RC boating?

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Boats? No. But I'm a bit of a helifreak. Just started to get into the fpv side of the hobby. I think I'll stick with the fixed wings for that tho.
 
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I am just having a ball flying my helo in the living room, I can't wait till spring so I ca get outside!
 
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xjdriver said:
Check this out.
Mystic C5000 Turbine Startup - YouTube
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Very cool! Can't imagine the investment.

Since we're talking R/C, anyone have flight simulator? I just bought Realflight 7 by Great Planes from Tower Hobbies. I believe that version came out last fall. For $150 you get the downloadable cd and 8 channel radio. There's over 90 planes, 30 helis, 40 fields one which is an aircraft carrier. You can fly warbirds, jets, trainers, bi-wings etc. Very cool and you can crash all you want, just hit the reset and your ready to fly again.... It's very realistic.......
 
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WIMUSKY said:
Very cool! Can't imagine the investment.

Since we're talking R/C, anyone have flight simulator? I just bought Realflight 7 by Great Planes from Tower Hobbies.
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I bought it many years ago to teach my ex how to fly. Was actually easier to teach her using a buddy box though.

I had it setup to use my actual radio.

I am sure its way better now though.
 
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bruceb58 said:
I bought it many years ago to teach my ex how to fly. Was actually easier to teach her using a buddy box though.

I had it setup to use my actual radio.

I am sure its way better now though.
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Yeah, it's very cool. It took me forever to land right. At first I was landing in the tall grass until I figured out the depth. Still land too hard at times and the engine kills. I try to dead stick all my landings. The main field I'm using is an actual 360? photograph. I could use my radio, I have a 5 channel, but it's too old for the plugin. I believe mine is round and the simulator is square.....

There's a switch for the landing gear and smoke for some of the planes.....

Here's a link to their website...
http://www.realflight.com/products/
 
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WIMUSKY said:
Very cool! Can't imagine the investment.

Since we're talking R/C, anyone have flight simulator? I just bought Realflight 7 by Great Planes from Tower Hobbies. I believe that version came out last fall. For $150 you get the downloadable cd and 8 channel radio. There's over 90 planes, 30 helis, 40 fields one which is an aircraft carrier. You can fly warbirds, jets, trainers, bi-wings etc. Very cool and you can crash all you want, just hit the reset and your ready to fly again.... It's very realistic.......
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I want the sim really bad but my pc is to old and slow, need new pc then im buyin that, i played around on one at the local hobby shop, it was awesome he had like every booster pack with all sorts of aircraft, even blimps. Mabey i could learn how to fly a cp heli without actually crashing mine. Have you played on line? Sounds really cool.

Ive been watching alot of rc jet videos, way cool stuff, the planes are unbelievably fast.
 
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I want the sim really bad but my pc is to old and slow, need new pc then im buyin that, i played around on one at the local hobby shop, it was awesome he had like every booster pack with all sorts of aircraft, even blimps. Mabey i could learn how to fly a cp heli without actually crashing mine. Have you played on line? Sounds really cool.

Ive been watching alot of rc jet videos, way cool stuff, the planes are unbelievably fast.
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The jets on the sim are fast too. They sound like the real deal when you crank them up for takeoff. Haven't down the online thing yet. Just bought it a couple weeks ago. Dad had bought the same thing last fall. Once I played with it I had to buy one...

They say minimum system requirements for the hard drive is 10GB. I have a 8GB system and it runs just fine....
 
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The flight Sims have saved me thousands of dollars when I was learning to do piro flips.
 
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WIMUSKY said:
The jets on the sim are fast too. They sound like the real deal when you crank them up for takeoff. Haven't down the online thing yet. Just bought it a couple weeks ago. Dad had bought the same thing last fall. Once I played with it I had to buy one...

They say minimum system requirements for the hard drive is 10GB. I have a 8GB system and it runs just fine....
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8GB??????????????

Geeze, I have been running terabyte systems for quite a while now.

8GB? are you sure you are running an 8GB hard drive?

The HTPC I just finished building has 16GB of memory and 5 terabytes of HD storage.
 
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MTboatguy said:
8GB??????????????

Geeze, I have been running terabyte systems for quite a while now.

8GB? are you sure you are running an 8GB hard drive?

The HTPC I just finished building has 16GB of memory and 5 terabytes of HD storage.
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I was mistaken, 8GB RAM, 750GB HD...... Got my terminology switched....
 
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WIMUSKY said:
The jets on the sim are fast too. They sound like the real deal when you crank them up for takeoff. Haven't down the online thing yet. Just bought it a couple weeks ago. Dad had bought the same thing last fall. Once I played with it I had to buy one...

They say minimum system requirements for the hard drive is 10GB. I have a 8GB system and it runs just fine....
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Figure i would give it a try, im gona try and get an old pc running that i got from work and hook it up to my 32" in my room it would be sweet.
 
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Get yourself some goggles with a head tracker. Trippy!

Bill
 
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