Hi!

My name is Rapha, I am a student at Paderborn University and I am in the RC hobby for a good 3 years now. I  first started as a child when I wished for a fast RC car but never got one (only crappy slow ones ). 
So I saved some money and started with a Traxxas Mini Revo 1/16 in 2013 and got totally hooked. So far I've build a Traxxaas Rustler (for racing friends)  and a Traxxas Slash 4x4 (for just having tons of fun, 2kg - 2000W ). I still enjoy driving them as you get approximately 30 minutes of driving time per battery and the are crazy fast (70 km/h+)

In June 2015 desaster happened: I've found another passion.
I watched a documentation about metaldanny I knew that this may be the next step for me and I began reading.
In January this year I finally started building my first Mini-Quad (ZMR250) and had lots of fun flying it, though I'm not good at flying (yet) and have spend even more time fixing.
At the end of the month I am starting to build another Quad and I even sold one of my RC-Cars for that (cars are more expensive to build but cheaper to run )

I hope to post a few videos soon in which I chase my brother in law with his little 1/10 scale.
Also I plan on building a little FPV backpack to drive my RC-cars.

BTW: To me this forum feels like a second home already!
Thank you for all your help so far - will be needing a lot more I fear!

Welcome aboard Rapha, good to have you.

Nice to have you Phara
how do you race RC cars without FPV? lol it would be like racing quads line of sight which is kind of hard to control orientation?

(14-Sep-2016, 10:27 AM)Oscar Wrote: Nice to have you Phara
how do you race RC cars without FPV? lol it would be like racing quads line of sight which is kind of hard to control orientation?

Racing RC cars is easy once you get used to it. I used to race indoor touring cars, orientation is easy because the cars didn't travel too far.

Hamster is right, as long as you are not too far away and you're under 60 km/h you've got no problem at all. Plus you've got only  2 channels - messing up two channels is very hard!
Basically a quad on wheels - if you compare it to a DJI