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Comment on what hobby should I take interest in? Airsoft guns or Rc Helicopters? by Philip

Philip — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:17:59 +0000

Well, you can go to an airsoft field and rent equipment. If you like it, the answer is obvious. Also, don’t worry about your friend not liking it. Once they see an airsoft gun/game/impression they’ll be hooked (happened to me, now more than 5 of my friends airsoft)
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I was basically in the same situation as you 5 years ago

Comment on what hobby should I take interest in? Airsoft guns or Rc Helicopters? by Tanner [taz]

Tanner [taz] — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:39:59 +0000

Well both are fun but i think you should go with the rc helicopters because you can get better at it and fly in more extreme places but air soft guns are fun too but sense you don’t have any friends then it won’t be as fun just shooting at other things but I have a rc helicopter and when you get better at it you can do so much more stuff so it gets better and better. I also have a air soft gun too but i don’t use it as much any more because it gets boring after a while and on helicopters you can upgrade them and make them go faster and higher
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Comment on what hobby should I take interest in? Airsoft guns or Rc Helicopters? by Lewis

Lewis — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:06:59 +0000

shoo the helicoptres with the airsft guns
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Comment on what hobby should I take interest in? Airsoft guns or Rc Helicopters? by Kristen S

Kristen S — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:45:59 +0000

I’ll say do both cuz both sound fun even if ur friends dnt wanna do airsoft guns it still might be fun
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Comment on Remote controlled helicopter battlefield bad company 2? by Tony

Tony — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:41:59 +0000

The Small Helicopter is a UAV and it only shoots a single guided missiles (rockets) about every 15 secs? The other weapon i think you may be seeing is the machine gun when you use "Alt Wep" to your Vehicle specialization slot.

If you have the limited edition game you get the "Alt wep" Specialization when you begin the game. If you don’t you need to level your vehicle class to the max and get it.

Note: The Machine gun does run out of ammo and the UAV is most of the time located near the attackers base, look for a small white box with a V in it.
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I have Battlefield bad company 2 for the PS3

Comment on Remote controlled helicopter battlefield bad company 2? by civil_av8r

civil_av8r — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:12:59 +0000

You get guided missiles that shoot about once every 30 sec and also a gun turret, but you have to have the unlock to use that.
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Comment on Are RC Helicopters like Video Games? by civil_av8r

civil_av8r — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:02:59 +0000

Video games are a decent starting point for learning the basics of helicopters. I love playing with the helicopters in Battlefield games. The video games, however, do make the helicopters a lot easier to control by usually making them a lot more stable, easier to hover, able to maintain altitude without input, and don’t take into account torque effects. With a r/c model the left stick usually controls the throttle/blade pitch and rudder. The right stick is for aircraft pitch and roll. On 3-D birds you can flip a switch and hold the throttle at a certain position then the throttle stick controls only the pitch of the blades. If the blades are setup for negative pitch then you can do inverted tricks. If you are looking into r/c helicopters I would recommend starting with a simple electric bird

http://www.horizonhobby.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=EFLH3000

This one costs about $160 and comes with everything you need. Stay away from coaxial birds, the ones without rudders, because they usually fly like crap. This one is good for learning the basics of heli flight. What you would want to do is learn hovering first. Keep the tail pointed at you and fly it no higher than your belt. Just practice maintaining a hover. If it gets out of control, land it and start over. Do this for about a week non stop. After you learn hovering, start learning how to move it forward, backwards, stopping, side to side, and spinning it with the rudder. You may even want to try hovering it with the nose pointed at you. Go slow too. Do this for a week non stop. Next start doing figure 8’s well above your head. This will teach you how to turn while banking with the rudder and teach you how to control the birds while it is flying at you too (controls become reversed). Once you’ve mastered basic flying of a heli you can move up to more complicated 3-D birds. I can’t stress this enough, if you’re considering flying r/c helis, to start with a cheap bird. You don’t want to go out and buy a $500 3-D electric or spend $1500 on a gas powered bird and crash it beyond repairs on your first flight.
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Myself, Aerospace Engineer, building Blackhawks, fly r/c birds and play video games.

Comment on Are RC Helicopters like Video Games? by sween d

sween d — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:39:59 +0000

In no way are they like video games except the control method. RC heli’s are way more complicated, you have to adjust your trims all the time and have to take into account wind. Where in a video game they fly good most of the time and from what I have seen, wind doesn’t play that much of a part and if you crash it you just hit reset.
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Comment on Are RC Helicopters like Video Games? by Steve

Steve — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:04:59 +0000

I just purchased this one ——-> http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-YIBOO-Mini-COBRA-Helicopter-Ages-8-Infrared_W0QQitemZ370344673532QQcmdZViewItemQQptZRadio_Control_Vehicles?hash=item563a4340fc and REALLY enjoy it. It’s also durable and cheap! I’m no sales rep for the company, this is just my personal experience.
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Comment on Are RC Helicopters like Video Games? by Josh

Josh — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:47:59 +0000

Yes but much more difficult and realistic. In a video game, you cant have very specific details such as what effect that certain speeds of wind is or an unbalanced rc.
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