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And my personal corollary: R/C cars when I was a kid. I learned so many useful things from building, driving, breaking, and fixing them! DC electronics, motors
by function_seven 4y ago
And my personal corollary: R/C cars when I was a kid. I learned so many useful things from building, driving, breaking, and fixing them!
DC electronics, motors, suspension tuning and theory, PWM, basic mechanical “instincts”, soldering, how transmissions work (some models had even fluid-filled torque converters on them) differential gearing (and some had limited slip!) and even regenerative braking.
Years later I’d constantly be surprised how all of these things worked almost the same way in real cars.
- CrazyCatDog 4y agoHa! I started on flight sim, made it to rc planes, and the first day of flight instruction, I told the instructor and he said: “if you can fly rc, you can fly full scale.” All I had to master was emergency procedures and some theory on the throttle vs pitch and I was off to the skies!
- doubled112 4y agoI’d imagine the stakes are a little higher when you're on the plane looking down than when you're on the ground looking up? The rest makes sense. Controls are in different places, everything is bigger, but the basics are the same. Is the bigger plane easier in the sense it is less twitchy? I’ve tried a couple of RC helicopters and the larger one was much easier to handle.
- dylan604 4y agoYeah, flying a plane is "easy". It's the taking off and landing that gets tricky. /s