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  1. What type is it (nitro / electric / small / large) etc? (link?) If it's one of these small 300g or less electric jobs (under a ton new) then as long as there's nobody else in the room go for it. If it's large (30 size nitro or equiv or one of the larger 400 motor sized electrics) you'll hurt someone, probably yourself, unless you learn how first Get hold of an RC simulator for your PC, put the hele in the cupboard for a few months and you'll save yourself hundreds and hundreds of pounds If it's small and electric and you have to try it before you know what you are doing then clear a big space and have a go.. Exact controls will vary but the left stick moved up generally gives you more head speed and more pitch (if it's collective pitch). Moved side to side that controls the tail rotor (or if it's not got one it will slow down one of the rotors to do the same thing) - this makes the tail turn in the direction you push the stick if you look at the heli from the back. The right stick up and down pushes the nose down and pulls it up for forwards and backwards (if you are looking at it from the back) Side to side that gives you roll right / left (used for turning). Get a training undercarriage for it as it's bumpy when you start. Start with the heli pointing away from you, stand behind it. Begin by spinning up the blades and getting used to the entirely left stick control of keeping the tail where it is. More RPM = more torque from the rota so you'll need more left stick (side to side). Which way depends on which way the blades spin and how many there are. Once you are used to that, practice getting it light on it's skids, don't take off just yet, but feel how it reacts. Once you start doing this you'll need to use the right stick to keep it in the same place. Use the right stick in the opposite direction to the thing it's doing (assuming it's still facing away from you) - if it turns round dump it, you'll need a bit more before you can do nose in. Once you are used to that summon up the bravery and go for a little hop, keep it small. Keep doing this until you get to about a good foot and a half without it spinning out of control. Helicopters are hard to control when they are flying in their own downwash, the effect of the air slamming into the ground and causing vortices - as soon as you are able you'll increase this height (what you need to get to depends on where you are flying and the heli, but most small electric ones work better at about 2-3 feet or more. Once you have done some hops, try to make the hops longer. Just a little bit at a time. Keep your correction inputs small, if it wanders forward then pull back a little on the right stick and then cancel the correction, otherwise it will keep moving back. When you are first starting out you'll suffer from "PIO" Pilot Induced Oscillations, where it wanders forward, you over correct and it shoots back, you over correct and it zooms forward, etc. If this is happening keep your corrections small and remember to anticipate taking them off. You need to have taken the correction off before it gets to where you want it to stop Flying heli's is hard, try these basic things first, feel free to PM me for more tips
  2. I've not been but ordered some wellies off them at about 3pm and they arrived the next day, can't beat that really.
  3. pin

    Fuel shortage

    I'm up north at the moment and yesterday I filled up with diesel in Gosforth and it cost me a fortune, 127.8/l !! When I was in the garage the woman behind the till printed something off the computer, knocked on the door of the office before serving me and said "There's only 1500 left in the diesel" Last night I was in kingston park tesco and driving past the petrol station there was only 2 rows of pumps in service by the looks and notices up everywhere. The queues were about 10 cars deep there.
  4. Get a pocketpc or windows mobile based PDA or phone and get tomtom for that. Either buy one with a built in GPS or buy a good external one (Holux GPSlim etc). You can then do "Navigate to contact" from your outlook contacts in the phone / PDA.
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    Warning!

    New exploit out, spreading via myspace / facebook / beebo.. Clever trick, people always pass on virus warnings (much like I am doing here) only this time the warning isn't a hoax its a clever trick to con you into compromising your computer. If you get a virus warning from someone beware. If after clicking it you end up looking at this :- don't click it It's not real, it's an image of a fake windows update box, clicking anywhere on it will prompt a nasty rootkit download. I think a lot of people will be seeing this over the next few days and weeks. If you want more detail have a look at the SANS ISC posting here
  6. Well done mate. I've been out a dozen times over the rape this year and I don't think I've shot what you've got there
  7. pin

    here's a toughy

    Go hire a bear and put that in the tree, compared to that she might just tolerate the pigeons?
  8. Now now, they've some tops teams. For whatever reason the only one I can think of is Canvey Island
  9. Lets all laugh at the mackems Happy days
  10. Just speculation but I think it would be a case of corner him in the ring, unleash a volley of fists to keep him pinned down in the corner followed by a "haymaker" to land squarely in the ring and nock him out with the shock of being on the receiving end of such a violent fist in the ring!
  11. Look. If you are on the receiving end of a relentless, aggressive and systematic pounding in the ring you have to have a strategy. You'll be bleeding and weeping, this needs to be attended to, once you have that under control you need to get yourself oiled up, vaseline applied to all your tender and exposed parts then *** back fighting. You need to identify a weakness, perhaps when the other fighter stoops low, ATTACK, throw violent fists with the aim of landing them in the ring, make him feel the PAIN, make him feel the shame of being soundly beaten off the ring! Go for it!
  12. I think the double entendres in this thread are disgraceful! If you've been on the receiving end of a load then feel free to give one back son! There's no shame in being beaten into a corner, just make sure you come back standing proud! If you get a good hoofing in the ring the only reasonable response is to lick your wounds and come back throwing fists! I could go on
  13. Seconded, great bloke and some shot! Some might say fluke but to hit three midi's quartering away at speed with open chokes with no9 shot, on the bounce, he knows something or two I've taken inspiration from him and used smaller shot at longer things and had results
  14. Kind of glad I've gayed out of it now :(
  15. On his game I think mungler could card a 150, 200 birds is a hell of a lot to keep your concentration over - more of a war of attrition than a clay shoot. It really is the being ******* minded about every single target that will get you a good score.
  16. Didn't Sean Bramley already card a 190?
  17. I am still gonna come down and take the ****, just can't be ***** shooting it
  18. I'm out, sadly. I aint shot clays in 3 months and literally just don't fancy it. I might well still come down for the crack but I won't be shooting it.
  19. You get your local RFD to handle it. Speak to him, make sure he'll do it and if so you'll need the RFD No that you are sending it to. They'll charge a fee for handling it and just send it via secure courier for you, the chap buying it picks it up from the other side. As simple as walking in and handing it over, you cross off the gun on your cert and the other RFD will write it on the guy who's buying it's cert. Just make sure you tell plod who you sold it to, personally I'd let them know the two RFD's No's and details involved in the transaction as well.
  20. I did look up the average wage for "the Wirral" but when I excluded footballers I wasn't so impressed
  21. I am paid well for what I do, and I say this only for the purpose of "having it said". I can work upwards of 80+ hours a week, normallyI work less than 50, but sometimes it's 60-65 hours. Take your working directive and shove it up your *** There isn't a successful city trader, IT person or otherwise who works less than 50 hours a week. How it is.
  22. Good on you, you provide and you enjoy - this country could do with more of you!
  23. Wirral, that's mersyside? How many cars can you pinch in that time?
  24. Oops LB's a mechanic, a rather good one at that. He specialises in the "easy" field of cambelt replacement. Pen pusher Over to you LB
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