Nitro Helicopters are great if you have DEEP pockets. You need to find an Approved Field to fly them. Also, you better have a cool dry place to store your NITRO!
I don't
But my parents do.. kinda.. they earn a pretty good wage but inherit more money than they deserve
and spend it all on hobbies.
But yeh RH Helicopters are just stupidly hard to control, In one crash i totally ruined a £500 Trex 600 moded helicopter, there was only £60 worth of parts salvageable.
RC Cars and trucks arn't much cheeper, i've been looking at them since this thread started and it seems electric actually outperforms Nitro now. If you use LiPo's that is. But it's crazy expensive, a HPI Savage Flux costs £580, it needs two batteries which cost £110 each.
We just store 30percent nitro fuel in the garage, no problems. It's not much worse than petrol, put some petrol on the floor and nitro on the floor the only difference is Nitro makes a pop because it likes significantly faster, but it doesn't light noticeably easier, burns for a shorter time too. It's handy for cleaning out ants nests though.
And have huge amounts of patients.
Takes years.... or deep pockets.. To get good.
Holy ****
YouTube - RC Helicopter demo
Electric but WOW
Yeh, he doesn't touch Alan Szabo but he's still very good. Never underestimate electric