The World of RC Helicopter

Being a professional helicopter flyer, I often  write reviews for remove control helicopters, and this includes electric helicopters.  Here I will make sure to emphasize the potential pitfalls and I test each one by one carefully.  As the electric ones are often the ones with the most agility, which is very important to many consumers, but you can probably imagine that these helicopters are also the ones that can be dangerous if you try to fly them in the rain or near power lines.  I am not like some of the other reviewers that just writes an endorsement for any old remote control electric helicopters just because they are getting paid to do so.  In fact, sometimes, I will actually turn down the opportunity to promote remote control electric helicopters of a certain brand because I deem them dangerous for the typical consumers, and I worry that people will read my review, go out and purchase a specific brand of remote control electric helicopters and end up getting really injured.    So I do not want to give a misleading reviews to anybody, but in the other hand, I just want to give my little knowledges for them.

It is true about my decision not to give the reviews only for money, because one occasion of this happening with a colleague really hit home with me, and I’d like to eleborate on it a bit. This friend wrote a gleaming review for remote control electric helicopters, and I had warned him that the brand he was writing about was not always the most reliable, and sometimes they used cheaper materials to cut corners.  Well, he was too entranced by the amount of money offered for this short review, so he wrote one that was just brilliant, and he posted it online and in print for everyone to see.  Lo and behold, sales in that helicopter skyrocketed, and people for the most part were happy with them after the first few weeks of purchase.  Then bad things began to happen.  People reported the remote control electric helicopters shorting out and a few peoples’ helicopters even caught fire because of faulty wiring. These incidents caused some people get injured. One person had to go to the hospital because they tried to put the fire out in their remote control electric helicopter and they couldn’t put it out fast enough.  And a small explosion was enough for one consumer to lose a finger.  As you can imagine, the reviewer just felt horrible about giving this company such a great review for their remote control electric helicopters when he had never even checked them out.  The saddest thing was that this reviewer then left the helicopter business because he felt so shamed about leaving an un-researched review and hurting his trusting readers.  I tried to get him to come back to the helicopter company after he was away for a few years, because I knew that flying helicopters was his passion, and I just felt so bad that he had deserted it. These bad experiences made him go away from the world of rc helicopter business and never regained his great name or reputation as the rc helicopter reviewer anymore.

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I recently got a job located in Gaithersburg, MD, and with that comes a pretty sizeable move.  I need to basically move across the country, and when I realized that this job offer was finalized, I almost had a panic attack, because I didn’t know how I would best transport my collection of remote control helicopters. What ended up happening was a great story that I love to tell other helicopter enthusiasts or even other potential helicopter enthusiasts.  Anyway, I called a few of my friends in the area, who are also remote control helicopter enthusiasts.  Although none of them lived anywhere near Gaithersburg, MD, they were all ready and willing to help me in my move.  They showed up a week in advance and helped me pack up my collection of about 7549 remote control helicopters, which ended up being a painstaking amount of wrapping, checking, and rewrapping of each helicopter and then placing them into a box and making sure that they won’t bump against each other or break during transport.  I had to make sure that when I arrived in Gaithersburg, MD that my helicopters would still be intact, because I had a competition in the near future, and I didn’t want to lose even one of the helicopters in my large collection.

Luckily, my friends were extremely careful and considerate and made sure that they packaged each one carefully and when I finally arrived in Gaitherburg, by car, they were there to help with unloading as well.  I just couldn’t believe that they took the time and the money for me.  I never realized how helpful other helicopter enthusiasts could be, and I’ll never forget how wonderful they were during my move to my new job in Gaithersburg.

I am really now excited about my new job, and now that I’ve begun I am really thinking that this is the job for me, and someday when I find that someone else has to make a large move and they are worried about what they’ll do about packing up their own remote control helicopter collection, I will be right there to help them out.  I am so happy that the helicopter enthusiasts in my community have such a “pay it forward” attitude, and I know that someday if I ever need them again, they’ll still be there for me.  This is also something to consider when you purchase a remote control helicopter—are the people in the area going to be available to fly it with you?  Because it’s often the most rewarding experience to teach someone else how to really master the flight of a helicopter, and without someone else there, you don’t get the same enjoyment out of flying. Of course, if you’re the kind of person that really likes solitude, then maybe you would actually prefer to purchase you remote control helicopter in an area where there is a dearth of other helicopter enthusiasts, but these people are rare in the helicopter community.  Anyway, I am so happy that I can meet those helpful and kind helicopters enthusiasts friends.

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