As far as FPV goes I got the DJI setup for my Aeroscout and after a few months I finally got another O3 Air Unit for my 70mm Viper. It completely redefines the experience for me
Fpv is amazing fun if you have others with you. I swear to you, the fpv light weight camera on the Ultrix 600mm is absolutely an experience to have. Place a 3s 2200mAh in there and it's 18 minutes of amazing fun
@@trentwalker989 I got an FXT Viper goggle with Caddx cams for my Cinewhoop. I also flew briefly from the cockpit of my Scout. The range of the camera was so limiting, I gave it up.
FPV is so much more fun than LOS. Been flying FPV for 15 years … keeps getting more fun. You can be 2 miles away , on the top of a mountain , instead of flying circles around a neighborhood park. The main reason is , that FPV is so immersive. Just as we imagined when we were little, you are in the plane flying it. Aerial exploration with FPV is amazing, don’t give up so easily.
If it's within your budget, purchase a transmitter with more channels than you currently need. As you grow in the hobby, you might outgrow your transmitter and wish you had purchased a better one earlier.
@@hotheadedfilmshhf6734 I do. I spent about $2,500 on stuff to get started and only flew one flight for less than 5 minutes. After I destroyed my first model on the bench, I never wanted anything to do with it ever again. It was that traumatic. I could of bought airline tickets to anywhere in the world for me and a friend and flown more and had a better time. RC was a total rlpoff. Like the guy said at the start, it's a common scenario in FPV.
Horizon Hobby, their affordable birds with Spectrum Safe Select, & their sim pretty much was all I needed to flourish as a pilot these days. Easily starting the hobby and gaining confidence and abilities for cheaper than most other RC hobbies.
I started with multirotors, and have since branched into a little bit of planes and tanks. Thanks to the fact that much of this gear is so versatile, it's been cheap and easy to hop around. To this day, I've not lost a single vehicle. Came close a few times, but everything still operates! My poor Dolphin sure took a beating when I was learning plane stuff, but acrylic hot glue heals many wounds!
I am all ELRS at this point and all the receivers have built in telemetry. I set it up for the first time on my most resent plane. I only use battery voltage but having that information has been a game changer for me. Knowing the current level with a warning when voltage is low allows me to fly without worrying that I'm going to kill the battery and having a forced landing. I fly smaller batteries now. Saves money on batteries and weight in the plane.
A regret when I was flying balsas and nitro helis in the 80's and 90's that took several "incidents" to learn - forgetting to bring a garbage bag to the field to take the pieces home (or to the club dumpster). 😮
Join a club?! The entry fee for an organized club here in Norway is about 200 USD per year, 3/4 of which is for national buerocracy, and that is with no certainty of a useful local airfield that is open in weekends😢 Go bush pilots!
It's not black and white across all cultures unfortunately, but the club community aspect is a huge winning part that we wish more folks could regularly have access to. Sorry to hear Norway is restrictive.
@@TailHeavyProductionsmy local club has 4 crotchety old men who fly loud gassers and laugh at my foamies. That said, there are also a few young flyers I am mentoring and a few 20-something’s that are fun to fly with.
Bro my club costs 650 USD a year and it's like a miletery camp😅 and believe me it's worth it it doesn't have to be a club but don't go flying alone in your back yard
Clubs might have the dreaded nazi crew with the philosophical " "Rules for ye, not for me" attitude Absolutely the worst part about the hobby are the clubs with the nazis
Very thorough list of regrets! Kinda surprised FPV is #1. But I guess it does get boring after a while if flying solo - we don’t get to see the beautiful plane we are flying which is the biggest draw for flying RC. I recommend flying FPV in close formation with a buddy as a cure🙂
As you said, "... if you started in LoS...". I suspect FPV is more popular than you think, just not with the LoS people. The long range guys, for example, may not be talking about what they're up to as much as they used to.
