New Heli

[TINY_MAXX]

I've been in the rc world for a while owning nitro trucks and cars, but today i made my first airborn purchase. I bought a E-flite Blade CP+, been trying my best and managed to fly it a little bit with a minor crash resulting in a broken blade and a broken pitch control link, but it has been fixed. Anyone else fly a electric heli that can maybe give me any tips or tricks as they would be greatly needed. This heli also came with symmetrical blades for flying it upside down and doing tricks, but i wont be using them for a while.

 

[Candyman]

Damn, there's a blast from the past. 'Sup Tiny.
Anyway, welcome to the world of helis. Machines that fly is spite of themselves. There are a lot of things to work on if you're just starting. As you've decided to learn on a CP model, the degree of difficulty is higher. Just a few random thoughts to start:

- Sim. If you can get your hands on one, a sim helps a ton. Crashing a computer model doesn't cost anything.
- Pitch gauge. Setting pitch on a CP is critical. I'm sure you've started investigating how to set pitch curves. But in order to do them precisely, a gauge is very important.
- Read. A lot. Check out the heli sections of RCGroups or RunRyder. There is a lot of info there about how to set all aspects of the heli from pitch, to throttle, to linkages, to gyro setting and all sorts of stuff. There are about 1,000,000 factors in play every time you hit the power and it's overwhelming at first.
- Spares. Just keep yourself armed with spare parts. Main blades. Feathering shafts. Tail blades. Landing gear. You'll crash. And when you do, things will break. Nicer to have them on hand if it happens.

That's just a few things. There are a lot more but that gets the ball rolling.

 

[Rolex]

Candy man is right on all of that.
As a real 1:1 helicopter pilot once said, "The instant the helicopter is one inch off the ground, it's in an extremely precarious situation."

Keep that in mind, and go get yourself the training gear. It will lower the CG, and protect the machine till you can master it.

 

[Karl M]

+1 on the sim, I'm still waiting for mine. As a 1:1 helicopter mechanic myself, just remember that there are two theories as to why they fly.
1. They are so ugly that the earth repells them.
2. They beat the air into submission.

 

[moiz4got]

KARL M..... great theory man..

I have been flying model planes from past one year. I have just started learning to fly my Razor450 and T-rex 450 full 3D helicopters and I realized that its much easier to fly the big birds ( model planes like the Yak 54 - 3D 50CC, katana 50CC) rather to managing these crickets.

HAHA!!!!! keep working on it and you need to be really calm to fly these babies as your panic will not give you any room for forgiveness.

Without the training gear or understanding their fundamentals its really difficult to get the hang of helies. There movements, responses, and reflexes are totally different from Airplanes or any airborn toy.

KEEP ROCKING PPL!!!!

 

[Rolex]

1. They are so ugly that the earth repells them.
2. They beat the air into submission.

I've only heard the first one. Thanks for #2. Lmao

 

[devinbrown07]

that one is funny karl...

 

[nate691023]

I've only heard the first one. Thanks for #2. Lmao

HUmmm


The earth is like a big magnet IT Suck the Rc Helicopter Down.. From the Beautiful sky.......


But it is funny to watch them slap the ground.. When it not your Helicopter...

What kills me I can not find a Mini GI Joe to put in the new Blade 400 i am getting next week..