www.hobbyking.com

Still need Redmist's opinion but looking at this vid I'd say it makes it easier to fly using a FPV setup, but a quadcopter isn't a plane



In this vid the pilot makes a few errors, clipping the floor etc but the thing corrects any instability....the control boards in the quadcopters are awesome.

@Redmist, do you have the same sort of stability help with planes these days? correction from a stall etc?

@JoshWalker - just get a quadcopter mate! Save your pennies for a little longer...

I'd say far easier in FPV

[Fallout]

Originally Posted by Spank86

I'd say far easier in FPV

[Wideboy]

I'd say it was slightly easier in regards to your control inputs, being stood on the ground your inputs will change depending on which direction the model is traveling etc. I've only had a brief go on fpv but I still did my landings and take offs without the goggles on / the conventional way.

[Fallout]

I bet you're tempted to push the range of your transmitter when you're using FPV. Is there some sort of received signal strength display? Asking a bit much, but it'd make sense to let you fly as far as possible.

[Wideboy]

i didnt really go very far, i flew it for about 2 mins. My friend takes his well over a mile, where we fly near winch there's loads of landmarks and he reckons he's pushed past 2 miles. Thats 2.4 though and i believe JR claim some ridiculous range anyway.

i must say its certainly adds another dimension to flying, if it wasn't so expensive i would purchase a setup

[Fallout]

I would use it for devious means such as harassing picnickers. You could hide in a bush a mile away and strafe dog walkers and small children without ever being caught. With a decent framed WW2 bomber you could hook up bomb bay doors to ch5/6 and drop things on people, such as poison tipped darts or home made napalm, then bank back round and watch them die slowly.

On a serious note though, dog fighting would be way better. It's practically impossible to work out if you're on someone's tail or not when flying an RC, but with FPV it'd be quality.