Here's why an increasing number of aeromodellers in the city are giving vent to their fantasy...
Who says a childhood dream can't come to life when you're older? Just ask a group of folks who gather at the Race Course each weekend, who are testimony to that. For come Saturday and Sunday mornings, you'll find people of all ages chasing the early blue skies with their pet hobby — flying! Tiny model aircraft, we mean. This is aeromodelling — a hobby about building and flying model aircrafts, that's catching on in the city, of late...
The idea is to get the craft into the air and control it as you try manoeuvres and formations, and have a blast with other fellow flyers. Says Darius Engineer, of Dhobitalao, who has been chasing his hobby since childhood, "Flying is not a cakewalk; but it's easy to learn the basics fast. The range of a remote-controlled aircraft is 1.6 km (by the line of sight), but when it's that high you may not see the craft, so 300 feet is ideal." Any chance of mid-air collisions? "Yes, that's a possibility, so there are usually not more than four or five models in the air at a time. Each flight lasts 7-10 minutes, after which one gets mentally fatigued. Then you simply take a break and start again," he says.
Another flyer Jim Desai, who comes here all the way from Borivali, says aeromodelling has more takers now than ever before. "Flying is one of the most innate desires; everyone wants to try it. While most people can't fly a real plane, the feeling of operating a model one via remote control is equally thrilling and, in fact, more difficult. In the former, you can gauge a situation from the cockpit and decide what to do, but when aeromodelling from the ground level, you have to estimate what might happen," he says.
12/04/16 Ishmat Tahseen/Times of India
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Who says a childhood dream can't come to life when you're older? Just ask a group of folks who gather at the Race Course each weekend, who are testimony to that. For come Saturday and Sunday mornings, you'll find people of all ages chasing the early blue skies with their pet hobby — flying! Tiny model aircraft, we mean. This is aeromodelling — a hobby about building and flying model aircrafts, that's catching on in the city, of late...
The idea is to get the craft into the air and control it as you try manoeuvres and formations, and have a blast with other fellow flyers. Says Darius Engineer, of Dhobitalao, who has been chasing his hobby since childhood, "Flying is not a cakewalk; but it's easy to learn the basics fast. The range of a remote-controlled aircraft is 1.6 km (by the line of sight), but when it's that high you may not see the craft, so 300 feet is ideal." Any chance of mid-air collisions? "Yes, that's a possibility, so there are usually not more than four or five models in the air at a time. Each flight lasts 7-10 minutes, after which one gets mentally fatigued. Then you simply take a break and start again," he says.
Another flyer Jim Desai, who comes here all the way from Borivali, says aeromodelling has more takers now than ever before. "Flying is one of the most innate desires; everyone wants to try it. While most people can't fly a real plane, the feeling of operating a model one via remote control is equally thrilling and, in fact, more difficult. In the former, you can gauge a situation from the cockpit and decide what to do, but when aeromodelling from the ground level, you have to estimate what might happen," he says.
12/04/16 Ishmat Tahseen/Times of India
