What are your other hobbies?

[crxmanpat]

So obviously all of us fly, otherwise why would we be here. ;) But what other hobbies occupy your time? Here's some of mine:

Fishing. Before I moved out to Arizona in 2003, I lived in southwest Florida. Back then, fishing was my only passion (besides my wife of course ;)). Whether it was bass in the local ponds and canals, shark off the Naples pier, or grouper, snook, trout, mackeral and snapper off the coast, you name it I fished for it. Of course, fishing is almost non-existent out here in Arizona, and that's when I took up RC. But I still like to fish whenever I go home to Florida.

Guns/hunting. Growing up in North Florida, we hunter dove, quail and deer every year. Never really enjoyed sitting in a deer stand for hours on end in the freezing cold, so I stuck mostly with birds. These days I stick with dove only. They are very plentiful here in AZ and I try to go out at least once a week during season.

Wrenching on cars. Prior to the 2003 Honda Civic I have now, I had a 1990 Honda CRX Si. It was a very easy car to work on, and my niece is married to a former Honda mechanic, so advice and help was always never far away. I did a lot to that car, including swapping out an engine. Now I wrench on the Civic whenever it needs something done.

What about you?

[Grossman56]

Yes, we're all multi dimensional, I still strap on the guitar once in a while, relive old memories. I also have a back ground in oil painting, and drawing, I switch back and forth, between the two, and then sometimes in the middle when I used colored pencils. I do pretty much what I feel like in art, from landscapes to portraiture to, yes, airplanes. Whatever interests me. Did one of Buffalo Bill for an Art contest and won second. I also have one of Gus MacRae (Robert Duval actually) which I want to enter soon, my best work so far.

Grossman56

[ace184]

Fishing-mainly bass. But some catfish and crappie. If I am feeling frosty, I'll go after some gar just for the fight.

Video games-I swap between pc and console. Rigjt now I am on my xbox one. I really only play world of tanks lately. Message me if you want to play some time.

Bike riding-I've got a nice mountain bike from Specialized. We have a lot of singletrack trails here, so I have plenty of places to ride.

[XF-15DCC]

Beer geek!

My son and I enjoy the craft beers and specialized imports from the world. I have been lucky to try all the Trappist brews and occasionally get my hands on something that is hard to find. I'm not a beer snob, you offer me a brew and I'll enjoy it, docent mean I would buy it. All done in moderation of course.

I was into model railroading. Something I wanted to do when I was active duty but never had the time or space. Once I had the room and some time after I tired, I looked at the layout and realized it was going to be one big dust collector, sold everything before I sank too much $$ and received a plane on Fathers day last year and here I am.

Kevin

[farmflyer]

ace184 I've been loosening up my casting elbow lately myself. Been on the lake three times in the last two weeks in between wind storms.

[ace184]

We just started having warm weather this week. Last week we averaged like 40 degrees. This week we've been over 80 everyday. So I am going to wait until the weather patterns stabilize a little bit. Fish here are stubborn. I do need to put new lines on all my stuff though, and finish my homemade bait bucket/seat. I am a baitcaster guy, I love it. And you don't get many people asking to use it because most people hate them.

[farmflyer]

Baitcasters a must unless I'm throwing really light baits they give you much better control on your casts and yes you don't get asked to borrow your stuff much. Crappie and bass are moving up shallow here in the southern Texas panhandle. I'm also into bow hunting especially feral hogs.

[rc-eflyer]

Good topic, its always nice to learn more about the interests of the people in the Hobby Squawk forums. I'll say for me, in order of most active, it would be 1 RC aircraft (DUH!!), 2 flight simulation, 3 Guitar, 4 scale modeling (aircraft of course), then golfing, fishing, and eating stuff that's bad for me.

[The Huff]

I've been doing a lot of work lately as a part time porn star. It's been so
busy that I find it's distracting me from aviation, both full scale and RC.
Sigh ....... 🙄

[rc-eflyer]

I've been doing a lot of work lately as a part time porn star. It's been so
busy that I find it's distracting me from aviation, both full scale and RC.
Sigh ....... 🙄

HA HA but now I'm not sure if I get the correct meaning of "If your pack's not swellin, you're not gellin ..."

Steve

[crxmanpat]

I've been doing a lot of work lately as a part time porn star. It's been so
busy that I find it's distracting me from aviation, both full scale and RC.
Sigh ....... 🙄

:sick::p

[xplaneguy]

Aircraft Wreckchasing-My daughter and I have been discovering and visiting aircraft wreck sites for more than 15 years around Edwards AFB/Mojave Desert and a few North of Las Vegas. Over 70 sites visited to date.

Camping-We tent camp at least four times a year at Ultralight Fly-In events and on our desert property. We love hanging out by a campfire, under the stars.

Flying-We love flying, mostly Ultralights, Powered Paragliders, and Sailplanes, though flying an F-16 and T-38 wasn't bad. ;)

Airshows-Kind of a no brainer.

Visiting military bases-We travel to and stay at military bases and visit their respective museums around the country.

Photography-Not real good at this hobby but enjoy capturing our love of the hobby and all our other interests.

