Hi everyone,

Am tcpip from New Bombay. I have exactly one RC flying craft, a helicopter, which belongs to my seven-year-old son, and I hope he will be enthused enough for us to go get some more. We have worked our way through about 4-5 indoor RC helo models -- he has been flying since he was about two-and-a-half. He used to have minute-long flights at age three, indoors. The current RC helo we are struggling with is our second outdoor model. The first was a quad-copter bought from a shop in Ariana Mall in Worli, which has been damaged by crashing on hard paved parking lots. Six-year-olds have a way of doing these things.

I am old and doddering, though a babe in RC flying. (Anyone remembers drooling over the altitude record flight of the Bong Boomer?) I used to study at St Xaviers Calcutta during my plus-two, and was living in a hostel there. I used to walk around all over that part of Calcutta when good boys of my class were attending lectures. There was a shop in Free School Street which used to sell old issues of foreign magazines, and I used to buy and pore over model airplane magazines bought there. The Bong Boomer cover story was in one such issue. I also used to go stand in the India's Hobby Centre in Russell Street and stare at everything. They actually used to answer letters written by prospective customers -- I have written postcards to them, and they have sent me typed inland letters in reply, with clear technical replies to my questions. Amazing place! The only thing I bought was a rubber-powered model, the Chaser. Never had money for any other kind of powered flight.

For those of you who know New Bombay, I have found an empty field just a few hundred metres off Palm Beach Marg, next to the lake in Nerul. This field is walking distance from Seawoods Railway Station. Slightly uneven ground, but good grass cover. ROG for fixed-wing is unlikely to work well, but helo ROG and landings of most kinds should be doable.

Hope to hang around more... 

PS: In case you want to know what I am up to in my free time, please check the following:
http://tcpip.dhandanought.org/asawari/
http://tcpip.dhandanought.org/asawari2/
http://www.hifivision.com/diy/47571-darbari-new-speaker-project.html
http://tcpip.dhandanought.org/eos5dmarkiiireview

Welcome to the forum. You will get all the knowledge required for this hobby here on this forum, and I'm sure we can learn a few things from yourself.
regards Ashim.

P.s turn the auto correct off.

We fly in kharghar mostly saturday/sunday. If you wanna join flying, please pm me with your number.

Hi ,

I have bought a j3cub , if you don't mind,  am ready to join you at kharghar tomorrow.

Thanks
Arif

Thanks for the friendly greeting, but I couldn't understand this auto correct remark. Please help?

This is fantastic. Will contact you once my helo and its pilot are back in airworthy shape.

I keep seeing the word helo instead of heli so assumed that auto correct was to blame.

nice to see some one who is into sounds  ,i am a bit  audiophile,i really like the fact that you do diy in sounds like we do in rc and i will surely go through your Darbari build when get time , thankyou for introducing hifivision and welcome to rc india  .

Welcome to the forum !
I use to fly for a year in the field you mentioned near Seawood station
Now Bangalore .
You'll find many fliers flying in Kharghar .

I got programmed to use "helo" many years before I bought my first RC helicopter because of exposure to fauji cousins and friends. They seem to keep saying "helo" (or "halo") for choppers.

Now I get it, the Russian made mi-26 helicopter, code name "Halo".

 
Right on the spot... You nailed it !

Those chaps seem to use the word "helo" for any and every model of helicopter. So, I don't know...

Does this flying field have a paved stretch for ROG take-offs?