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Post by PinkFloyd on Sept 24, 2011 21:03:15 GMT
I have a day off tomorrow so will strap her back together and take a few more vids.... first one will be a controlled hover over Merton's painting which is located in the smallest room in the house (it's basically an off room pee hole).... should be fun as there is one of those lights on "extraction fan" starts sucking air out of the joint types of thing.... so a bit of skill required to hover over the Merton...... Take off will be from a "disco bowl" toilet pan..... stay tuned
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2011 21:22:22 GMT
We've had some still weather here Mike so I've taken one of mine outside.
It amazes me how high these things go and stay in control. The transmitters work really well.
Batteries come off a bit warm so I let them cool before I charge them. I've been flying for an hour, no problems with heat. (yet)
I imagine with the boom on the back, it'll go better outdoors too. Less for the wind to grip. I find them incredibly easy to control. Outside is a bit of a bugger and if you get a sidewind, you have to hold it very steady by not actually flying straight on the remote but it flies straight in the air if you see what I mean. With a breeze today, mine was flying 45 degrees off from straight but actually flying straight!!
The balance of the heli will probably change with the boom too. It'll probably need a different trim to compensate for the back end.
You know, you can get an MSR around £68 BNF? It's tempting 'cos it's a bit more whippy. I find the MCX2 quite slow at times. Very sedate, but good for learning I suppose.
Ian
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Post by PinkFloyd on Sept 25, 2011 9:05:43 GMT
One guy on the net experienced pretty bad vibration problems when he fitted the tail boom, hopefully he was just unlucky. Hey Ian, who do you use for your helicopter parts? These blokes are excellent and only charge £1.10 P&P www.rc-choppers.com/
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Post by PinkFloyd on Sept 25, 2011 10:50:40 GMT
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Post by PinkFloyd on Sept 25, 2011 10:59:40 GMT
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Post by PinkFloyd on Sept 25, 2011 11:20:42 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2011 17:16:23 GMT
My, my. She IS holding a big chopper.
One firm I've used is the Lings Lynn place in Norfolk. I've visited the shop actually.
I have a BNF MSR on the way from RC Helis. I've decided to try a bit more speed indoors. Depending on how I feel about this one, the next will be the Bee perhaps or the 120 SR. Not sure.
I've flown single blades before and they can be a bit tricky, depending on how well they're built. I hear that the MSR is pretty good, so I'll get some serious one blade practice in before going for a big 'un.
I've been using one MCX2 indoors just for navigation/maneuver practice and another for outdoor so I can get a feel for driving in a slight breeze.
The MSR will go a bit better out there and it's a tad faster. That's one thing with the MCX - it is actually quite a slow heli. At least it feels slow for me, but then it has good control and I like the controller quite a lot. A lot better than the Bladez and their derivatives. (There are a lot of them!!)
If you're flying smooth with the MCX (which it looks as though you are now) then it may be time for you to move on as well!! (already)
I tend to poodle around spot landing to get a grip rather than chuck them around. I know it's tempting after seeing the You Tube stuff but those guys are wacking them into everything in the way!!! Pretty crazy really.
Another really unnerving thing to do is to send it up high outside and control it at a distance. That's good practice for outdoor flying but can be quite fraught since you're not as closely in touch with the heli.
That needs practice before you go out with anything big since it's easy to make a mistake in the big sky!!!!
Now I've seen her whopper, I may take a look at them as well ...
Ian
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2011 18:30:04 GMT
Ian, Oooohhhh, you are awful (in the style of Frankie Howard) ;D . @ Mike and Ian, If you feel you ever want to put childish toys behind you and join the men ;D , you might be interested in taking a look at this: - www.wrenturbines.co.uk/engines/helicopter/wren-44-helicopterFWIW, I have very good connections with the guys that own and run the company as I was able to persuade my employers at the time to 'do them a favour' and cast their first 'hot end' turbine wheels for them, which got the company up and running. Let me know if you have any interest and I'll try to re-activate the contact - they are located just a few miles up the road from me, outside Rotherham. Cheers, Dave.