My biggest mistake I’ve made several times. Selling a plane I know I love in order to buy a plane I think is better or more fun. My go-to Horizon plane has always been the Eflite Valiant 1.3. But there have been 2 or 3 occasions where I sold it wanting the money to buy a Timber, Air Tractor, RV7, etc. Only to find out afterwards it flys terrible, or just simply doesn’t fly the way I want it to. So I then sell that plane and buy another Valiant. Nowadays, while I don’t fly Horizon planes as much since I’m a FliteTest fan, I’m never without a Valiant in my hangar. And I will never sell it to buy another plane, unless of course it’s another Valiant. Great video as always, guys! Side note: I’m not sure if you guys have flown the Valiant, but it’d be cool if you guys did a review.
Twisted Hobbies are great but they are so lightweight that any wind makes them un-flyable. I wanted to like them and went back to an Eratix as I can fly them in more wind. The Eratix isn’t as forgiving. Lastly the Twisted Hobbies requires a lot of building and considering the high cost I’ll never buy another one.
I think regret with telemetry comes more from expectations, rather than the telemetry itself. You don't buy a tool, like a tape measure, expecting it to bring you happiness. So why buy telemetry tools that measure other things and expect them to bring you happiness? I say the regret comes in expecting them to enhance your experience, instead of seeing them for what they are--tools/utilities that aren't needed all the time, but are useful when you do have a use for them. Telemetry is just extra information. When you are flying, most extra information is not useful because you can't use it... until circumstances change and the relevant telemetry suddenly becomes very useful. Voltage telemetry is frequently useful because that constantly changes, even when things are working correctly. However, other forms of telemetry often have pretty stable values (unless you are doing things like long range FPV). So they are less useful most time. But, if you ever had a problem in flight, telemetry can help you figure out what is happening (especially if you log it so you can review it later). Similarly, if you ever make a change to a plane, telemetry can help give you object values to compare the differences, rather that subjective opinions like (this feels a bit slower, or less responsive).
on the topic of hardware; when I bought a Horizon hobby carbonZ T-28, I wanted to put a scale triblade on it so bad, but I knew that the stock ESC would not last long if I actually went with a triblade, and so when I got that beautiful scale triblade, I also slapped a Robbe 130A opto ESC with sepparate power supply for the receiver on it and never had power/heat issues again. it was costly, but a good investment and it immediately made the plane look twice as good
Well done! I'm a fail safe victim. 😅 John E, who gave you his glider, came and flew at our field last weekend. Talk to John if you want to come down sometime. 👍
#12 Joining a club. I've been a member of many. In my experience, there's always a large contingent of guys whom love interpersonal drama, gossip and moaning. They also love to try to suck others into the same. No thank you. The last day I can fly by myself will be the last day I fly.
I tried FPV to fly my Flite Test Scout from the cockpit. Couldn't really see much, and lost signal early and often. Found a cheap cinewhoop to practice with, and tried to chase my son's planes, but it wasn't fast enough and often couldn't mimic his quick moves. Haven't used it in two years.
i just started a channel based on fpv . i cant get enough! i started a year ago fpv and motionsi, Tom Hunt and Airguardian were the main reasons .my depth perception flying los is terrible and expensive lol
I think telemetry depend on what you fly, I slope soar and having receiver battery voltage can be very useful when you have been flying for an hour and wonder if you should land to check your battery pack, likewise altimeters can be useful.
I cancled my on back order UMX timber evo for a crack yak 3 weeks ago, got it in 4 days back. glueing and hope to maiden it tomorrow.. And I doubt I will ever get that umx after..
My motor RPM are not critical, but I reached a point where battery voltage is! I got tired of setting up chronometers in the radio, and either landing with a lot of juice or lowering the batteries a bit too much. About RPM telemetry... yeah, not a neccesity, but well, once you get used to it, it is also hard to skip, even if you look at that only once to tune your motor timmings. I agree on the rest of the points. I am one of that guys who spent a lot in FPV equipment I very rarely use. Oh well :)
The absolute Number 1 Regrets that Anybody could ever do............. Is.............Never start flying RC Airplanes. Sad is the Man who Never flew RC Airplanes. Great video buddy.
