"Wes" wrote in message
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"RogerN" wrote:

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There is a new hobby shop in town. Nice guy, I doubt he has a chance of
making it though.
Failed on the location, location, location thing. Town of 4000 off the
main road.

Almost broke out the debit card on a helo yesterday. (not the credit
card)

Got to pay off the propane bill, finish off the heated in winter machine
room in corner of
garage er shop before I engage in buying another toy.

Doing niche retail in the days of mail order over the internet is a scary
place to be.

When I get closer to pulling the trigger on the helo, I'll re-read your
comments you made
last winter. I really want a helo. The package I'd carry would be a
camera. I am not
into the coaxial large scale air hog equivalents. I want it to have all
the functions of a
real helo.

Wes

There are some nice videos on youtube of FPV RC (first person view). Are
you planning to fly from the camera view? There are some video goggles and
head tracking sensors that let you fly the model and the camera will pan and
tilt as you turn your head. I've read that one problem for new pilots is
flying the model out of range. This isn't a problem most R/C heli flying
since it's generally in range if you can see it, but the FPV stuff, you can
fly beyond line of sight, lose signal and :-( I saw they have equipment now
that works with GPS, if you fly your model out of range, it's supposed to
automatically return to the take off point. This stuff could be kind of
scary if you realize how it could be abused... a GPS guided aircraft is not
that far off from a cruise missile, now add a .45 and video recognition
software... For a test I sent one out to capture TMT and it came back with
a box of Hostess Ding Dongs :-)

RogerN