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Post by cyclicpete on Jan 30, 2013 21:05:05 GMT
Hi All, I'm new here so go easy ! My Dad (Wadiaman) pointed me over here as my interest in all things headphones has been somewhat re-kindled recently, after digging out my old Senn HD 565 Ovations and connecting them to my X-cans V1 (modded by my dad !) and WOW !! Was surprised to see an RC section here as I'm an RC Heli nut myself, flying everything from my little mCPX through my Blade 450 and up to my Beloved Big T-Rex 600. Will be happy to help with any Heli related questions ! Cheers, Pete
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Post by tim52 on Jan 30, 2013 22:54:32 GMT
Hi & welcome to the forum, tell your dad the modded x can v2 i bought off him last year gets better everyday , i`ve paired it with a X Dac , (highly recommended) . regards, tim Blackburn Lancashire
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Post by cyclicpete on Jan 31, 2013 15:45:16 GMT
Hi Tim. Glad your pleased with the amp. My dad is quite the whizz with the old soldering iron !! He is about to do some more upgrades on my x can v1 soon. Cant wait !
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Post by PinkFloyd on Jan 31, 2013 19:51:47 GMT
Hi Pete, Welcome to the forum All the best, Mike.
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Post by cyclicpete on Jan 31, 2013 19:58:23 GMT
Cheers Mike, I was pleased to see plenty of Pink Floyd references here too. I am a HUGE fan ! Careful with those cans , Eugene !!
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Post by PinkFloyd on Jan 31, 2013 20:10:51 GMT
You may also get a rendition of "don't you want me baby?" from one of our resident organists sometime soon...... don't be alarmed, it's just the way he is What copters are you flying at the moment? I haven't had any stick time since I broke up with my GF.... been down and low man..... they're sitting there gathering dust..... I need an injection of life, a reason to live, a licence to FLY! Can you inject that pace back into my soul?
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Post by cyclicpete on Jan 31, 2013 22:25:46 GMT
Dude, I've been there too. And its horrible. But I believe everything happens for a reason. Your time will come. Have faith. Pick up your transmitter and get those Heli's back in the air. And good things will happen when you least expect it.
I'm currently flitting between my Blade 450 and my big boy, my T-Rex 600 ESP (still scares the cr@p out of me !) I've just learned to fly inverted, so practicing on the 450 then taking the stuff I am confident with onto the 600. Pulling a big loop the loop with the 600 for the first time made my legs shake !! If you are ever in the North- West at the weekend you would be more than welcome at our flying club. We have all abilities there and all are great guys. And a handful will blow your socks off with their 3D skills !!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2013 19:52:26 GMT
Hi Pete. I'd been flying cheap little helis for quite a long time, when Mike here came out with the Blade MCX which I really liked a lot. I was over in Guernsey and I took the collection of cheap infa red types. I flew one over the swimming pool trying to be a bit flash, and it skiimed along the surface and then I though, I'll fly it over to the other side and back. As it got right out to the middle of the swimming pool, the sun cam out and it dived, suddenly becoming a submarine. It went in the deep end so I just dived in and got it, put it on a radiator and flew it the next day!!! When I came back home, I got an MCX which I really liked and rapidly got a taste for the Blades in particular. I just liked their smoothness and reliability. Soon moved to MSR and the MSRx which I really like. I also tried the CX3 which was lovely to fly and then I rebuilt a CX3 from old bits that someone gave me. Went bigger with the co-ax types to the Sky Taxi. I really liked that one a lot. It was quite big and a bit flaky in very low wind but I set that up a helluva long way. I'd started to lose the little MSRx in the sky so having the bigger one gave me freedom to fly out in the garden high up. I have a big garden. I sent the Sky Taxi all over the place - at times, frighteningly high but loved that machine to bit. Eventually it had a fit in the sky and came down from a great height!! I got a Honey Bee. Started with it in my front room - quite a big room!! Got it off the ground easily so I took it out into the garden. Got it up in the air when the rear motor stopped and it was spinning like a looney in the air. I actually got it down in one piece and the shop I'd bought it from took it back. That kind of scared me with the slightly bigger ones so I went down to the MCPx and learned a bit about CP flight. Loved it. Then crashed it, although I had been flying it quite a long time. My crashes were quite spectacular and in this case, I couldn't get it to fly again without the 'MCPx' wobble so I left it and