Ali express has saved me so much money it’s not even funny. It’s crazy to pay someone $70 for a fc stack at a united states vendor when it’ll come from Ali within 2 weeks for half the price. The American tax is real & those vendors know y’all are breaking your gear
Recently maidened a new foamie 3D plane and hated the way it flew. Came home to find the carbon fibre spa hidden on the work bench. Regret being stupid.
#1 regret: not flying when you could have. #2 regret: getting to the field and forgetting essentials i.e. batteries or transmitter ...I swear I've never done that. 😇🤪
The most common regret I have seen in 50 years of RC, next to not joining a club at once, is overbuying. Too many of us fill our attics with unopened kits we will never get around to. I will be 350 years old before I get through my own stack of seductive boxes, even if it should miraculously stop growing right now. So stick to the planes you love to fly and already optimized, don’t waste time maidening and tweaking awkward designs. Amass flights, not foam! Or balsa, if you are of my age.
My regret? Failing to appreciate that concentrating on the model makes it look twice as close as it really is. Found that out by trying to fly between myself and a tree. 😢
My wife's ostrich was a victim of a failsafe. It then stomped the plane to pieces. Flying on my ranch is hazardous to my planes. The animals always try to attack it when I'm trying to land. They are A-holes!
#1 regret = forgetting battery checker and taking off with flat batteries and trying to keep the plane above 'normal' 50% throttle to get back to landing.
I would recommend the top mistake is not buying a simulator then going to buy a 70mm edf then crashing it in seconds that’ll discourage most to not pickup the hobby again
I recently bought a voltanex rc p40 and broke the 3 included props the first thay flying in mu backyard. (Does someone know where to buy oryginal props but cheaper i want something like 20 props for 20 bucks or less)
Well at this point fpv-quads are my duty(I am from 🇺🇦 btw), but even after end of war, I want to travel and pursuit objects with 4k camera, or just shoot some views. For me, after quads, at this moment at least, I want to use rc's with fpv cameras. Maybe due to my occupation I did not feel interesting all this vibes from remote control in 3rd person
I had 5 perfect flights on my 70mm Yak-130. I always landed in a gentle descent under power right to the runway. On flight 6, I used flaps and decided to flare. Enter tip stall at 3’. Tore off the nose, wingtips and tail. Hmmmm. WTF. No flare for you.
Learning to fly a glider, a *good* glider, goes a long way to being able to fly in wind. Also, crow braking lets you land virtually anywhere. And once you get comfortable flying that glider, you'll find you became a much better pilot somewhere along the way. One side effect, however, is that 100 mph edfs will, at some point, begin to look slow. Really slow. Your poor wallet...
I have found that the R/C clubs of today require everybody's planes to be registered with the FAA and have a TRUST certificate as well as the normal AMA requirement.There even pushing the use of remote ID.Im glad I no longer fly at a club,I just fly at my local club.
The funny thing is - AMA clubs can't legally enforce federal requirements. If a club is enforcing remote ID then that's an entirely different issue. Every club needs a FRIA which doesn't require a remote ID to be used while flying at.
FPV for me is the total opposite, I find LOS flying boring as all hell ever since I have gone FPV. I only fly FPV now unless its a maiden. Way more of an interactive experience.
If RC is so great, how come you don't have a pilot job flying RC, but instead are here wasting your life making videos about toys for free for RUclips, that nobody pays you to do or pays you to watch.
We love flying RC toys - as do many people all around the world. We're passionate about sharing our love and outside the box approach to the hobby via videos to inspire and introduce even more folks to our awesome hobby. It's a labor of love. We're sorry to hear you don't feel the same way, but everyone has different interests. Nothing wrong with that!
It costs money, it adds weight and complexity to the plane, it helps to know how to fly LOS in the event of a failure of the equipment for whatever reason, disorientation while performing stunts, etc. You would NEVER want to add a full FPV system to a profile foamie like the Twisted Hobbies planes mentioned in the beginning of the video for example. Also some people just enjoy watching the entire plane fly, not just a real-world version of a flight simulator. The only things drones and R/C airplanes have in common is that they both fly and use batteries, otherwise it's a completely different branch of the hobby and needs to be treated as such.
