Then you are going to have to fly it, and of course you want to fire it. Lets see, YOU want to take a R/C heli and arm it with a paintball gun. 'God, can you say anal?'-'The way you people present yourselves is really like some kind of elitist dicks.' Now, I know that it would be hard to control without seeing the horizon.Couldn't you possibly instal an altimiter and ground level indicator though? How different would it be from controling a 1:1 helicopter on instruments? I hope you people are better at piloting than you are at helping people!!!! And the part about me being a spoiled teenager? I had money growing up but I assure you every bit of money being spent on this project I've earned myself (and I'm not a teenager, I'm 21). The way you people present yourselves is really like some kind of elitist dicks. But so what? Everyone gets started into a hobby somehow. To answer your question about whether or not I have experience flying helicopters, no, I do not. I wasn't planning on doing anything malicious with it at all (which I guess you all assumed I was.). God, can you say anal? What the hell did you people think I was going to do? Open fire on crowds from my living room? I thought this would be a totally cool and unique (guess not!) build project. Wow, looks like I was already beat to the punch on this one. The video equipment alone would probably cost that much for the kind of (reliable) range you're talking about. It's just a really, really bad idea.Īt any rate, you probably won't get too far on $5000 CAD if you do attempt this little scheme of yours. But forget about the remotely piloted from 2 miles away thing. 30 size or bigger could lift a paintball gun and C02 cannister without any problems probably. If all you want to do is fire a paintball gun from an RC helicopter, it's easily done. They require constant user input to stay on a given path, which requires the operator to be able to see what the helicopter is physically doing and where it's physically going, to be able to give proper orientational input. Helicopters don't magically hover by them selves. If you can't see your helicopter, it's a good chance you're going to crash.

If you happen to lose track of the horizon for even a quick moment on your little screen, you could lose complete orientation and the helicopter could be going down when you think it's going up. Pretending for a moment that you DID do this, you would have no horizon level meters or altitude meters. To properly fly a helicopter you need to be able to see what it's physically doing, which you can't do if you're doing it via video. The fact you're even asking this is obvious that you've never piloted an RC helicopter before. Also, most RC transmitters don't work over 1 mile as far as I understand it.

Getting a video transmitter with a 2 mile OOS (out of sight) range would require some serious transmitting and receiving equipment. Piloting an RC helicopter via video would probably be next to impossible.

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