Other hobbies include: Model rocketry, plastic modeling, control line, free flight, vintage RC helicopters

[Alpha]

Don't be shy, Xplaneguy, show us some of those awesome Wreckchasing photos I know you have stored up! What a cool activity for you and Evelyn. Color me jealous!

[xplaneguy]

Here's one of an Aerospace Research Pilot School F-104A crash site I discovered with a fellow wreckchaser on 30 Jan 1999.

The accident occurred on 15 Jun 1964. The pilot was Lt. Patrick Henry, Jr., US Navy, AFSC, AFFTC. Lt Henry was a member of Class 63-A of the ARPS (Aerospace Research Pilot School), Edwards AFB, California, and scheduled to fly two zoom-climb maneuvers as part of the curriculum. His first zoom-climb was routine at 0830 hours in 56-764 and he landed in a normal manner where he reached a peak altitude of 78,600 feet. The second mission was scheduled for 1020 hours (and it was to be Lt. Henry's fifth zoom mission). This second zoom was routine in all respects except at the peak of the zoom. Radar plot showed Lt Henry's initial climb angle at 45 degreesgradually increasing to 52 degrees near the peak of the maneuver. Entry ground speed recorded by Edwards radar plot was 1,090 knots and the ground speed at the top of the zoom 270 knots. Maximum altitude of 83,000 feet was reached. As the nose fell through the peak of the zoom the aircraft yawed to the left approx 135 degrees. The nose nearly leveled then yawed right and the aircraft entered a flat spin. Lt. Henry attempted spin recovery with the aircraft spinning at one revolution per every 6 seconds, nose about 10 degrees below the horizon, wings level. Several engine air-starts attempted passing through 65,000 feet but were unsuccessful. At 35,000 feet Lt. Henry selected take-off flaps with no effect. Spinning through 25,000 feet the drag chute was deployed, also with negligible effect. Pilot ejected successfully at 4,000 feet AGL. He was immediately rescued by helicopter. The aircraft impacted the ground still in a flat spin, contacting the ground slightly nose first and broke in two. The fuel tanks exploded and the aircraft burned from the front frame of the engine forward. Crash occurred 3 nautical miles north of Rogers Dry Lake, Edwards AFB, CA.

[doctormike]

I am pretty much consumed with RC building and flying. I still play blues (guitar, bass, and blues harp) now and then. Sailing. Camping in the mountans. Gardening. Water color painting and sculpture. Eating Santa Fe's green chili chicken enchilada's and draft ale! That's all...Doc.

[StormyDog1962]

I've been two dimensional for years as I played lots of Golf and would spend 8-10 hours pretty much every weekend at the field flying. Having recently moved to South Carolina I plan on taking up Kayaking and spending time at the beaches of Hilton Head and getting a new RC Club started closer to me as the 2 existing ones are nearly an hour away. I enjoy building planes from kits and have a dream project of the Balsa USA Fokker DR1 1/3 Scale and I do enjoy plastic modeling.

[PappaBear]

I find all these posts very interesting. Its nice to hear what other people do apart from build and fly model aircraft. I have visited one or two WW2 aircraft crash sights in the UK over the years, I have some photos some where. If I ever come across them I will post them here. I love to visit old abandoned airfields, I find them so interesting. I try to imagine what it would have been like when they were a hive of activity. The people that worked there, and the aircraft that operated from them.

I will visit aircraft museums, and have been to many both here in the US and in the UK before I moved here. Airshows of course, that really goes without saying. Although it has been awhile since I have been to one.

Other non aviation things I enjoy. I like to visit old buildings and monuments. I marvel at the structure and the way things have been constructed. Some of the old churches in England for example are hundreds of years old. Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. Why did they drag those huge stone blocks over 100 miles to build a stone structure in the middle of a field. I often wonder how on earth one would move a 50 ton block of stone up and down hills over 1000 years ago. Amazing really.

Anyway, thats some of the things I like to do when I get time. As well as this I love to sped time with my wife and family too.

Martin.

[Prowler901]

Howdy folks. Been hanging around here for a couple months. Thought this thread would be a good place to introduce myself. Besides the RC airplanes, I've also done a lot of plastic models of aircraft, cars, and ships. Ive dabbled in wooden ship models. My Dad and I have done a lot of model railroading. And, now I'm in the process of building a 3/4" scale live steam locomotive. I like flight simulators, space simulators, and train simulators. I also enjoy practicing guitar. Mostly heavy metal. The older original stuff from the 70's and 80's.

[Alpha]

Another axe thrasher, welcome, Prowler901!

I didn't know there were train simulators? A 3/4" scale live steam loco sounds like quite a project. Steam is such a captivating means of transportation. Burn something, boil something, push the resulting steam through something, then something moves. Genius.

[Prowler901]

Thanks, Alpha!

There are a few train simulators. I use one called Trainz. I'm a huge Colorado Narrow Gauge steam fan. So, I modeled a whole bunch of steam locos and rolling stock for it. I've been working on the live steam loco for about three years now. It's one of those "slow and steady wins the race" projects. :) One part at a time. But, I've wanted to build one since I was very young. So, it is an exciting project for me.