@TailHeavyProductions that is the definition of the hobby for me. I dont have time to go to the flying field, 5 hours away, so I just fly the umx planes in my backyard. Almost all of mine within a month or 2 have failed linear servos. The only issue is that the planes with the servos problems are the ones I haven't even crashed!
@@TailHeavyProductions I don’t want to nag but I’m getting into the hobby and am asking if you have any planes that I can buy? I don’t want to buy a brand new one for full to learn on as I may crash it
Regret 1: It's a grrrbage expensive ripoff hobby that won't get you flying. You'll spend thousands of dollars and fly for maybe 5 to 15 minutes... all together. You're way better off buying a flight simulator, you can fly for thousands of hours any time you want for a few hundred bucks.
@@TailHeavyProductions You said it true and common right at the start of this video and point number 1. I'm just saying... yup. This hobby swcked. Stop recommending it. Worst hobby ever. For me it was a career change from being an employee at Lowes, to become an FPV pilot, when it was hyped as the next new hot career. Only it was not. I don't know about you, but I'm not someone who could just throw 2,500 dollars away at something and have it not work. Following the lye of RC was a major extra financial hardship and loss on top of looking for a new job at the time. I don't even look at my pile of RC stuff any more. It was a bad financial mistake. I should of never listened to YT influencers. It wasn't fun, it led nowhere, it was a 100% waste of money, and it never paid for itself back. I don't know how anybody could recommend RC to anybody else at all for any reason hobby, fun, career, or otherwise, in good conscience.
As far as FPV goes I got the DJI setup for my Aeroscout and after a few months I finally got another O3 Air Unit for my 70mm Viper. It completely redefines the experience for me
Fpv is amazing fun if you have others with you.
I swear to you, the fpv light weight camera on the Ultrix 600mm is absolutely an experience to have. Place a 3s 2200mAh in there and it's 18 minutes of amazing fun
@@trentwalker989 I got an FXT Viper goggle with Caddx cams for my Cinewhoop. I also flew briefly from the cockpit of my Scout. The range of the camera was so limiting, I gave it up.
I’m on a budget:
Got a beginner plane for fun
Wanted a fpv
Got a camera and connected for under £30
Works well
FPV is so much more fun than LOS. Been flying FPV for 15 years … keeps getting more fun. You can be 2 miles away , on the top of a mountain , instead of flying circles around a neighborhood park. The main reason is , that FPV is so immersive. Just as we imagined when we were little, you are in the plane flying it. Aerial exploration with FPV is amazing, don’t give up so easily.
No one is giving up - just different passions for different things. Glad you found your niche!
Day 1 of asking for nitro timber.
I agree but why not with a da 120???😂
Yeee
You could mod that 2.0 meter timber to be nitro without too much difficultly I bet
EDF TIMBER
If only we had a Cox 049 powered turbo timber 😔
4:40 wow do I feel called out lmao. Even discussed this a few times in the discord group when I got my umx b17 XD
If it's within your budget, purchase a transmitter with more channels than you currently need. As you grow in the hobby, you might outgrow your transmitter and wish you had purchased a better one earlier.
12: Becoming an RC Pilot
That one i dont regret one bit
@@hotheadedfilmshhf6734 I do.
I spent about $2,500 on stuff to get started and only flew one flight for less than 5 minutes.
After I destroyed my first model on the bench, I never wanted anything to do with it ever again. It was that traumatic.
I could of bought airline tickets to anywhere in the world for me and a friend and flown more and had a better time.
RC was a total rlpoff. Like the guy said at the start, it's a common scenario in FPV.
Horizon Hobby, their affordable birds with Spectrum Safe Select, & their sim pretty much was all I needed to flourish as a pilot these days. Easily starting the hobby and gaining confidence and abilities for cheaper than most other RC hobbies.
I started with multirotors, and have since branched into a little bit of planes and tanks. Thanks to the fact that much of this gear is so versatile, it's been cheap and easy to hop around. To this day, I've not lost a single vehicle. Came close a few times, but everything still operates! My poor Dolphin sure took a beating when I was learning plane stuff, but acrylic hot glue heals many wounds!
