That is a huge beast. You must fly it away from the public. What transmitter do you use with it? Do you fly it at displays?
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That is a huge beast. You must fly it away from the public. What transmitter do you use with it? Do you fly it at displays?
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Looking at the price of these, they are for serious flyers only!
Not quite the sort of thing to buy for the kids to fly around the house, I wouldn't have thought!
Some of the (much!) cheaper ones are quite appealing though.
It's a proper chopper not this rubbish china stuff!
I do have a cheap Eflite CP2 for work and stuff!
I fly the rex 600 any where. Works carpark, local park, when walking the dog, fishing. Nah no displays as im not that good! I use a JR
Considering getting that, very well rated.
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Bought a total of 3 RC helicopters in the past, of all which plummeted to earth, thus crashing and disintergrating into many pieces, some of which were never found.
Oh well, there goes my dream career of being an Apache AH-64 pilot down the pan. . . .
Oh well, there goes my dream career of being an Apache AH-64 pilot down the pan. . . .
This is why I am umm'ing and arr'ing about getting a helicopter. I can see it lasting a good 5minutes with me.
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All of the cheap 3 channel infared type choppers (with gyro) are very easy to fly, you'll pick it up in a day but being coaxial rotating (2 sets of 2 blades going in oposite directions) they can only be flown indoors. An example would be anything form Syma
Next up you'll find 4 channel usually with only 1 set of 2 blades, this is the first step to a proper helicopter, they will be about £60-80 be a lot more maneuverable but require a lot more input to keep them still and do what you want. An example would be a Solo pro, walkera cb100
Then you go up to 5/6 channel, collective pitch which is £150+ and will take a lot of practise and will break just about everytime you crash, but they are the most maneuverable and can fly upsidown and things like that! I have a micro CP, Walkera 4G6S, despite its small size I only ever fly it outside.
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Ha this thread makes me chuckle.... got my little one a small indoors extreme flyer 3 ch infra-red micro type. Full metal construction though.
We had some fun with it..... Made a small sling to hang under the heli and managed to hoist three lego men with it :0 rest of xmas day spent Para trooping Lego men lol.
Also had a funny moment where we tried it outside due to the box saying that it can only fly indoors. Well we were quite impressed with this little micro heli flying outside with all the lights going at night. All was well until the thing got to a height of about 10meters where it must have gone out of range, then proceeded to travel out of our road over the houses lights flashing lol.
Until the power ran out, and plummeted to earth a couple of roads over. After knocking on doors asking to look in gardens for a helicopter …. We eventually knocked on one door and asked if we could look in their garden and we got the reply (oh, I was washing up and saw something with flashing blue lights fall out of the sky and land in the garden….. It’s been there with the lights flashing into our patio doors, but we didn’t want to go see what it was) lmao.
Any way even after that fall the heli still worked!! But now the charger has packed up and won’t charge the battery so I might have to buy something a little bigger
Quite fancy a 4ch small indoor/outdoor model
We had some fun with it..... Made a small sling to hang under the heli and managed to hoist three lego men with it :0 rest of xmas day spent Para trooping Lego men lol.
Also had a funny moment where we tried it outside due to the box saying that it can only fly indoors. Well we were quite impressed with this little micro heli flying outside with all the lights going at night. All was well until the thing got to a height of about 10meters where it must have gone out of range, then proceeded to travel out of our road over the houses lights flashing lol.
Until the power ran out, and plummeted to earth a couple of roads over. After knocking on doors asking to look in gardens for a helicopter …. We eventually knocked on one door and asked if we could look in their garden and we got the reply (oh, I was washing up and saw something with flashing blue lights fall out of the sky and land in the garden….. It’s been there with the lights flashing into our patio doors, but we didn’t want to go see what it was) lmao.
Any way even after that fall the heli still worked!! But now the charger has packed up and won’t charge the battery so I might have to buy something a little bigger
Quite fancy a 4ch small indoor/outdoor model
My 107G arrived this morning, amazing little thing - rock stable hover, no fuss circuits of the living room and gentle landings on the coffee table, very impressed indeed. One small issue - it drives the infrared catflap crazy!
£21 very well spent IMHO.
£21 very well spent IMHO.
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Oh it was only a cheap one from extreme fliers robocopter gst
Awesome wanna wait for a few more comments before ordering, any1 know does it need any trimming?
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Just had a look on buzz flyer and they have some very nice micro helicopters.
I quote fancy an upgradeable micro heli...as I cant see me flying outside much past thw garden really. So something to fly indoors....
I quote fancy an upgradeable micro heli...as I cant see me flying outside much past thw garden really. So something to fly indoors....
Yep, there is a trim dial in the centre of the controller, just turn it until the hovering heli stops rotating, done.
Thats why you need to get Phoenix RC Sim if you want to start flying the proper heli's.
It must have saved my £100's in the long run!