moved on to quads. I fly the MQX a lot. A really good flyer and dead easy and then I found a cheap quad that it stunning for the money - The Twister. For price, that quad is amazing and I flip it all over the place and just have a lot of fun with it. My gardener had a home made heli that was 6 foot long. Bloody ridiculous, but it flew. He only had the nerve to hover it at about ten feet and then bring it down though. I met a guy who invited me to his flying club and showed me how to fly a 450. He had his transmitter connected to mine and I took off with his help and managed to hold it. He then said try flying higher and further so I took it up and flew it around and managed to land it all in one piece. He then turned to me and said that I was flying it and he wasn't doing anything. It was then I realised a lot of it was in the head. Getting over the fear of those blades spinning like a banshee and the sheer speed that a 450 can go at. I can now fly a 450 although I don't have one. (I can fly a six footer too!! but the gardener ruins his trousers ) Something stops me buying a heli at that price with the high possibility of pilot error and danger involved in flying the bigger ones. Let alone the expense of fixing them. Maybe one day I'll get a big 'un. I am tempted to get something bigger than a 450 but the wife just thinks I'm mental, sending £300 or £400 pieces of plastic around in the air. A proper biggie is also 'bigger' money!!!!! The potential damage for a flying mini car coming down is massive so I am a bit nervous about it. I think Ideally, I'd like a scale model that is a proper big 'un. I love the way they fly and look so realistic up there. I also fancy flying some aeroplanes now. But scale models.
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Post by PinkFloyd on Feb 1, 2013 20:19:36 GMT
Let me know if you ever make it to "commercial pilot"....... I'll take the bus
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2013 21:38:29 GMT
Draw a big 'H' on the field by your house and get the kettle on when you see a big red chopper ........
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Post by cyclicpete on Feb 4, 2013 19:03:54 GMT
Wow, seems like there are a few Heli-nuts here.
Hey Rabbit, glad to hear you are enjoying the Blade Helicopters. I'm a big fan too. They taught me a lot...... in fact everything ! I started with an mSR, then a 120 SR, then my first CP the 'SR' (STRANGE Heli !) then onto the 450 3D. I still have them all but only really fly the 450 now. Its my test bed for new moves, so if (when!) things go wrong, the repair bill ain't too bad ! An average crash on my 450 costs about £40 to £50, whereas the same crash on my big 600 would cost... errrrr.... LOTS !!!
I'm glad to see Blade getting taken a bit more seriously now too. A lot of guys on the Heli forums I frequent look down their nose at blade as 'toys'. But I love my 450 despite its plastic (non carbon fibre!) frame !! And have you seen Blades new 500X and 550 ?? All I can say is WOW ! VERY nice indeed !
Ive not flown an mSRX yet but do like the look of them. Although getting ANOTHER heli past my wife and into the house would not be easy !! I do like the quads too. The mQX looks cool. A guy at our club has a hand built (from scratch!) quad which is awesome.
Sounds like you have been bitten by the bug like me ! Plus you will find, as I did, as the Helicopters get bigger, they actually get easier to fly. My 450 scared the HELL out of me the first time I spooled it up, but then as soon as I got it up in the air I was really pleasantly surprised ! And as for the 600.... SCARY AS HELL !! But SO STABLE compared to the 450. A real pleasure to fly. Plus I'm hoping to go flybarless with it soon to make it even more stable. But I would certainly say if you can fly a 450, you would have no problem flying a 600 (or 700 for that matter) And , the bigger the Heli, the less it is bothered by the wind, which is nice. My 600 will sit in a lovely stable hover in 25 mph winds !
I really love the "Scale" Helis too. A guy at our club has a 600 size heli fitted with a beautifully detailed Hughes 500 fuselage, and he even flies it in a proper "scale" fashion... a Real pleasure to watch.
I think the best piece of advice I would offer is to buy the Phoenix flight sim for your computer, and practice .... A LOT ! Phoenix is the sole reason I have been able to get my Helis inverted recently. It is a fantastic sim and SO REALISTIC. Worth every penny.
Anyway, I think I just forgot this is a HiFi forum, and not a Heli forum !!!! So to finish on a more appropriate note, I have just ordered a pair of Denon AH D2000 cans, after hearing my Dads ones and being VERY impressed. I then read the thread here on them, including many great, informative posts from yourself, and decided I Had to have a pair !! Should be here in a few days. Excited !!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2013 20:06:33 GMT
Pete, where did you get the D2000? They're hard to find new. Or is it second hand?