I am all ELRS at this point and all the receivers have built in telemetry. I set it up for the first time on my most resent plane. I only use battery voltage but having that information has been a game changer for me. Knowing the current level with a warning when voltage is low allows me to fly without worrying that I'm going to kill the battery and having a forced landing. I fly smaller batteries now. Saves money on batteries and weight in the plane.
A regret when I was flying balsas and nitro helis in the 80's and 90's that took several "incidents" to learn - forgetting to bring a garbage bag to the field to take the pieces home (or to the club dumpster). 😮
Amazing guys ❤ Happy August
I can relate to flying in wind being iffy, but a umx timber x in 15mph wind is so fun
Join a club?! The entry fee for an organized club here in Norway is about 200 USD per year, 3/4 of which is for national buerocracy, and that is with no certainty of a useful local airfield that is open in weekends😢 Go bush pilots!
It's not black and white across all cultures unfortunately, but the club community aspect is a huge winning part that we wish more folks could regularly have access to. Sorry to hear Norway is restrictive.
@@TailHeavyProductionsmy local club has 4 crotchety old men who fly loud gassers and laugh at my foamies. That said, there are also a few young flyers I am mentoring and a few 20-something’s that are fun to fly with.
Bro my club costs 650 USD a year and it's like a miletery camp😅 and believe me it's worth it it doesn't have to be a club but don't go flying alone in your back yard
Clubs might have the dreaded nazi crew with the philosophical " "Rules for ye, not for me" attitude
Absolutely the worst part about the hobby are the clubs with the nazis
Very thorough list of regrets! Kinda surprised FPV is #1. But I guess it does get boring after a while if flying solo - we don’t get to see the beautiful plane we are flying which is the biggest draw for flying RC. I recommend flying FPV in close formation with a buddy as a cure🙂
Hey, you of all people know how much more fun FPV is with a friend! Spread the word!
@@TailHeavyProductionsWill do! Too much fun flying, not as motivated to edit videos, thanks for the kick in the butt😅
As you said, "... if you started in LoS...". I suspect FPV is more popular than you think, just not with the LoS people. The long range guys, for example, may not be talking about what they're up to as much as they used to.
Super awesome subject Man ! I hope you get a stream of regrets come in and make a part 2 3 and 4 😉🙃 NZ
Number 6 is me all day long! 🤣🤣 You guys are the best!
Once I went FPV I haven't looked back. Been flying since '89 and now I only bring my LOS planes along so they don't get lonely.
2:28 Me and my instructor practicing landings the day before the check ride:
I need the Bayley mugschot T-shirt.
My biggest mistake I’ve made several times. Selling a plane I know I love in order to buy a plane I think is better or more fun.
My go-to Horizon plane has always been the Eflite Valiant 1.3. But there have been 2 or 3 occasions where I sold it wanting the money to buy a Timber, Air Tractor, RV7, etc. Only to find out afterwards it flys terrible, or just simply doesn’t fly the way I want it to. So I then sell that plane and buy another Valiant.
Nowadays, while I don’t fly Horizon planes as much since I’m a FliteTest fan, I’m never without a Valiant in my hangar. And I will never sell it to buy another plane, unless of course it’s another Valiant. Great video as always, guys!
Side note: I’m not sure if you guys have flown the Valiant, but it’d be cool if you guys did a review.
So true! Very good video as always!
Painfully accurate
Twisted Hobbies are great but they are so lightweight that any wind makes them un-flyable. I wanted to like them and went back to an Eratix as I can fly them in more wind. The Eratix isn’t as forgiving. Lastly the Twisted Hobbies requires a lot of building and considering the high cost I’ll never buy another one.
Interesting if true
I think regret with telemetry comes more from expectations, rather than the telemetry itself. You don't buy a tool, like a tape measure, expecting it to bring you happiness. So why buy telemetry tools that measure other things and expect them to bring you happiness?
I say the regret comes in expecting them to enhance your experience, instead of seeing them for what they are--tools/utilities that aren't needed all the time, but are useful when you do have a use for them.
