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From: dorayme on 26 Feb 2010 00:08 In article <nospam.m-m-CB6587.23090025022010(a)cpe-76-190-186-198.neo.res.rr.c om>, M-M <nospam.m-m(a)ny.more> wrote: > In article <doraymeRidThis-6CC089.14004926022010(a)news.albasani.net>, > dorayme <doraymeRidThis(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > > > > > I use a radio control airplane flight simulator that is Win only and > > > > > cannot run in VMWare but does fine in BootCamp. > > > > > > > > I have found that my radio controlled helicopters, small indoor > > > > ones, run fine no matter what memory I have on my computers. > > > > > > > > > Cool! How about the float planes and giant scale aerobatic biplanes? > > > > Ah look... these are way out of scale for indoor activities! One > > can sit at a nice Mac laptop or an even just keyboard and screen > > powered by a quiet under-desk Mac tower and, in a moment of > > boredom or just for quick relief, still fly the little > > helicopters. They *fit*, you have to understand... > > > I can easily fly the airplanes but I could never get the knack with the > helis. Yes, they are tricky customers, especially the indoor jobs. Reason why latter are harder than outdoor ones is generally they are smaller and, like small kites, tolerances are tighter, and combined with cheap Chinese production, you need to do a few things and adapt. Like balancing a new copter, feeling it in the hand, how smooth with the motor running... and seeing where there may be more weight one side or the other, blade or body etc ... The twin counter rotating blade ones are easier because they (ideally at any rate) *just give lift*. The tail mounted smaller single blade controls forward and backwards by lifting the tail when rotating with thrust down and lowering the tail when rotating the other way (all controllable). Sideways is a matter of one of the two big counter rotating blades going faster than the other thus making a summed force to pressure the body to rotate in the opposite direction. I know this because I saw with my own eyes the ghost of Newton sitting there watching and chuckling away. Creepy at first, but I have gotten used to it. It is easier to fly because you usually get a potentiometer control to set so that the two counter rotating blades match in speed (tail prop not on at all yet so less to worry about just to keep the coptor up) -- dorayme
From: Warren Oates on 26 Feb 2010 07:53 In article <doraymeRidThis-0C6BB7.11461326022010(a)news.albasani.net>, dorayme <doraymeRidThis(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > I have found that my radio controlled helicopters, small indoor > ones, run fine no matter what memory I have on my computers. I have strange terry-gilliam-ish images of you and your house in my head. -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer
From: Warren Oates on 26 Feb 2010 07:58 In article <doraymeRidThis-790C2F.14202526022010(a)news.albasani.net>, dorayme <doraymeRidThis(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > Good lord, I would love to see a decent video of this instead of > the stuttering mess I am seeing (even after downloading and > playing). Video plays fine here. It's low-res, and in German, but aside from that, it plays fine. -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer
From: dorayme on 26 Feb 2010 09:57
In article <4b87c56d$0$31989$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, Warren Oates <warren.oates(a)gmail.com> wrote: > In article <doraymeRidThis-790C2F.14202526022010(a)news.albasani.net>, > dorayme <doraymeRidThis(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > > Good lord, I would love to see a decent video of this instead of > > the stuttering mess I am seeing (even after downloading and > > playing). > > Video plays fine here. It's low-res, and in German, but aside from that, > it plays fine. Yes, so I saw on my Macbook (which is still a toy for me and I open it only now and again - I did use it seriously once the other day: on a photographic job. Neat to be able to show clients, in the field, immediate results on a screen bigger than a digital camera!) -- dorayme |