flew an R22 today for the first time, hover and pedal turns were easy!

"Beav" wrote in message
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So your club wouldn't let someone who's confined to a wheelchair fly?

Doesn't seem very fair to me and I suspect it's not actually legal either.

That's a fair point I guess. I'm sure they'd be more than welcome at any
club, so by extension the heli-chair might well be too. Though I can
imagine a lot of able-bodied flyers being cautious of putting themselves in
an unnecessarily vulnerable position.

Si

"Simon Robbins" wrote in message
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"Beav" wrote in message
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So your club wouldn't let someone who's confined to a wheelchair fly?

Doesn't seem very fair to me and I suspect it's not actually legal
either.

That's a fair point I guess. I'm sure they'd be more than welcome at any
club, so by extension the heli-chair might well be too. Though I can
imagine a lot of able-bodied flyers being cautious of putting themselves
in
an unnecessarily vulnerable position.

Si


One of the senior members of our local RC club flies his airplanes from a
seated position. He's of an age now that he has a hard time standing still
for even the 10 to 15 minute duration that his model will fly. One of the
other members assists him with getting the model started and safely to the
runway and he takes it from there. He's still an able pilot even if it's
not quite as precise as he was in his younger days.

FWIW!
Fly Safe,
Steve R.

"Simon Robbins" wrote in message
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"Beav" wrote in message
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So your club wouldn't let someone who's confined to a wheelchair fly?

Doesn't seem very fair to me and I suspect it's not actually legal
either.

That's a fair point I guess. I'm sure they'd be more than welcome at any
club, so by extension the heli-chair might well be too. Though I can
imagine a lot of able-bodied flyers being cautious of putting themselves
in
an unnecessarily vulnerable position.

I taught my pal (another Steve as it happens) to fly his RC heli, and he's
in a wheelchair. He was no more dangerous than any other guy I've taught
over the last thouand years (I'm getting on now Steve:-)

No-one even notices his chair anymore, so I suppose a heli-chair set-up
would soon be seen as "nothing special" from a rules or fear POV. I've
always fancied building something like the chair myself, but I've not got a
round tuit I can use


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