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Another heli pilot! I've got a Raptor 30. As a kid, I always imagined that the coolest toy - the toy to top all possible toys - was a remote control helicopter. I wasn't even sure they existed, but I knew that if they did, they'd be way too expensive for a 10 year old. 2 years ago I was telling a friend about my lifelong dream of owning an RC helicopter, still somehow holding the assumption that having my very own was not possible, and they said "why don't you get one?"
I thought about it for a minute and it hit me - I can actually afford one if I want it. So off I went. Turns out flying an RC heli is one of the hardest things I've ever done. It pretty much requires the ability to do out-of-body experiences to get your mind into the helicopter. Such concentration and focus, and if you loose it for one second, you will crash (trust me on this one).
Still, nothing beats that transcendental experience of looking at a tiny helicopter, that mechanically is basically the same thing as a full sized heli, and realizing that you are controlling it.
My gurl doesn't like it when I talk about helicopters in public. She can pass me off as a non-nerd until the topic of helicopters comes up. Yes, we need a board for hobbies.
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