| I was amazed at the hostility displayed from some "plankers" when they | learned that I had purchased a helicopter. Questions like, "What do you want | that for?" were asked from time to time.
That goes both ways. In fact, it goes every possible way in this hobby.
Though I'd not consider `What do you want that for?" to be hostility
-- either curiosity or friendly ribbing instead -- though I suspect you had something else in mind.
| For me, one of the attractions to helis was not having a need for a mown and | peticured flying field. If I wanted, I could pull it out of the car or van | and fly it in many more, unofficial, locations than I could an R/C airplane.
You can have that with planks too -- just get something without a landing gear.
| Those rules, while sound, were just too restrictive.
That statement speaks well of you.
| Fortunately for me, these days I do all of my heli flying via a heli | simulator program running on the computer. No maintenance, no expense and no | big deal if I lose it. My fellow plankers at the field will never know that | I enjoy flying helis, now and then.
But do they know that you've crashed over 600 of them, 100 of them just last week? :)