th3tick
03-27-2008, 09:08 AM
Hi John - speaking of total dollars in the air, I have been toying with the idea of getting a similar setup to yours, just off the top of my head I come up with:
**Neu 1912/1Y/H - 300.00
**L600/Flybarless (A Main Hobbies) 1330.00
**Radix 600 main blades 85.99
**JR 8717's 300.00 (for 3)
**GY611/9256 350.00
**AR7000 70.00
**Jazz 80-6-18 300.00
**Flightpower 5350 10S (three @ 540.00) 1620.00
**Rx batteries and BEC 100.00
**Misc support items, crash kit, spares, etc 500.00
4836.00 total
Close. I only flew one pack at a time ;), bought few spares up-front (excepting rotors, fortunately, where the spare will now be handy), so I only had like $3400 hanging up there when it went BOOM! Getting out for the price of a kit doesn't seem so bad. Well, not as bad...
Sidenote; some piro-rate, huh?
Quite! What was scary about it was the WHOOSH-WHOOSH as it came around each time. A spinning blender under a spinning blender. Wish I'd had the skill to control that and keep it level. The un-level ground underneath probably would have defeated that, however.
John
**Neu 1912/1Y/H - 300.00
**L600/Flybarless (A Main Hobbies) 1330.00
**Radix 600 main blades 85.99
**JR 8717's 300.00 (for 3)
**GY611/9256 350.00
**AR7000 70.00
**Jazz 80-6-18 300.00
**Flightpower 5350 10S (three @ 540.00) 1620.00
**Rx batteries and BEC 100.00
**Misc support items, crash kit, spares, etc 500.00
4836.00 total
Close. I only flew one pack at a time ;), bought few spares up-front (excepting rotors, fortunately, where the spare will now be handy), so I only had like $3400 hanging up there when it went BOOM! Getting out for the price of a kit doesn't seem so bad. Well, not as bad...
Sidenote; some piro-rate, huh?
Quite! What was scary about it was the WHOOSH-WHOOSH as it came around each time. A spinning blender under a spinning blender. Wish I'd had the skill to control that and keep it level. The un-level ground underneath probably would have defeated that, however.
John