Progression in Heli Flying
Dec 24, 2011 13:35:40 GMT
Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2011 13:35:40 GMT
There is a kind of learning path in flying helis properly so that you don't hit everything in sight and keep breaking them:
a) Coaxials
Slow. Easy to hold. Indoors. Teaches you orientation and the controls without the sense of panic that you can get with single blades. Not easily broken because they're so light.
MCX and MCX2 - perfect for starting on.
b) If you like coaxials, you can just get bigger and bigger until they get pretty large and can be flown outside at a pinch. It has to be very calm.
They are all very stable and easy to fly because they are coaxials but are also pretty slow because of the same fact!!
CX 3
About a foot long. The blue one is how they come as standard and the white and blue one is one that I put together from a broken one that a friend gave me. Just shows you - anyone can repair them if I can. This one needed some engine parts and new body and rotors of course:
Standard CX3 on the right and my Frankenstein version on left:
Getting bigger still - the Big Lama is nice or the Sky Taxi. Still a coaxial and so stable in flight, but needs quite careful setup. Much more scary in the front room:
c) Single rotors are the next stage in flying skills and it's necessary perhaps to go back to small ones. The V2 is a good one to go for (which I don't have) but the msr was a cracker but is unfortunately no longer available, so the V2 is a better option.
msr:
d) Single rotor and bigger. Getting scary with regards to speed and stability now, the 120 sr. It's a foot and a half long and I can just fly it indoors in a big room.
e) I put this one after the 120 sr because it really flies more like a CP heli and isn't as easy to control as the 120 sr. It's fast and needs good skills to hold it inspite of its tiny size:
msr x
The whole lot so far:
a) Coaxials
Slow. Easy to hold. Indoors. Teaches you orientation and the controls without the sense of panic that you can get with single blades. Not easily broken because they're so light.
MCX and MCX2 - perfect for starting on.
b) If you like coaxials, you can just get bigger and bigger until they get pretty large and can be flown outside at a pinch. It has to be very calm.
They are all very stable and easy to fly because they are coaxials but are also pretty slow because of the same fact!!
CX 3
About a foot long. The blue one is how they come as standard and the white and blue one is one that I put together from a broken one that a friend gave me. Just shows you - anyone can repair them if I can. This one needed some engine parts and new body and rotors of course:
Standard CX3 on the right and my Frankenstein version on left:
Getting bigger still - the Big Lama is nice or the Sky Taxi. Still a coaxial and so stable in flight, but needs quite careful setup. Much more scary in the front room:
c) Single rotors are the next stage in flying skills and it's necessary perhaps to go back to small ones. The V2 is a good one to go for (which I don't have) but the msr was a cracker but is unfortunately no longer available, so the V2 is a better option.
msr:
d) Single rotor and bigger. Getting scary with regards to speed and stability now, the 120 sr. It's a foot and a half long and I can just fly it indoors in a big room.
e) I put this one after the 120 sr because it really flies more like a CP heli and isn't as easy to control as the 120 sr. It's fast and needs good skills to hold it inspite of its tiny size:
msr x
The whole lot so far: