Hey trikeman, remember this still no bids and even though it doesn't say in the title, it's a no reserve auction. If you snipe that thing you may be able to get it for less than $1500. Here's what I do when I snipe on ebay:
You'll obviously have the auction in "My ebay" so make sure you're signed in first,
1.) Now go to my ebay and open the auction.
2.) Up on the top, right click "my ebay" and select open in new window
3.) Bid and go throught the steps until you're at the last click before you're commited at that bid.

After you've done this, minimize so you have it down in the bottom. You can do this over and over, I usually have 3 or 4 windows minimized that I'll just have to click open and hit enter real quick to confirm bid.


With the auction page that you've got open, you can just keep hitting refresh and it will show you exactly how much time is left and if anybody has placed a bid. Leave the other pages minimized on the bottom until you're actually ready to bid. Once the time starts showing minutes and seconds, I usually synch it with a stopwatch.


I usually wait until there's about 35-40 seconds left and place first bid, then close that window so I'm back to that original window. Now keep refreshing so it shows how many seconds and high bidder. Be ready to open second bid if you're beat out. If you've never "sniped" before I'd probably start with the first bid at 60 seconds. This process does work and I've won before in less than 9 seconds by a penny. Man that guy must have been p/o'd!!!! That one was for a set of Arlen Ness bars that I never used because I decided I didn't like them afterwards.

 

I droll over that thing everytime I see it. It's in real good condition. He's only in Conneticut too. Hmmmmm. Maybe, just maybe.

 

Yea that's what I was thinking, not too far from you. You'll be able to remove soon from your sig and have a sweet wheeler for a sweet price.

 

still no bids.

 

So, wait wait. Your saying that because I have proper spelling and grammar, I must not have a life.

Therefor you, who cant spell worth a ****, must have a fascinating life! bwaha

Im 25 and fly helicopters every day. Im quite happy with my life, thank you. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

I hate you

[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img] Are them copters pretty hard to fly? Becuase airplanes are fairly easy to fly once up in the air just wondering if it is somewhat the same with a copter or if you need at least some trainning to go and fly one.

 

LMAO! Wow, are you over the age of 13? [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/img] Your so ignorant that you thought these people were making fun of you when simply they were just providing a completly reasonable answer. Don't post a topic then b*tch at the people that are trying to explain it to you cause you're to stupid to understand, thanks.

 

SOME training? heh, you need training my friend. I am training myself. They are a completely different flying experience than a fixed wing.
Very different. In a fixed wing, you can take your hands off the controls to shuffle with a sectional chart or something, not so with a heli.

Your right hand can not, and will not leave the cyclic. Even for a second, nor a split second. The moment it does, extremely bad things will happen.

Helicopters really take some coordination and practice. Lots and lots of both. This is because of how a helicopter flies. Every control input effects the other
controls. Example, as you pull in more collective, (blade pitch, or lift) the increased torque required by the engine, the helicopter wants to spin or yaw, which requires a pedal adjustment. A steep turn requires more collective to maintain altitude, so as you bank the helicopter over, you must pull in collective, which in turn requires a pedal adjustment... ect. I could talk about it all day long for weeks and only scratch the surface. (I wont get into hovering...)

edit> I forgot to mention some of the good points.
They are totally fun to fly.
The view/visibiliy is completely awesome.
On nice days (here in san diego... its often) we fly with the doors removed. The experience is amazing, flying with no doors.
This morning when we took off it was cloudy and drizzling. The whole flight we were just barely below the cloud ceeling and it was raining on us.
When we returned, there were no flights going out because it was pouring rain. It was awesome.

 

Yeah, I remember when I was like 16 I was on one of those helicopter tour rides and the pilot had a heart attack. I had to fly us back. A bird got sucked into the engine and I ended up having to auto-rotate down and land on the roof of a skyscraper. The hurricane like winds we were having made it kind of tough , but I was fine. LOL J/K

 

really so telling me how to spell has everything to do with the question i asked rite? u pos