Hello, my name is Charles and I’m a Yuneec Typhoon H+ junky.
I got introduced to the fabulous hobby of drone flight back in June of 2019 when my wife and I were in a LHS in Greensboro, NC and I was getting myself a Father’s Day gift of a RedCat Gen8 crawler/trail truck. While I was talking to the owner, my wife was talking to a salesman about other stuff. This other stuff turned out to be drones.
I have always loved flying model planes. Back when I was just a wee lad of about 10 or 11 years old, I heard a loud but small buzzing sound at a nearby airport while in the store just off to the side of it. I walked around trying to find what it was and saw the greatest sight of my young life. Turned out to be ½A control line flying by some people I had never met. Since our family had little money for such frivolities, I soon became the go to boy for cranking engines and holding for take offs. I was in Heaven!
Soon one of the kids my age took pity on me and offered to teach me how to fly these wonderful things. Naturally, I accepted.
I was soon able to fly a full tank out without getting dizzy and crashing. He offered me one of his older planes and an engine that needed some TLC and I saved my lunch money until I could pay for it and away I went.
I progressed onward to 35/40 sized planes such as the Sterling (IIRC) Ringmaster and others powered by Fox 35 Stunts and finally to a Fox 40 Stunt.
I had a ball learning to do loops, figure 8s and especially inverted flight. After I was grown, I got my first RC plane, a Goldberg Falcon 56MKII. Years later and much money spent, life and an ex stopped my fun for awhile.
FF to this year and back to the local hobby shop. The wife asked me if I might be interested in a drone. Well, at 64 years of age, I think pretty quick and never missed a beat saying, “YES!” So I walked out of the store with not only my RedCat Gen8 but a new RISE Archon drone. As I read the manual, I found that one requirement was to have an Amateur Radio License of at least the Technician level. What luck! I have held a Extra Class HAM license since about 1998. This drone uses the 6 meter HAM band for its radio and it works well. What I liked was it has its own view screen and no flipping cell phone needed, just like my Typhoon H+.
I bought and flew quite a few lesser drones of the BangGood variety and finally decided I would get me at least one good drone so I went looking for a Typhoon H Pro. Called that same LHS and inquired about the H Pro and the owner asked if I was set on that particular model and I asked him what he had in mind. Seems he had an H+ that he needed to part with quick so he could free up some cash for something else the store needed, and he let me have the H+ at a slightly reduced price. I got that thing home and I was so afraid of it that it sat for over a month under my hobby table. I kept practicing with the little drones and even crash/landed 4 times in a drone eating maple tree in my back lot turned RC playground.
FINALLY, I said, “The **** thing is mine, paid for and I was surely going to fly it even if I did crash it!”
Turns out it is the easiest thing I have ever flown, period.
Well, things led me here, so I’ll hang out some, if you don’t mind. I may not be a wealth of info, but I’ll do what I can while reading your stuff and learning all I can.
Thank you guys and gals for having me.
Charles/AKA Grumpy Old Man RC
I got introduced to the fabulous hobby of drone flight back in June of 2019 when my wife and I were in a LHS in Greensboro, NC and I was getting myself a Father’s Day gift of a RedCat Gen8 crawler/trail truck. While I was talking to the owner, my wife was talking to a salesman about other stuff. This other stuff turned out to be drones.
I have always loved flying model planes. Back when I was just a wee lad of about 10 or 11 years old, I heard a loud but small buzzing sound at a nearby airport while in the store just off to the side of it. I walked around trying to find what it was and saw the greatest sight of my young life. Turned out to be ½A control line flying by some people I had never met. Since our family had little money for such frivolities, I soon became the go to boy for cranking engines and holding for take offs. I was in Heaven!
Soon one of the kids my age took pity on me and offered to teach me how to fly these wonderful things. Naturally, I accepted.
I was soon able to fly a full tank out without getting dizzy and crashing. He offered me one of his older planes and an engine that needed some TLC and I saved my lunch money until I could pay for it and away I went.
I progressed onward to 35/40 sized planes such as the Sterling (IIRC) Ringmaster and others powered by Fox 35 Stunts and finally to a Fox 40 Stunt.
I had a ball learning to do loops, figure 8s and especially inverted flight. After I was grown, I got my first RC plane, a Goldberg Falcon 56MKII. Years later and much money spent, life and an ex stopped my fun for awhile.
FF to this year and back to the local hobby shop. The wife asked me if I might be interested in a drone. Well, at 64 years of age, I think pretty quick and never missed a beat saying, “YES!” So I walked out of the store with not only my RedCat Gen8 but a new RISE Archon drone. As I read the manual, I found that one requirement was to have an Amateur Radio License of at least the Technician level. What luck! I have held a Extra Class HAM license since about 1998. This drone uses the 6 meter HAM band for its radio and it works well. What I liked was it has its own view screen and no flipping cell phone needed, just like my Typhoon H+.
I bought and flew quite a few lesser drones of the BangGood variety and finally decided I would get me at least one good drone so I went looking for a Typhoon H Pro. Called that same LHS and inquired about the H Pro and the owner asked if I was set on that particular model and I asked him what he had in mind. Seems he had an H+ that he needed to part with quick so he could free up some cash for something else the store needed, and he let me have the H+ at a slightly reduced price. I got that thing home and I was so afraid of it that it sat for over a month under my hobby table. I kept practicing with the little drones and even crash/landed 4 times in a drone eating maple tree in my back lot turned RC playground.
FINALLY, I said, “The **** thing is mine, paid for and I was surely going to fly it even if I did crash it!”
Turns out it is the easiest thing I have ever flown, period.
Well, things led me here, so I’ll hang out some, if you don’t mind. I may not be a wealth of info, but I’ll do what I can while reading your stuff and learning all I can.
Thank you guys and gals for having me.
Charles/AKA Grumpy Old Man RC
