RC Helicopters

Jimmy1983 · 1 Jan 2008 at 21:52

Anyone got one off these?

Willis · 1 Jan 2008 at 21:58

Yep got one off my GF for crimbo mental little thing

Its electric one and takes some practice to learn how to fly.

Dark_Injection · 1 Jan 2008 at 21:58

My mate does, he flies it around the office at his work lol.

Looks good fun when i see him on it, havent used it myself though.

badbob · 1 Jan 2008 at 21:59

Electric or nitro?

GarethDW · 1 Jan 2008 at 21:59

Got my son one of the nanocopters after seeing it being demoed in a large department store... we've been having great fun with it. So easy to control, and has survived several large crashes (which means it's better than the Air Hogs plane he had before).

Fuzz · 1 Jan 2008 at 22:01

I used to have a nitro one, got rather too expensive to keep the thing in the air to be honest.
So sold it and bought some nitro buggies instead

Jimmy1983 · 1 Jan 2008 at 22:09

Just got a battery one myself, having problems setting it up tho. Do yours have trimming on them?

Each time I fly it, it just tends to go up and down?! :S

GarethDW · 1 Jan 2008 at 22:14

Stick a blob of blue tack on the nose to weigh it down a bit. Then give it some thrust to get it airborne using the trim button to stop it rotating. You'll then find that instead of it just going up or down it moves forward and you can use the other control to steer the copter.

The guy selling me the copter suggested I do that, when I was chatting to him for about 10 minutes in Debenhams just before Xmas. His advice was to let my son practice without the added weight, so that he got the hang of being able to make it hover, without just crashing into the ceiling, and then to add the blue tack once he'd got that sorted.

Neil777 · 1 Jan 2008 at 22:23

I've got one of the little picoo z's, took it apart a few months ago and replaced the brass bushes with 3mm bearings and the propshaft with one made of carbon fibre. Made the world of difference, its flies so smoothly now.

Sinny · 1 Jan 2008 at 22:25

I got a Picoo Z for christmas, so much fun but make sure their isnt a draft. and get some extra tail fins as they can break easily after a lot of crashing ^_^.

rayer · 1 Jan 2008 at 22:27

My neighbour got one for Xmas, and flew it over the garden fence and hoovered in front of my patio door. Scared the cr*p outta me !!!

badbob · 1 Jan 2008 at 22:29

It's got a built-in vacuum cleaner?

Neil777 · 1 Jan 2008 at 22:30

Here's a guide to fitting bearings and the carbon propshaft

http://www.instructables.com/id/Mod-for-Picoo-Z-Mini-Helicopter/

Welshy · 1 Jan 2008 at 22:54

I got a Picoo Z for crimbo from the misses, right good fun harassing people in the kitchen with

233 · 1 Jan 2008 at 22:58

same got a picoo z as well for vrimbo

fricking awesome

perox · 1 Jan 2008 at 23:22

Jimmy1983 said:
Just got a battery one myself, having problems setting it up tho. Do yours have trimming on them?

Each time I fly it, it just tends to go up and down?! :S

What type of helicopter are we talking about here a Picoo Z type or a proper 4-6 channel helicopter?

Willis · 1 Jan 2008 at 23:30

I WANT ONE

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=A1cn8sJYCLg&feature=related

Dolph · 1 Jan 2008 at 23:39

I got a pico Z for xmas too, soo much fun

Jimmy1983 · 1 Jan 2008 at 23:40

perox said:
What type of helicopter are we talking about here a Picoo Z type or a proper 4-6 channel helicopter?

Its from a competitor so cant link but its called Remote Control Mini Pixie Helicopter

Lashout_UK · 1 Jan 2008 at 23:50

I got one of the little baby ones, and a scaled-up version about 60cm long.

The little one's great fun and very easy to fly - the big one's just a little more imposing to have flying near you

Let my dad have a go with it - first thing he does is see how high it can fly. Of course, it got to about 80 feet (long out of range by then), went over the house and plummeted to the ground.

Perfectly fine, much to our suprise!