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Glad to be here!
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Hey, registered as I've bought an x220 from BG, and have a broken x220s I'd like to get around to fixing!

Love flying drones, started with a Syma, made of rubbish plastic and featherlight! It was flying that in my garden that sparked the desire for a more powerful drone, where I could do the tricks and stunts I had seen on all the videos I had watched, after only searching "Drone"!


Anyways, the names Ben - I'm 25 from the UK, and I'm veeeery new to drones... But can't wait to get going properly.
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Welcome Ben! This is a great place to learn and share knowledge. You'll find lots of helpful folks here!
"Damn the torpedoes!!!  Full speed ahead!!!"
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Personally, I like flying multirotor craft. My drone is for aerial video and is no fun to fly as it does it automatically. Big Grin

Welcome to the forum Ben!
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Welcome to the forum Ben, I started out with a Syma as well. Still fly the trusty X5 every once in a while if it's not too windy. I think it gets lonely sitting in the basement too long..............
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hey Benh, Welcome! always good to see folks getting into the hobby. This is a good community to connect to for getting into it as well.
carl.vegas
Current Quads: Operational: Diatone GT2 200 In need of repair: Bumble Bee, tehStein,  Slightly modified Vortex 250 
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(25-Sep-2017, 05:19 PM)RENOV8R Wrote: Welcome to the forum Ben, I started out with a Syma as well.  Still fly the trusty X5 every once in a while if it's not too windy.  I think it gets lonely sitting in the basement too long..............

Ha! Mine sits shelved, so that when I go out flying and my girlfriend wants to come, she can fly that - ain't no way she's flying my Wizard!  ROFL

Thanks guys, already got some helpful threads bookmarked!
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(25-Sep-2017, 05:14 PM)unseen Wrote: Personally, I like flying multirotor craft. My drone is for aerial video and is no fun to fly as it does it automatically. Big Grin


Welcome to into FPV Ben, congrats on finding the best forum for multirotor's anywhere online, I hope you find the forum as great as I do! 


You might have noticed this reply from unseen was a little fraught..? 
There is some friction around the use of the word 'drone' due to militaristic implications and other negative press regarding spying etc.
I agree with unseen and also feel that a 'drone' is something that has the capability to fly autonomously, I have been trying (but failing!) to introduce 'flone' as an alternative to describe aerobatic and racing craft, as they do actually need to be err... Flown.

Anyway man, I hope you get your x220s back in the air, and that maybe your girlfriend can learn to fly that? I also hope that she takes to the hobby better than my Mrs, who thinks its just wasting money on 'stupid toys'!
Windless fields and smokeless builds
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"Flone"

ROFL 

I still think "quadcopter" is the best word for what most of us fly or "hexacopter", "tricopter", etc depending on the number of motors. The "copter" part is widely understood to mean a rotor craft and when it comes to drones, they can just as well be a fixed wing craft as they can a rotor craft.

It's the beyond line of sight and autonomous nature of their control that makes something a drone, not the fact that it has rotors.
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Welcome to intoFPV, Ben!! I hope after reading all of these replies, that you are still "glad to be here"! Big Grin

Call 'em whatever you want - just get out and fly 'em! Good to have you here!
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#10
Hi Ben, welcome! Always good to have a good knowledge base when you start off, enjoy!
Check out my videos @ www.youtube.com/Marcelfint and let me know what you think!
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