Telemetry is just extra information. When you are flying, most extra information is not useful because you can't use it... until circumstances change and the relevant telemetry suddenly becomes very useful. Voltage telemetry is frequently useful because that constantly changes, even when things are working correctly. However, other forms of telemetry often have pretty stable values (unless you are doing things like long range FPV). So they are less useful most time. But, if you ever had a problem in flight, telemetry can help you figure out what is happening (especially if you log it so you can review it later). Similarly, if you ever make a change to a plane, telemetry can help give you object values to compare the differences, rather that subjective opinions like (this feels a bit slower, or less responsive).
on the topic of hardware; when I bought a Horizon hobby carbonZ T-28, I wanted to put a scale triblade on it so bad, but I knew that the stock ESC would not last long if I actually went with a triblade,
and so when I got that beautiful scale triblade, I also slapped a Robbe 130A opto ESC with sepparate power supply for the receiver on it and never had power/heat issues again. it was costly, but a good investment and it immediately made the plane look twice as good
Well done! I'm a fail safe victim. 😅 John E, who gave you his glider, came and flew at our field last weekend. Talk to John if you want to come down sometime. 👍
umx gee bee you will always be in my heart
get a fpv combat set and have some combats with your friends! you will redefine the meaning of Fun in fpv
#12 Joining a club. I've been a member of many. In my experience, there's always a large contingent of guys whom love interpersonal drama, gossip and moaning. They also love to try to suck others into the same. No thank you. The last day I can fly by myself will be the last day I fly.
Thankfully not all clubs are this way - but there are definitely a good chunk that are.
I tried FPV to fly my Flite Test Scout from the cockpit. Couldn't really see much, and lost signal early and often. Found a cheap cinewhoop to practice with, and tried to chase my son's planes, but it wasn't fast enough and often couldn't mimic his quick moves. Haven't used it in two years.
i just started a channel based on fpv . i cant get enough! i started a year ago fpv and motionsi, Tom Hunt and Airguardian were the main reasons .my depth perception flying los is terrible and expensive lol
I think telemetry depend on what you fly, I slope soar and having receiver battery voltage can be very useful when you have been flying for an hour and wonder if you should land to check your battery pack, likewise altimeters can be useful.
I like your videos always makes me 😊 I tried FPV years ago it was interesting that was ten years ago .
My custom FPV Acro Freestyle 5in. Quads fly through 25mph winds like it's not even blowing 😅
This got posted right after my new plane arrived
I cancled my on back order UMX timber evo for a crack yak 3 weeks ago, got it in 4 days back. glueing and hope to maiden it tomorrow.. And I doubt I will ever get that umx after..
My motor RPM are not critical, but I reached a point where battery voltage is! I got tired of setting up chronometers in the radio, and either landing with a lot of juice or lowering the batteries a bit too much.
About RPM telemetry... yeah, not a neccesity, but well, once you get used to it, it is also hard to skip, even if you look at that only once to tune your motor timmings.
I agree on the rest of the points. I am one of that guys who spent a lot in FPV equipment I very rarely use. Oh well :)
Been there done that with non foam safe glue I glued it and came back 2 hrs later to no more plane left haha
just bought my first plane! #REGRET
goods advises! thanks from belgium ;)
The absolute Number 1 Regrets that Anybody could ever do............. Is.............Never start flying RC Airplanes. Sad is the Man who Never flew RC Airplanes. Great video buddy.
FPV makes everything better!!!!!!!! And it's, when in doubt, THROTTLE out!
Ali express has saved me so much money it’s not even funny. It’s crazy to pay someone $70 for a fc stack at a united states vendor when it’ll come from Ali within 2 weeks for half the price. The American tax is real & those vendors know y’all are breaking your gear
100% agree with the failsafe i did not set one up and lost signal and lost my 3k cub into a full speed nosedive
Recently maidened a new foamie 3D plane and hated the way it flew. Came home to find the carbon fibre spa hidden on the work bench. Regret being stupid.
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Following trends will often lead to regrets.
Fly what YOU like not what everyone else likes.
