The Mode Survey - what do you fly?

[malcolm mackendrick]

malcolm mackendrick

 

I fly Mode 2

 

self taught with a  heli I won in the MHW magazine 1991. I had help setting up from members of Weymouth club

 

  Fix wing training was by grab & snatch instruction at Phoenix MFC in Dorset 

[Warranty Chap]

Hi, I fly Mode 1

I do this because its the club custom

Yorkshire

Self taught

 

[airman]

  Hi

Mode 1

kent

Kent

Instructor

[Jon Laughton]

I fly mode 2.

 

Started with mode 1 as that was recommended by a model shop where I live in the NW of England (near Manchester) who sold me a mode 1 Futaba radio set.....

 

I learned from a professional instructor who flies mode 1 and he almost instantly recognised that my natural style was mode 2 so I swapped.....been happy ever since

[Paul E]

1.Mode 2

2. Lincolnshire

3. Lincolnshire

4. Self taught

[ERIC CLAPHAM]

      1. Learnt on cuddle-box ( Controlaire/Kraft ) but now fly Mode 2 .                                                 2. Oz N.T.                                                                                                                                                   3. Oz S.A.                                                                                                                                                   4. Self taught - not recommended !

[iflylilplanes]

1. Mode 1

 

2. Sydney Australia (I think I'm in the south)

 

3. Sydney Australia

 

4. Taught by club instructor informaly 1972

[BWC]

Mode 2

Lincoln

SW England

Full size Pilot -Carries across to R/C

 

[Declan Barry]

1. Mode 2

2. Newcastle, Northern Ireland

3. Ard Penninsula

4. Taught by instructor in Club (NDMAC)

Edited By Declan Barry on 13/01/2010 09:25:18

[Vivian Burgess]

               vivian burgess,         I fly mode 2.

                                                   I live in the south.

                                                   And i am self taught.

 

                                            

[Geoff Bignold]

 

1. Mode 2. 

2. South East .

3. South East .

4. Instructor.

 

At our club we teach Mode 2 and have training models set up in this mode. More than 90% of our members fly exclusively Mode 2.

[Christopher Wright]

1 Mode 2

2 N Yorks

3 Thirsk

4 Club instructor taught

Chris wright

[Brian Cooper 1]

1. Mode 2

2. Southern Spain.

3. Bracknell, Berks.

4. Self taught.

[Flying Officer Barnes]

1 Mode 2

2 Mansfield

3 Barkston

4 Club instructor taught

[Guest]

1  mode 1  - prevailing mode at the local flying field then.

 

2  hampshire

 

3  hampshire

 

4  self taught

[Pete Robinson]

1 Mode 1

2 Stoke on Trent

3 N. Staffordshire

4 Mostly self taught - sometimes with friend close at hand - I also still use FMS and still not very good at it.

 

This is a drawn out experience - best use good instructor ,buddy box and sim.

 

Most folk fly Mode 1 in this area.

As you move into S. Cheshire and upwards it seems to be Mode 2

 

 

I am told that mode one came from the early days when reeds were the thing and the TX layout stuck when proportional gear came in. Hence flyers found mode1 very familiar.

 

Given a choice I would have started off with mode2 as I operated power boats for many years and they were on mode2 even in this area.

 

Pete

 

 

[Tony Gower]

I fly Mode 2

 

I fly in the South East of England

 

I learnt in the South East of England

 

I learnt from instructors.

 

[AlanJ]

1. Mode 2 - using thumbs

2. N.W. England - Lancashire

3. N.W.England - Lancashire

4. By other club members - and thanks to those for their time and effort.

[Carl Noake]

    Mode one fixed wing. Mode two helicopters. Midlands.

Edited By Carl Noake on 13/01/2010 10:33:45

[Roger Burns]

1. Mode 2

2. E. Midlands

3. E. Midlands

4. Initially self taught, but mostly with Club instructer.

 

Also Left handed but first radio was Kraft (US)

[Adrian Coulson]

Mode 2

Buckinghamshire

Suffolk/Essex

Self taught

[Peter Austin]

1. Mode 1

2. South West (Cornwall)

3. West Midlands

4. Self taught

 

There are only two of us in our club (Truro and District MFC) who fly mode 1 and we both come from the Midlands which does tend to back up the theory that most flyers in the North fly mode 1 and those in the South mode 2.

[m collier]

Mode 1

Essex

Essex

Self Taught

[Jeffrey Way]

1. Mode 2

2. Midlands

2. Midlands

4. Self taught

 

Fly fixed wing & Heli in mode 2, mainly because it is effectively the same control mixed as full size.

[Andy Todd]

1. mode 2

2. south east - Herts

3. south east

4. mostly self taught