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Post by PinkFloyd on Sept 25, 2011 18:44:38 GMT
Ian, I think I am going to go for the three foot long chopper, I just feel it is a lot of bird for the money AND it would allow me to fly outdoors (less opportunity to crash into a wall and soft grass landings have got to be better than wooden floor crashes).... the little MCX2 has been fun but I feel a bit restricted indoors and am itching to chase some sheep around the fields 3 foot of 'copter for £64 seems good VFM and it would be spectacular at night.... have a look at the lighting compliment on it!
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Post by PinkFloyd on Sept 25, 2011 18:47:53 GMT
You can see from this that it is a pretty solid machine:
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2011 18:57:06 GMT
Titter ye not!!!!
And they are serious ones on that girl .......
Mike, the big one is only 3 channel so there's no banking although it's cheap. If that comes down ...... the damage!!!!
The little one is very like the cheap Bladez clones. They're ok. Again 3 channels, but the battery doesn't come out 'cos they're usb charging so you get 7 minutes to fly and 40 minutes to charge which isn't too good either.
Great for a real beginner to learn orientation skills but as a heli, pretty mundane.
You need at least 4 channels. Forward/back, left/right nose, up/down, left/right whole body.
You've got me going now!!!! I was quite happy tootling around in the twilight until you mentioned the MCX2.
I have friends with decent helis and I've flown them. (trusting and rich/daft friends!!) I've flow a two footer and it's truly scary. You are SO afraid of dropping from the sky once they get big. That's where I learned restraint on the little ones!!
I'll have a 120 SR before Christmas, once I've got used to the feel of the single blade properly.
After that, it'll be a decision between fixed blade and variable pitch blade .........
Then perhaps airplanes. It never ends!
Have you got the boom on? I reckon the flight could be a bit quicker although as you say, it could start to vibrate. Worth a go though if you've broken the tail.
Get an MSR, MIke. I reckon you're controlling it enough to push on.
Scary moment 3 outside tonight - heli up in sky. Tiny wind. Heli pushed as far forward as I could push and it wasn't moving!!! To get it back, I had to do a series of swoop downs and then revs to get it back up, then it came in. It's quite strange flying in a straight line with the tail yawed one way to counter and even use the aileron to keep the heli straight at the same time.
Good discipline to keep it on the right track before I take a big 'un up for real.
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Post by PinkFloyd on Sept 25, 2011 19:10:23 GMT
RTF = Ready to fly, ready to f@@@ or both? I mean, YES..... it is "ready" to fly but you could also f@@@ it on the first outing RTF = ready to fondle if that bird holding the chopper is anything to go by
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Post by PinkFloyd on Sept 25, 2011 19:18:24 GMT
Ian,
I wish I hadn't bought that helicopter as I can see me getting into this BIG TIME.... I AM going to introduce a RC Helicopter forum and, once we are all proficient pilots, will start reviewing them.... I have asked Sam to join the forum and hope he does, he will be the technical genius (or Gnu as he prefers to be called).... you can be test pilot, I can be buffoon who crashes them into trees.... the more people who join the better it will be as we will end up with a squadron of experts.
Good idea or bad?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2011 19:21:58 GMT
Yes, well she is a bit of a corker. Standing there like that holding a chopper is just too tempting. You are going to flatten a sheep, Mike.
Dave, that stuff looks scary. I be frightened of sending it up into the sky for fear of dropping it on someone. It's bad enough with a Blade. I send it right up until I can hardly see the bloody thing and then I wonder what I'm steering!! At least it's only about an ounce.
As far as a heli forum goes, we're in a majority of two here with possibly the others thinking we're nuts. It's not until you get into it that it grabs you. I just use helis to relax. There's no way you can think about work while putting a heli up!!
What does gnu think? Has the heli club got a site. It could be useful for them too.
Ian
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Post by PinkFloyd on Sept 25, 2011 19:27:22 GMT
Typically British,,,,,
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Post by PinkFloyd on Sept 25, 2011 19:30:10 GMT
Black stockings and choppers are actually quite a turn on
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Post by PinkFloyd on Sept 25, 2011 19:32:29 GMT
"ABLY MODELLED BY LINDA MY GOOD LADY WIFE, WHO ALSO LOVINGLY PACKS YOU MACHINE CAREFULLY TO MAKE SURE IT REACHES YOU IN TIP TOP CONDITION" hmmmmm.... I wonder if she is wearing knickers when she packages them up.... "lovingly" packs them sounds like a very good service for £64 I can seriously see a lot of middle aged anoraks "sniffing" around that model shop hoping to catch a glimpse of "Linda" lovingly packing the choppers ready for despatch.
