Heli newb gets a.......heli!

[MCNorris]

So I got my heli in yesterday that I bought from Radron, First off I set it up on my washing machine to see what servo's did what exactly and I flipped this switch at the top, BAD IDEA the blades started spinning and the throttle did noting, it gave me and my washing machine a good couple of whacks. So I decided to read the book a little. Then took it out to play around a bit...... Well, it's alot different than I thought, I got about an inch off the ground one time but it just about tipped over so I stopped lol, I'm starting to think I should have walked before I ran.

Any advice from some heli guys on learning how to fly this beast?

 

[flynryan289]

start with a coaxial heli like the blade cx2 master that then go fp heli then your 6 channel cp just to let you know they are hard to fly but with practice youll get it! then have a blast just get you're wallet uot youll be b buying parts good luck!!!!

 

[Rolex]

LMAO!!! Of all the switches you decided to flip, you hit Throttle hold. That keeps the motor or engine running at full throttle and only gives you + or - collective with the throttle stick.

I just finished mine today, and my test flight never went over an inch high. I'm still balancing and tweaking the settings and controls. There's a lot going on in a heli, and you're getting WAY ahead of yourself.
Since you've never flown before, I highly suggest you get the training gear and spend several hours hovering in all directions till you get the feel for it.
Don't even THINK about flying it till you can hover it with the nose facing you, facing left and facing right. If you only do it the easy way with the tail towards you, I can guarantee you'll wreck it the first time it gets in the air.

https://www.rcnitrotalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=73974

 

[MCNorris]

Yea, it was an impulse buy, I'll get some training gear and practice hovering. Does a buddy cord work as well with a heli as a plane? I may be able to go that route. Youtube is not helping me at all.

Nice one BTW rolex, now does 450 a measure of size?

 

[Rolex]

Mine has a 700mm rotor. 32 inches from the tip of the rotor to the tail.

A buddy cord would help, but with a heli, you need to spend many hours working on your hover. If you make a mistake when you're standing that close to it, it's not easy to react in time to take control and lower the throttle.
You're better off just getting it to come off the ground by a few inches, and learn to add some right stick at lift off, as well as checking the rudder drift. Keep tweaking your controls and just keep it no more than a foot off the ground so you can instantly kill throttle if something goes wrong, and you won't damage it with a 12" drop.
Spend a LOT of time hovering with nose towards you. Everything will seem backwards, and that's something you have to get used to.

 

[ratchet1974]

Mine has a 700mm rotor. 32 inches from the tip of the rotor to the tail.

A buddy cord would help, but with a heli, you need to spend many hours working on your hover. If you make a mistake when you're standing that close to it, it's not easy to react in time to take control and lower the throttle.
You're better off just getting it to come off the ground by a few inches, and learn to add some right stick at lift off, as well as checking the rudder drift. Keep tweaking your controls and just keep it no more than a foot off the ground so you can instantly kill throttle if something goes wrong, and you won't damage it with a 12" drop.
Spend a LOT of time hovering with nose towards you. Everything will seem backwards, and that's something you have to get used to.

You're probably correct Rolex with staying close to the ground, but I noticed that with the smaller ones, like the blade CP's you seem to get more ground effect..........some times it's easire to get 2-3 feet up (It's scary though the first few times.

MC, you may want to consider getting a flght simulator like realflight or Pheonix. It's amazing how realistic they are. It will be a bit different, than the real thing, but doing nose in flight (noise pointing at you), it tough & if you crash the sim you hit the red button & the re-build is free

Have fun, take little steps, and if you get frutrated, step away for a while. Even hovering a battery pack for 7 or 8 minutes, can get nerve - racking after a while, so don't push yourself too much.

Give yourself a little expo on the sticks as well.......This way they are not as sensitive (sometimes when you panic you tend to react and over-correct, at least I did at first).

Helis are great, but it's like trying to balance a ball bearing on a piece of glass & then walking down the street.

 

[x_doug_x]

man seeing you crash that thing hurt me... i hope you get it fixed and it didn't cost too much money, and good luck.. when that thing hit the ground i cringed.........