Posts: 15 Threads: 3 Likes Received: 8 in 7 posts Likes Given: 0 Joined: Sep 2017 Reputation: 1 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. Posts: 1,290 Threads: 67 Likes Received: 711 in 472 posts Likes Given: 1,216 Joined: Mar 2016 Reputation: 23 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!!!" Posts: 2,286 Threads: 38 Likes Received: 1,527 in 995 posts Likes Given: 1,881 Joined: Apr 2016 Reputation: 72 Personally, I like flying multirotor craft. My drone is for aerial video and is no fun to fly as it does it automatically. Welcome to the forum Ben! Posts: 1,773 Threads: 30 Likes Received: 1,199 in 755 posts Likes Given: 714 Joined: Oct 2016 Reputation: 45 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.............. Posts: 1,590 Threads: 89 Likes Received: 1,283 in 768 posts Likes Given: 1,274 Joined: Jan 2017 Reputation: 31 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 Posts: 15 Threads: 3 Likes Received: 8 in 7 posts Likes Given: 0 Joined: Sep 2017 Reputation: 1 (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! Thanks guys, already got some helpful threads bookmarked! Posts: 1,504 Threads: 83 Likes Received: 944 in 654 posts Likes Given: 2,142 Joined: Sep 2016 Reputation: 24 (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. 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 Posts: 2,286 Threads: 38 Likes Received: 1,527 in 995 posts Likes Given: 1,881 Joined: Apr 2016 Reputation: 72 "Flone" 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. Posts: 2,416 Threads: 51 Likes Received: 1,861 in 1,175 posts Likes Given: 3,315 Joined: Mar 2016 Reputation: 74 Welcome to intoFPV, Ben!! I hope after reading all of these replies, that you are still "glad to be here"! Call 'em whatever you want - just get out and fly 'em! Good to have you here! Posts: 72 Threads: 2 Likes Received: 32 in 22 posts Likes Given: 1 Joined: Jun 2017 Reputation: 0 Hi Ben, welcome! Always good to have a good knowledge base when you start off, enjoy! • |