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Post by PinkFloyd on Sept 25, 2011 19:41:40 GMT
Only ordered it last night Ian so it will probably be in service on Tuesday evening.... gonna adjust the swashplate settings seeing as the bird is naked.... plenty of access to the innards.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2011 19:42:45 GMT
Well, I may go there for a nose around. Ian
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Post by PinkFloyd on Sept 25, 2011 19:53:24 GMT
Well, I may go there for a nose around. Ian Man: 'Evening, squire! Squire: (stiffly) Good evening. Man: Is, uh,...Is your wife a goer, eh? Know whatahmean, know whatahmean, nudge nudge, know whatahmean, say no more? Squire: I, uh, I beg your pardon? Man: Your, uh, your wife, does she go, eh, does she go, eh? Squire: (flustered) Well, she sometimes "goes", yes. Man: Aaaaaaaah bet she does, I bet she does, say no more, say no more, knowwhatahmean, nudge nudge? Squire: (confused) I'm afraid I don't quite follow you. Man: Follow me. Follow me. That's good, that's good! A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat! Squire: Are you, uh,...are you selling something? Man: SELLING! Very good, very good! Ay? Ay? Ay? (pause) Oooh! Ya wicked Ay! Wicked Ay! Oooh hooh! Say No MORE! Squire: Well, I, uh.... Man: Is, your uh, is your wife a sport, ay? Squire: Um, she likes sport, yes! Man: I bet she does, I bet she does! Squire: As a matter of fact she's very fond of cricket. Man: 'Oo isn't? Likes games, eh? Knew she would. Likes games, eh? She's been around a bit, been around? Squire: She has traveled, yes. She's from Scarsdale. (pause) Man: SAY NO MORE!! Man: Scarsdale, saynomore, saynomore, saynomore, squire! Squire: I wasn't going to! Man: Oh! Well, never mind. Dib dib? Is your uh, is your wife interested in....photography, ay? "Photographs, ay", he asked him knowlingly? Squire: Photography? Man: Snap snap, grin grin, wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more? Squire: Holiday snaps, eh? Man: They could be, they could be taken on holiday. Candid, you know, CANDID photography? Squire: No, no I'm afraid we don't have a camera. Man: Oh. (leeringly) Still, mooooooh, ay? Mwoohohohohoo, ay? Hohohohohoho, ay? Squire: Look... are you insinuating something? Man: Oh, no, no, no...yes. Squire: Well? Man: Well, you're a man of the world, squire. Squire: Yes... Man: I mean, you've been around a bit, you know, like, you've, uh.... You've "done it".... Squire: What do you mean? Man: Well, I mean like,....you've SLEPT, with a lady.... Squire: Yes.... Man: What's it like?
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Post by PinkFloyd on Sept 25, 2011 20:01:22 GMT
Ah! didn't realise it was only 3ch... in that case I think my next one will be the Mad German one (das panzer copter).... I mean three foot is no use if you can't "bank" it is it? Banking is essential when you're playing with your chopper.... forward, back, up, down, left, right and "bank".... that's where I have been going wrong all my life, I have never learn't how to "bank" (or have not knowingly banked).... I tend to pull out fast when I feel the need to bank
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Post by PinkFloyd on Sept 25, 2011 20:07:42 GMT
Whoops... the Mad German is 3 channel too
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2011 20:09:18 GMT
Classic Monty!!
Hello madam, I'm interested in your single rotor. How much lift does it have. Can I bank her? I wonder how high I can get it. How many minutes can I get out of one charge? How long does it take to get it charged? What's the biggest battery you do? Do you mind if I use your titties as a remote control? Is it prone to vibrations?
Shit, I've crashed prematurely.
Ian
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Post by PinkFloyd on Sept 25, 2011 20:14:42 GMT
A premature ejection from the cockpit
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2011 21:38:24 GMT
Reality of 3 foot heli hits This could be you: Problem with the big 'uns is having the bottle to send it up to control it. They need a good push to get them up and possible some left/right yaw to stop the spinning, so just getting them off the ground is a killer until you give it a good burst of power so that it goes right up in the sky. Then it's a test of nerve. Nice to have a big 'un, but it's knowing what to do with it that counts. Ian
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