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05-16-2012, 08:41 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Whats up Central / Western NC heli crew!
Welp, summer time in NC is HERE baby! Needless to say I'm excited, but writing this I am also deeply saddened. Seeing as it is summer and I'm in college (and hate warm weather) I will be as far away from the scorching eastern nc heat as possible and I'm going to miss the heck out of my NCSC crew.
Most of the summer I'm going to be in / around the Winston-Salem area, specifically God's country, aka, Davie County and also Foscoe, right up highway 105 from Boone. Long story short, I need to make some more heli friends I can fly with for the summer! I get to work my own hours so I'm pretty flexible as to when / where I can fly and wold love to meet up with some people around here. I know there is a nice field out at Brownies house in Mocksville, but I think that is mostly plankers, regardless I know the property owner personally and he is a very close family friend, good enough he would probably run the plunkers off if we really wanted to fly I also live on a TON of land, we have about 100 aces worth of nothing but flat plowed fields, right on the Yadkin River, as well as a private airstrip 1/4 mile long, few hundred feet wide. Any weekend if anybody would like to come out and fly with me just shoot me a PM or text message and id be more than happy to have you out here. Im even considering hosting a 'fun-fly' / cookout / night flying / beer drinking / bonfire / campout ordeal at some point this summer. I easily have the room and means to do it. It will not be sponsored / sanctioned, I guess its recommended you have AMA but if not, I really don't care, just don't pin it on me if anything happens. :thumb up: I know quite a few people that id love to have out, Tom and the boys, Paul, Ryan, Lincoln, David, the whole NCSC and Raleigh crew and anybody else that would like to come. We will just have to find a solid date that accommodates as many of us as possible. Good idea'r? look forward to hearing from some people. Btw, getting me a 500, no more e-razor thank GOD!
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05-16-2012, 09:26 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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I am all for it. Sounds like a great time.
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05-16-2012, 09:35 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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I live in Foscoe, my name is Cory. I am a newbie and hope to get my Beam e4 in the air this summer. If you are around and want to talk, fly helis, let me know and I will send you my number, much love and happy flying
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05-16-2012, 09:41 PM | #4 (permalink) |
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Sure does! More room here than we could ever need. Shoot, anybody too chicken to sleep outside with the yotes an critters can sleep in the cabin by the river.
I have a 3000w Honda generator, anybody that needs to charge up lipos can run up my electricity bill, use the genny, or bring your own. Whatever works. We got a little bit, well, alotta bit of planning to do. First and foremost, the heck are we gonna cook? we got some options, boston butts, buy a pig and cook it, chicken stew, I got some deer, etc. Tom, I say we need to round up the troops and try and sort out the details, I'm excited about this. BTW, gotta do this before the corn gets too tall in the bottoms unless we want to just do it on the airstrip, its good and long just not very wide. About like NCSC.
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Im a newb too! Been in the hobby since this past January. I actually started out with an (adue, awful) e-razor 450, supposedly a Bean E4 clone, I actually just gave it away tonight because I have me a new 500 on the way and got my mcpx to beat up. How long have you been flying? Ill do whatever I can to help you get started once I get up there. I got work for the next week, week and a half, after that I will be living up there for a few weeks till I run out of money We gotta get up and fly!
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05-16-2012, 10:27 PM | #6 (permalink) |
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Excellent! Im in the same area and would love to check out the airstrip; is that the one north of 40 along the river?
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Hmmm, well, there are a couple. Bert Bonson has an airstrip about 3 mi from ours along 801, they have a glider club out there. Ours is N of 40 and pretty close to the river, maybe a quarter mile or so away so I'm pretttyyy sure that is the one your talking about. Do you know if a pilot passed away at the strip your thinking of a few years back in a T6 texan? Here are a few screenshots of my 'hood'
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05-16-2012, 11:03 PM | #8 (permalink) |
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hell I'm close enough, you guys get something planned if I can make it i'll b there
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05-16-2012, 11:06 PM | #9 (permalink) |
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Would love to have you out! Once its all planned and official I will make a more formal thread in the events forum.
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05-17-2012, 05:15 AM | #10 (permalink) |
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Hey I fly at the Winstonsalem park every weekend we got about 5 Heli Pilots out here live to have you to fly with us hobby park is where we fly at
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05-17-2012, 07:27 AM | #11 (permalink) | |
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Where around here would have a 6s lipo for a 500? I know hungates went out of biz, I don't really know of any other hobby shops around here, I'm sure somebody on here does.
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05-17-2012, 07:41 AM | #12 (permalink) |
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I mail order all my batteries from hobbypartz.com. But you have king Rc in king nc just north of Winstonsalem, Anderson Rc in thomasville nc that is the closest to you and the cheapest around, and Kc hobby in archdale or highpoint that's it around here king has probley what you want but they are high as hell up there Anderson Rc is really the best place
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05-17-2012, 07:59 AM | #13 (permalink) |
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I live at the end of Church road, past Holloway Mountain Rd. I have flown in those soccer fields you are talking about, great place, no one has ever bothered me and another friend of mine that uses them. It is also a dream of mine to send a heli out over a huge valley from atop the mountain, there are a lot of secret little pastures up here perfect for that if the wind will just die down. Never seen a 500 in person can't wait to check it out.
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05-17-2012, 12:56 PM | #14 (permalink) |
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05-17-2012, 03:18 PM | #15 (permalink) |
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A very nice thread. A lot of people don't realize how many pilots live around them.
This is an awesome idea.
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05-17-2012, 03:23 PM | #16 (permalink) |
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We tring to get new Heli pilots out yo fly with us
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Greenville, NC when I am in school, Davie County (Winston-Salem area, most people haven't heard of DC) and also Foscoe, NC, right up hwy 105 from Boone, NC. I have a vacation house up there and try to spend as much time as I can there when I don't have to work back home (winston). You? Quote:
That is what Jim said! I would love too! If I'm not back in Greenville this weekend I will come out to hobby park if anybody is going to be there. We need to all get organized!
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05-17-2012, 10:14 PM | #18 (permalink) |
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Well more than likely kIng Rc will have what you need in stock Anderson might and I live in king but drive to Winston Salem to fly and hobby park has a all electric funfly sat but I got yard work to do and work on a Heli I crashed last weekend I should be out next week though I drive a truck for a living so Saturdays is the only day I have to fly
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05-19-2012, 12:11 AM | #19 (permalink) |
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lets do it
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05-24-2012, 09:11 PM | #20 (permalink) |
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bump, is there anybody up in the high country of north carolina that has some experience with larger heli's that would mind giving my 500 a final look over before the maiden? I just don't want to put it up and have it explode on me. Willjames, I know you are up there somewhere. Ill be around the Boone / Foscoe area
Also, if you got an extra female EC3 connector you aren't using ill pay you for it!
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