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After years of not touching my RC stuff at all, I'm kinda back in it. My neighbor is the ranch/property manager for a multi-million dollar ranch/house that changed hands last year. When the previous owners moved out they left an Align TREX 250 and TREX 500 with radio and batteries, and all... both RTF.
My neighbor asked me if I knew anything about them and if I'd be interested in them. I told him I used to have both of those birds back in like 2010 but I SUCKED trying to fly them so I sold them and stuck with planes. I also used to have a Blade MSR fixed pitch micro heli that was a ton of fun to fly around the house cause you couldn't hurt it, literally... didn't matter what you crashed into. Well hanging out with him a few weeks ago he mentioned he brought them home for me to have so I now have the two birds here at home (free).
I've been working on getting the 250 setup (or at least validating the setup it has) and I haven't really touched the 500. I'll admit, both of them are extremely intimidating when spooled up and fairly expensive to crash. So I did some looking and found that Blade now makes a CPS that is the same micro size as my old MSR but it's a collective pitch bird that weighs 1.1 ounces all up ready to fly. They are $99 shipped in the Bind-and-fly version so I grabbed it off amazon and it was delivered today. They have a stability mode too so an inexperienced heli pilot can learn on it, or guys like me can get back into it. In stability mode it's actually not bad at all, the controls are pretty numb and large movements are almost necessary but I'm making tiny ones over a long period of time so I don't become hamfisted. There's a lot I need to re-learn for sure though, it's not like riding a bike.
I do still have my old RealFlight 4.5 so I can practice on that and my kids love to play it too. It's kept my skill level from being 0% again so I'm thankful for that. I do love this little heli, I've already rammed it hard into some walls and shit, no issues thus far. In stability mode it's all good... in sport/3d it's full retard.
Anyways, I got out my last remaining plane that I quite literally have not touched since 05/2012 that was sitting at the top of the shelf in my garage along with the rest of my new found hanger and decided to take a family pic for you all. Man my plan was covered in about 1/16th" of dust... poor thing, I LOVE this plane.
I suppose I need to restock on some batteries for it, I can steal the one from the 500 heli but I won't fly that as I don't know the history. And all the batteries I have are WAY old... Anyways, I don't know how long I'll stick with this again, my hobbies usually go in 6-12 month cycles over the course of 5-6 years but the timelines are flexible now that I've got kids.
My neighbor asked me if I knew anything about them and if I'd be interested in them. I told him I used to have both of those birds back in like 2010 but I SUCKED trying to fly them so I sold them and stuck with planes. I also used to have a Blade MSR fixed pitch micro heli that was a ton of fun to fly around the house cause you couldn't hurt it, literally... didn't matter what you crashed into. Well hanging out with him a few weeks ago he mentioned he brought them home for me to have so I now have the two birds here at home (free).
I've been working on getting the 250 setup (or at least validating the setup it has) and I haven't really touched the 500. I'll admit, both of them are extremely intimidating when spooled up and fairly expensive to crash. So I did some looking and found that Blade now makes a CPS that is the same micro size as my old MSR but it's a collective pitch bird that weighs 1.1 ounces all up ready to fly. They are $99 shipped in the Bind-and-fly version so I grabbed it off amazon and it was delivered today. They have a stability mode too so an inexperienced heli pilot can learn on it, or guys like me can get back into it. In stability mode it's actually not bad at all, the controls are pretty numb and large movements are almost necessary but I'm making tiny ones over a long period of time so I don't become hamfisted. There's a lot I need to re-learn for sure though, it's not like riding a bike.
I do still have my old RealFlight 4.5 so I can practice on that and my kids love to play it too. It's kept my skill level from being 0% again so I'm thankful for that. I do love this little heli, I've already rammed it hard into some walls and shit, no issues thus far. In stability mode it's all good... in sport/3d it's full retard.
Anyways, I got out my last remaining plane that I quite literally have not touched since 05/2012 that was sitting at the top of the shelf in my garage along with the rest of my new found hanger and decided to take a family pic for you all. Man my plan was covered in about 1/16th" of dust... poor thing, I LOVE this plane.
I suppose I need to restock on some batteries for it, I can steal the one from the 500 heli but I won't fly that as I don't know the history. And all the batteries I have are WAY old... Anyways, I don't know how long I'll stick with this again, my hobbies usually go in 6-12 month cycles over the course of 5-6 years but the timelines are flexible now that I've got kids.
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