Ok, now that I've gotten a few hours' sleep I can give a better intro. I go by Torch because that is what I call it when I take an exceedingly large dirt sample with a plane. I have been into flying and aviation since I was.... 12??? The date doesnt really matter anyway. Lets just say I've been into flying since I was a kid. I'm now 36 so way more than half my life. I have flown many full scale planes from the cessna 152, cassna 210, a 737( yes back in the days when the pilots were allowed to invite guests into the cockpit), to even a T-38 Talon! I was in the civil air patrol in high school and enjoyed the heck out of that, too! Countless thousands of hours on many different sims. And on and on..... I finally took up RC in May, 2013 after buying my first toy heli and flying that indoors for a couple weeks. Bought my first true RC plane (5ch A10 65mm EDF) and flew the paint off it for a couple months. Sadly, it developed a seve case of "taco-wing" one day banking into a turn and basically exploded on impact. Then, it was on to another, milder, trainer that I have called an L4 Grasshopper. Basically, a piper supercub. I love that little plane but its too docile for my flight tastes. So then I bought an Aerobeez full-fuse hybrid Sbach and found my true RC passion in 3D flying!!! There is nothing I love more than to be able to make an airplane do things that an airplane (according to the laws of aerodynamics) should not be able to do!! Building up my skills in 3D has been an awesome challenge and a total blast!! I still have the Sbach and fly it regularly. But then..... I saw the posting from Aerobeez that the next gen of hybrid EPP skinned planes was to become available for pre order! Ladies and Gents, the Extra 330 is here!!! I have only just gotten the airframe built (build review to follow) and have only just ordered the electronics, but let me say right now that this plane is AWESOME!!! Carbon fiber reinforcements and massive deflection make this, in my mind, a younger, extremier, snappier, brother to my Sbach! I'll save the rest of my thoughts on the Extra for the build thread.
I am most definitely addicted to RC flying! I currently have in my hanger 10 or 11 planes (cant remember at the moment), ranging between 2 large gassers, to small park flyer foamies! Flying is mostly what I think about and wish to be doing even when I am at work.
Oh! And I just got my copy of RF 7 to satisfy that itch when the weather is poor or I just dont want to make the drive to the field. That has been great for helping build up skills for sure! Well, this has turned into a rather long winded intro so I am going to sign off and say Happy New Year to everyone!
Happy Landings all!