Love the ai thumbnails I love doing the same lemme know what u use I use vidiq!
criminal that you dont get more views, such a good channel and you can always get me to laugh
No mentioning the photo contest winners from july? why?
I have a question. Is there a cheap yet durable RC de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver (no floats) under $50 USD that could fit on a dresser?
#1 regret: not flying when you could have. #2 regret: getting to the field and forgetting essentials i.e. batteries or transmitter ...I swear I've never done that. 😇🤪
ehm..... if u knew the local community in my country u'd stay away from clubs at all costs LOL
#6 is harsh truth. X(
And if you're a self taught old country boy with no hobby stores you will figure how fix anything.
make a aeroscout durability test
Mechanical turbulence, happened to me with my Spitfire during landing, and I put it in a tree
The most common regret I have seen in 50 years of RC, next to not joining a club at once, is overbuying. Too many of us fill our attics with unopened kits we will never get around to. I will be 350 years old before I get through my own stack of seductive boxes, even if it should miraculously stop growing right now. So stick to the planes you love to fly and already optimized, don’t waste time maidening and tweaking awkward designs. Amass flights, not foam! Or balsa, if you are of my age.
13: Building a discontinued heli kit (the website literally doesnt exist) without help
Just finished 3D printing a plane, it weighs over 2 pounds
With a 1 meter wingspan….
Hmm thumbnail looks familiar 😜
#11: accidentally dropping your transmitter in the lake. (God help me they wont repair it and i cant afford a new one :(
My regret? Failing to appreciate that concentrating on the model makes it look twice as close as it really is. Found that out by trying to fly between myself and a tree. 😢
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My wife's ostrich was a victim of a failsafe. It then stomped the plane to pieces. Flying on my ranch is hazardous to my planes. The animals always try to attack it when I'm trying to land. They are A-holes!
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#1 regret = forgetting battery checker and taking off with flat batteries and trying to keep the plane above 'normal' 50% throttle to get back to landing.
Re: FPV, kind of a Catch-22 there. Go cheap and the experience is going to be so bad you don't continue.
I would recommend the top mistake is not buying a simulator then going to buy a 70mm edf then crashing it in seconds that’ll discourage most to not pickup the hobby again
I recently bought a voltanex rc p40 and broke the 3 included props the first thay flying in mu backyard. (Does someone know where to buy oryginal props but cheaper i want something like 20 props for 20 bucks or less)
The only telemetry you really need is a low voltage warning.
Potentially altitude and distance just for building 3d awareness/farsight.
You hit the nail! Again!
Well at this point fpv-quads are my duty(I am from 🇺🇦 btw), but even after end of war, I want to travel and pursuit objects with 4k camera, or just shoot some views.
For me, after quads, at this moment at least, I want to use rc's with fpv cameras. Maybe due to my occupation I did not feel interesting all this vibes from remote control in 3rd person
I had 5 perfect flights on my 70mm Yak-130. I always landed in a gentle descent under power right to the runway. On flight 6, I used flaps and decided to flare. Enter tip stall at 3’. Tore off the nose, wingtips and tail. Hmmmm. WTF. No flare for you.
do you ship to Poland?
Learning to fly a glider, a *good* glider, goes a long way to being able to fly in wind. Also, crow braking lets you land virtually anywhere. And once you get comfortable flying that glider, you'll find you became a much better pilot somewhere along the way. One side effect, however, is that 100 mph edfs will, at some point, begin to look slow. Really slow. Your poor wallet...
the only telemetry I have is battery voltage
1:45 if i ever get a plane that has telemetry i will ONLY set up battery alarms. Nothing else.
Day 2 can I buy a fun cub off of you guys
Yeaaaaah nah fam
give him his fun cub
The regret of trying to do a stunt in front of my marching band and realizing I was way too low…
I love your videos!!
I have found that the R/C clubs of today require everybody's planes to be registered with the FAA and have a TRUST certificate as well as the normal AMA requirement.There even pushing the use of remote ID.Im glad I no longer fly at a club,I just fly at my local club.
