RC Helicopters

rhysduck said:
I've asked plenty of times but no-one is ever interested!

Count me in though :)
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Would have to be a weekend for me as UK time = -12 hours for me! So 9pm in the UK would be 9am NZ time and I would be at work :(

If a UK based person wants to organise something I would be up for joining in if its a suitable time for down under!
 
Bit of an old thread but the brother in law bought my son a fairly basic one for Christmas although it's a bit tricky for my son to master at the minute, I've been having tons of fun flying it though.

Crashed quite a bit and it's pretty durable and I think it's a great entry into the world of RC helicopters. There's a winch on the bottom which can drop things mid flight which we find amusing when we hover over our cat then drop things on it, really brings the kid in me out.

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Some nice ones reading through this thread.
 
My dad got me one for about a tenner from Costco. It's a small one but it flies surprisingly well for how much it cost. Think I prefer the smaller ones, less potential to crash into things :p.
 
Bought this beast for lewis, he is only 7 so i went for the cheapest best one i could find.

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Cost £45 and is the size of a door way and the parts for it are very cheap. If there is no rain or wind on Sunday it will be going for its first crash landing. :D
 
That looks like a lot of helicopter for £45 or so, and should be fun to fly outdoors... on a calm day, of course! ;)

Edit: Is this one of the best around for that sort of money?
 
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I'd forgotten about this thread, saw/read it ages ago but only got myself a heli a week or so before christmas, decided to get a cheap co-axial one for a present for someone and then thought sod it and bought myself a fixed pitch one for myself, namely the Blade 120 SR.

Did a fair bit of reading on rcgroups etc, and due to my impatience also limited myself to what the local model shop had in stock, went there thinking either the Blade 120 SR or mSR X, had a chat and looked at the size of the models and went for the 120 SR primarily as it should be more suited for outdoors when it's clear/calm (currently only flown it in the office and my 4m x 4m living room, which is a bit small really :p)

First couple of batteries I was terrible, crashing lots but managed not to break anything, then started to gain a bit more control and could 'hover' (not exactly completely stationary, but airborne and mostly stable) for the entire battery pack. Only things I managed to damage in all those crashes were the tail rotor, chipped the main blades and there was a slight bend in the flybar, still flying but decided to buy a couple of each as replacement/spares and did a mod to the flybar adding carbon tube to stiffen it up.

My main problem now is unless it's tail-in I'm not really in anything approaching full control, tail-in I seem to be able to move around a bit, go up/down, stay mostly-stationary, etc, but anything else is a bit of a lottery still. Last few flights I concentrated on trying to get it side on (both ways) and control it for as long as I felt comfortable before going back to tail-in, seems to be improving slowly and then next step is to try nose-in for a bit, really good fun though even just at the low level stuff I'm doing :)

Also need/want to get a new TX for it (got the cheapo one that comes with the RTF package, it's ok but not great), DX6i or higher is often reccomended but I'm tempted to go with the Turnigy/FlySky TH9x from china with a DSM2/X module instead (about the same price as the DX6i all in, but more features/capabilities iirc?)
 
I got a helicopter present this year controlled form your mobile with a plug in box into the headphones socket.

Really hard to control but good fun :)

Tried it outside today but no joy as it was too windy. My cat goes mental at it trying to attack it mid hover....near took my head off with the rotor blades due to laughing at my cat and not watching what I was doing :D
 
SKILL said:
Also need/want to get a new TX for it (got the cheapo one that comes with the RTF package, it's ok but not great), DX6i or higher is often reccomended but I'm tempted to go with the Turnigy/FlySky TH9x from china with a DSM2/X module instead (about the same price as the DX6i all in, but more features/capabilities iirc?)
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If you're going to stick with the 120 for a while I wouldn't bother upgrading. If you want to get into cp models then you can get the turnigy stuff from the uk warehouse now but I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than order from hobby king again. You get what you pay for.

The dx6 is a decent radio, dx7/8 obviously much better. I went with a dx7 as I couldn't justify the dx8 when starting out.

I can hover my trex550 ok now but weather has halted learning. I have just bought the new compass warp 360 though for practice in the park, not built it yet though.
 
arknor said:
theres nothing wrong with flysky TX's and they arent made by hobbyking just rebranded to turnigy
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Can you buy them in the uk? My experience has shown that ordering from china And/or hobbyking is a complete gamble. You have no come back should you need support. Hobbyking took more than 5 weeks to resolve an issue with an order I placed and even then it took a PayPal claim.

If you want kit you can trust or have the ability to gain support, go with a reputable uk supplier. Also, dx6's tend to go for around the 60quid mark second hand and will then bind to pretty much most of the bind and fly models you can buy. That would be my line of purchase.
 
For the blade 120 I need the DX6i rather than the older DX6, and it seems from completed listings on ebay that they don't go for much less than ~£75-80, and around £85-90 new,

Last time I looked the china sellers on ebay were cheapest for the Tx, then just hobbyking for the module. Not really decided yet though.

I get the support angle, but the DX6i does 'limit' myself to just the hobby horizons models/gear in future basically, whilst the TH9x seems more flexible long term, and I do want to get into more RC stuff over time, planes and quadcopters being two things I'd like to try (or try again in the case of planes), which is the main reason for thinking of the TH9x...
 
RE: HobbyKing

I stay away from anything that would probably need support if it goes wrong.
I've always ordered stuff like bags of screws, clevises, horns, control rods etc for cheap. Have had a couple of Futaba compatible Rx's too and they're brilliant for the money.
 
Could be really tempted to get one in the new year after playing with the one my kid got so much. I like the small ones which can be flown indoors although a lot of them seem to be super tricky to fly and folks generally recommend getting something like the phoenix sim as well. Will leave it for a bit anyways and keep reading as sometimes I rush straight into new interests and regret it afterwards.
 
SKILL said:
For the blade 120 I need the DX6i rather than the older DX6, and it seems from completed listings on ebay that they don't go for much less than ~£75-80, and around £85-90 new,

Last time I looked the china sellers on ebay were cheapest for the Tx, then just hobbyking for the module. Not really decided yet though.

I get the support angle, but the DX6i does 'limit' myself to just the hobby horizons models/gear in future basically, whilst the TH9x seems more flexible long term, and I do want to get into more RC stuff over time, planes and quadcopters being two things I'd like to try (or try again in the case of planes), which is the main reason for thinking of the TH9x...
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Register at rc Heliadicts as the dx6is are always going for 60-65. There is one on there at the mo for 65 delivered.

Just my opinion but I'd not bother with Chinese stuff from hobbyking or similar. As for the limits, it wouldn't really limit you unless you wanted to switch to futuba receivers etc in the future.
 
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