Earlgrey

Today the 18/1/07 is almost a year to the day that because of a rapid deterioration of my health I was confined to the house, that’s not to say that previously I was active, but at least I could potter around in my shed, making Tudor Dolls Houses, which had been my main hobby for 12 years.

Then I found myself collapsing without any warnings at all, this was all because of a stroke that I had in 2005, which left me with zero energy and serious heart and kidney disease, luckily I got a slight interest in Helicopters when my son asked me to repair a RC aeroplane that he had, I casually mentioned to him that a RC helicopter would be better as unlike a helicopter a RC airplane has to be all or nothing, whereas with a RC helicopter you can at least keep it within a confined area!

My son, then without me knowing anything about it until the last minute bought me a Syma 2 channel Helicopter from China, I was really looking forward to it as sitting around doing nothing has never been a part of my life, when I finally got it as usual excitement kicked in and within 5 minutes of receiving it, I had lost it it to the sky gods, never to be seen again.

Well to say I was devastated was an understatement as this was a present for my wedding anniversary from my son, I lost sleep over it and it did my health no good at all.

To my surprise my son bought me a second one but this time I killed the excitement before it had a chance to kill my second Helicopter, and I learnt to use it in minutes (no excitement allowed) and to this day I still have it and will never part with it.

My son then got an interest in RC helicopters, and bought a 2nd hand Walkera 4, from E-Bay, the only problem was he didn’t know what model it was and I was none the wiser, he tried it but felt intimidated by it so he gave it to me. I then posted a picture of it on another forum with a simple question “What is the make of this helicopter”, and all I got back was a flood of written abuse, but not one of them had told me what it was, I felt hurt, cheated and above all determined never to go back to that forum, I then came across Heliguy.com and before joining the forums, I sent Joel a picture of the Walkera 4 in the vague hope that he would reply and tell me what it was, in my sheer frustration to get an answer I had forgotten to resize the picture suitable for email so poor Joel got a 2.8mb picture of what had by now became known as “Helicopter X”.

Joel replied within a minute, and told me all about it, and put my mind at rest, so I joined the forums with one aim, to repay Joel and to make sure that no one else goes through what I went through - the rest is history.

As for the Walkera 4 it turned out that the E-Bayer who sold it, had crashed it and damaged a servo, which I quickly replaced with a Tower pro 90 and its been fine ever since.

Thanks for reading.

Joe