The funny thing is - AMA clubs can't legally enforce federal requirements. If a club is enforcing remote ID then that's an entirely different issue. Every club needs a FRIA which doesn't require a remote ID to be used while flying at.
real shih
I crashed my timber because of wind sheer. The wind stopped and the plane stalled.
FPV for me is the total opposite, I find LOS flying boring as all hell ever since I have gone FPV. I only fly FPV now unless its a maiden. Way more of an interactive experience.
first view!
My club banned FPV :(
I made three planes out of foamboard, and each one only lasted like 30 seconds
My biggest regret is not getting more channels on my first Tx! Anyone want to buy a dx6 or 2?
If RC is so great, how come you don't have a pilot job flying RC,
but instead are here wasting your life making videos about toys for free for RUclips, that nobody pays you to do or pays you to watch.
We love flying RC toys - as do many people all around the world. We're passionate about sharing our love and outside the box approach to the hobby via videos to inspire and introduce even more folks to our awesome hobby. It's a labor of love. We're sorry to hear you don't feel the same way, but everyone has different interests. Nothing wrong with that!
Coming from FPV drones I cant imagine to go to LOS wings, why are pilots dropping FPV?
It costs money, it adds weight and complexity to the plane, it helps to know how to fly LOS in the event of a failure of the equipment for whatever reason, disorientation while performing stunts, etc. You would NEVER want to add a full FPV system to a profile foamie like the Twisted Hobbies planes mentioned in the beginning of the video for example. Also some people just enjoy watching the entire plane fly, not just a real-world version of a flight simulator. The only things drones and R/C airplanes have in common is that they both fly and use batteries, otherwise it's a completely different branch of the hobby and needs to be treated as such.
After flighttest this channel is the best on RUclips
Day one of asking to buy a umx air tractor off you all
Why not buy it from horizon hobby?
Uhhh we don't even have one. Linear servos = RIP
@TailHeavyProductions that is the definition of the hobby for me. I dont have time to go to the flying field, 5 hours away, so I just fly the umx planes in my backyard. Almost all of mine within a month or 2 have failed linear servos. The only issue is that the planes with the servos problems are the ones I haven't even crashed!
@@TailHeavyProductions ok ok
@@TailHeavyProductions I don’t want to nag but I’m getting into the hobby and am asking if you have any planes that I can buy? I don’t want to buy a brand new one for full to learn on as I may crash it
You're telling me bro I bought a $18 ESC off Amazon for my RC crawler boom caught on fire in Florida we live in Ohio
I will defntly use PCBWAY for my scratch build rc planes ,so thanks for the idea👍👍
are there any video comments in the future about experiensive 16 channel radios and cheaper 16 chanel radios that are not spektrum.?
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Telemetry is a gimmick you have been conditioned to think you need: JUST FLY THE DAMN AIRPLANE 😂
I’m 15 and a balsa boy and my favorite plane is my 6ft telemaster
I’ll bounce one on for ya
Regret 1: It's a grrrbage expensive ripoff hobby that won't get you flying.
You'll spend thousands of dollars and fly for maybe 5 to 15 minutes... all together.
You're way better off buying a flight simulator, you can fly for thousands of hours any time you want for a few hundred bucks.
Interesting if true.
@@TailHeavyProductions You said it true and common right at the start of this video and point number 1. I'm just saying... yup. This hobby swcked. Stop recommending it. Worst hobby ever. For me it was a career change from being an employee at Lowes, to become an FPV pilot, when it was hyped as the next new hot career. Only it was not. I don't know about you, but I'm not someone who could just throw 2,500 dollars away at something and have it not work. Following the lye of RC was a major extra financial hardship and loss on top of looking for a new job at the time. I don't even look at my pile of RC stuff any more. It was a bad financial mistake. I should of never listened to YT influencers. It wasn't fun, it led nowhere, it was a 100% waste of money, and it never paid for itself back.
I don't know how anybody could recommend RC to anybody else at all for any reason hobby, fun, career, or otherwise, in good conscience.
@@spitfeueranna Sorry to hear you had that experience! 😓It's all relative.
When is a plane catching fire not funny as ………..????????
#2 is real. i feel the only actually useful telemetry is battery voltage and even then you can do without