Some helicopters I fly.

[60buick]

I can't claim ownership but I do get to fly them several times every week.

[mrmugen]

I take it thats what you do for a living? Awesome! Are they as hard to fly as our little counterparts.....like the blade cp?

[60buick]

I'm not being paid yet. I'm still training and building time. I should be on the payroll before to long.

The hardest thing with the model is orientation. If all you want to do is forward flight and hover it is easier than the real thing. But if 3D is what you are going for the real thing is easier. The real thing never has to look at you making the controls reversed. The scale model can not get into thing such as retreating blade stall, settling with power, and turbulence so the real thing is much harder in that respect. the model is easier because you do not have to fly it in from of an FAA examiner. You do not have to take FAA test and spend 11 weeks in ground school. the real thing is easier because the helicopter never gets farther away changing your depth perception. The model is easier because you don't have to learn the weather and how to comunicate on the radio and navigate. The model is harder in the respect that they are twitchy and a small wind is the same as a big gust for the real thing. you can't kill yourself with a model so there is less pressure on you while flying. They are both a completely different skill that is difficult to learn. Its funny, the guys that trained me can fly the real thing but cannot fly a model and likewise when I started I could fly a model but not the real thing.