The Mode Survey - what do you fly?

[Jeff Weston]

mode 2..started when i was 16,,found girls gave it up..for a long time...restarted 2years ago,fly at parkway mfc in sale cheshire,,,,,,part self taught,,,,a lot of simultor time,,,,,,then had tuition from club member..chairman,,,,always mode 2......

[Alan Hall]

I fly Mode two and have done since starting

 

I live in the East (ish) Lincolnshire

 

I learnt all over the country - Ex RAF

 

Taught myself to fly

[ken w.]

  1      mode 1

 

  2      e. yorkshire

 

 3      e. yorkshire

 

 4     initially instructor then self taught aerobatics

[Bill Hughes 3]

Mode 2

I live in Staffordshire and fly with Newport & District MAC.

Learned to fly in Bucks with Milton Keynes Bukkaneers Club

 

[GeeW]

1 Mode 2

2 Berkshire

3 Berkshire

4 Self taught.

[Rik Rogers]

Mode 4? - that's throttle/aileron on left and elevator/rudder on right, used Futaba for years, only ever electric models.

Self taught.

Warwickshire

[Phil Olson - Model Technics]

Mode 2

 

Essex  

taught by instructor ( although I chose Mode2 anyway)

[Sorry]

Mode 1   

West Midlands

West Midlands

Self teaching

[Derek Trusler]

1. Mode 1

2. Melbourne, Australia and Penang, Malaysia equally

3. Melbourne

4. Instructor

[Andy Green]

Mode 2

West Midlands

Southcoast

Self Taught

 

Andy

[Martin Piper]

I fly mode 1

live in kent

instructor taught

I also have to fly mode 2 if helping a few club members on that mode.

[Derek Stevenson]

Mode 2

Live in Northern Ireland

Learn to fly in Northern Ireland

Taught by instructor

[daniel mearns]

hi i fly mode 2 which is what my instructor taught me at the time, im in north lanarkshire scotland

[Robin Patterson]

I fly Mode 1

Learnt to fly in the West Midlands (courtesy of Hereford MAC), and now fly with the Northampton MAC where I am one of only a very small handful of Mode1, the rest flying Mode2  

[Roger Allison-Jones]

1. Mode 2 (Flew full size aircraft before models).

 

2. Sydney, Australia.

3. Wirral, Cheshire, UK.

4. Self-taught.

[Richard Neve]

Hi, interesting survey.

Mode 2

Essex

Surrey

Instructor

[Jazzy-cjb]

Mode 2

I fly heli and the odd plank

Essex based

Instructor taught

I also teach on mode 2

[Braddock, VC]

I fly on mode 2 but learned on mode 1 and single channel.

I fly in east kent normally, but not always above ground level

I learned in south wales, self taught then in kent when I went over to power and had help from an instructor.

[Anthony Quinn]

I fly mode 2

I fly in the west midlands

I learnt to fly in the west midlands

I was taught by an instructor who flew on mode 1 (thanks graham)  couldn't get on with mode 1. Prefered mode 2. Much to Grahams anoyance.

[Martin_H]

Fly Mode 2, which isn't popular in Oz, seems most people I fly with are Mode 1, asking about Mode 2 in shops here draws sometimes blank responses. 

 

Mode 2 to me is natural, having been a maintenance engineer on military helicopters and doing my fair share of stick time when flying. Also taught me to use throttle/collective for altitude control and fore/aft pitch/elevator for speed control. Makes more sense to me (read   Wolfgang Langewiesche's Stick and Rudder).

[Steve Ralph]

1: Mode 1 (I converted from10 ch Reeds)

2: North West Tasmania

3: As above.

4: Flew Single Ch, Multi reeds and Galloping Ghost before real Propo and mostly self taught with help from a friend.

 

[busabill]

I  fly mode2, I learned to fly (and still do) in the South and was taught by various members of the Basingstoke Model Aeroplane Club (bmac)

Cheers, Bill

[Gary Eyre]

Gary Eyre, Quairading West Australia

 

I fly mode 1

 

At Quairading and Perth, West Australia

 

South/west Australia

 

Mainly self taught

[Bill Tillick]

1. Mode 1 (2.4GHz mostly)

2. Palmerston North, New Zealand

3. Palmerston North, New Zealand

4. Club instructor

Edited By Bill Tillick on 13/01/2010 05:16:20

[Rob T]

Mode 2

Hampshire

Kent

Self taught