rc helicopter flying

cyclopopcicle · 18 Sep 2008 at 20:46

hi
a couple of months ago i bought a honey bee king2 RC heli, well after a bit of practicing i am getting somewhere with it
link to youtube vid from today (there are others on there also)
loving the hobby

m0rte · 18 Sep 2008 at 20:53

Nice job getting it to fly so straight :cool:

I have a Honey bee CP2 and managed to get it to hover after hours of tinkering when the motor decided to overheat and melt the surrounding wires

TripleT · 18 Sep 2008 at 20:55

Not being funny but what else can you do other than just fly around?

With cars you can make tracks, race, jumps etc. Just seems a bit limited to me.

(I don't do either and not slating it I'm just curious! Think I'd get bored

)

Awesome · 18 Sep 2008 at 21:18

what else can you do other than just fly around?

This sort of thing float your boat ?

Granted it would be a little more difficult to do with a honey bee, and might take longer than a couple of weeks to get to that standard

Kieran

closeratio · 18 Sep 2008 at 21:30

Looks good

I remember the first time I flew an RC Heli, I was at an indoor event I think and one of the guys who was there had one of those cheaper contra-rotating bladed helis. He was a nice guy and when I told him I'd been flying RC plaes for a few years he let me have a go. It's completely different to what I was used to and what the simulator made it look like, and I didn't realise how much concentration it needed. Managed to get it to land on a stool though :cool:

Anyway I bought one about a month later and I've still got it now, about a year after I got it. Got a question though, because even though I've been out of the whole RC Flying loop for a while seeing these RC heli threads recently and the price they're at now makes me want to get one again. Thing I want to know is do real RC Helis (either the fixed pitch or collective pitch ones, not the contra-rotating ones) handle anything like they do on the simulator? Reason I ask is they all seem ridiculously easy to fly on there, and I can get pretty much any heli to hover upside down without too much messing. (Don't mean to hijack the thread or anything, just looking for a simple 'yes' or 'no' really)

TripleT said:
Not being funny but what else can you do other than just fly around?

With cars you can make tracks, race, jumps etc. Just seems a bit limited to me.

I don't blame you for thinking like that. I did at first, both before and after I'd started flying fixed-wing aircraft. But once you actually have a go at it, you realise how much you have to concentrate, how quick your reactions need to be, and how tuned your hand-eye coordination has to be.

I mean I used to see other club members just hovering their nitro helis for 20 mins or so, just keeping it still in front of them, and I could never understand why they did it or what kept them interested. But like I said once you've tried it you realise that keeping your heli hovering completely still can be one of the hardest things you can do with an RC heli.

cyclopopcicle · 22 Sep 2008 at 17:33

TripleT said:
Not being funny but what else can you do other than just fly around?

With cars you can make tracks, race, jumps etc. Just seems a bit limited to me.

(I don't do either and not slating it I'm just curious! Think I'd get bored )

well i took it up again today, being a bit more adventurous with it (bare in mind i am still learning)

here is a link to all my vids, you can see my progress
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cyclopops&search_type=&aq=f

Wicksta · 22 Sep 2008 at 17:37

Here's another example of what you can do with a heli, my mate flying a sub micro:

Peter Diffey · 22 Sep 2008 at 17:41

cyclopopcicle said:
hi
a couple of months ago i bought a honey bee king2 RC heli, well after a bit of practicing i am getting somewhere with it
link to youtube vid from today (there are others on there also)
loving the hobby

Your garden is awsome, its huge!

dowie · 22 Sep 2008 at 18:46

TripleT said:
Not being funny but what else can you do other than just fly around?

With cars you can make tracks, race, jumps etc. Just seems a bit limited to me.

(I don't do either and not slating it I'm just curious! Think I'd get bored )

take a look round youtube

there is a guy who's fitted rocket launchers to his and another guy who fitted a fishing line and actually caught a fish with his....

ok so those are a bit extreme but theses things are seriously fun without going to those lengths