I've been flying little toy helis for quite a long time. I'm a big kid. I first saw them in the USA and thought no way would I get a big 'un off the ground without panic attacks so I stuck with little ones for quite a long time.
Then Mike here on RG came up with the MCx which I tried and thought was way superior to my old ones, so I gave them all away and started getting more serious with other little ones.
They are jittery. My favourite little one is the MSRx. Loads of guys in the USA slated it something chronic because they couldn't get an instant flight out of it without crashing. The notorious left turn was too much for many of them and they whined about it being a 'flawed' heli.
I persevered and for a long time just worked in very small steps with it. Especially on the dread left turn where it tends to fall inwards and backwards. You have to really work the cyclic to hold it. I literally became obsessed with getting the left turn right and once I had that, I took it out and flew it high and fast. (Safer up there)
Got a real treat. It's fast and copes with small gusts of wind way better than the MSR. Once I had it in open air, I started to throw it around a lot more since there's nothing to hit up there and I had it diving all over the place. I can even get it to spin and let it partially go out of control to recover before it comes down. Great fun.
The worst thing are the ball joints that the dog bones connect to. They actually wear out quite easily if you give it some hard flying. I know you can use the Rakon heads, but I found that to be not really as good as stock tbh. I went back to cheap plastic.
The gardener has been interested in helis for a long time and he built one himself. He's a big DIY'er, welder, electrician and local nutter. He brought this model in that he'd bought; running on fuel and started the motor. It's just about 6 foot and is a scale model. It's really funny because the blades kind of start up really slowly and build up speed, so you get this sense of fear and anticipation as it starts up.
He doesn't have the nerve to take it off the ground too far and was basically holding it just above head height and moving it inch by inch and coming down so that he can wipe his hands. He asked me if I wanted to fly it so I thought blow it - I will.
The anticipation on the build up of the props is unbelievable. They were going round very fast (and noisy) but once you commit to leave the ground, it is, as you say, SO stable. I'm so used to the squirrel behaviour of the little rockets that this felt slow to me. (I was very slow with the controls) I then sent it up a bit further and around the garden and back. Very slowly, but it was a fantastic feeling and coming down so slowly too. Little ones don't do that so well.
I must admit, I would like a big fella myself, but the cost is just way over the top and the thought of a crash terrifies me. (and the gardener - even though he built it)
I loved flying the old coax - Sky Taxi but it was too affected by air current. I was sending it up a long way and the current up there were far stronger than down on the ground so I often sent it up - it flew away (like the wind) - I'd lower it a long way off to get it back and send it back up again. Loved that until it was really starting to wear out dangerously. Things were giving out and I didn't like the idea of it coming down on something, so I retired it.
I also have a Blade 120SR. Trouble is, it's hopeless in wind. I cut the length of the props and it's a bit better but a sniff of wind and it lifts and disappears. It also has a problem that you can get with the heli twisting round to turn on fast forward flight - basically because one prop is going into the wind and the other away. result is that it tries to turn on fast flight, so you end up trying to hold it to keep it straight.
The 450 is lovely. I was bought some lessons to fly one by the wife who knows how nuts I am about helis. I'd like to get one but £40 per repair ......
The lessons were a great confidence booster and I think a good idea in order to understand more about how they fly.
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Post by cyclicpete on Feb 5, 2013 21:11:41 GMT
Managed to find a new pair of D2000's on ebay, and got them for £175, so pretty pleased with that. There are hardly any of them around either so hard enough to find a pair for sale, let alone a new pair. Really can't wait to get them on my noggin, plus my Dad is doing some more mods to my X-cans tomorrow so hopefully it should all come together and give some sweet results I have a lot of time for the Blade 120SR. It probably taught me the most about orientations of any heli. True, they are not great in the wind but can still be loads of fun. I don't use mine much now but I just can't bring myself to sell it ! Its a special little heli to me ! You are right about the "brown trouser" factor on the bigger Helis. The sound of a 450 spooling up after being used to my little 300 was terrifying !! Then when I first got my 600, I spooled it up for the first time in my Dads garden, and found myself starting to pace backwards, away from it as it got louder and louder !! I'm a bit more used to it now, but some sounds still make me jump... one of the better pilots at our club likes to pull huge tail slides down from about 100 feet and pick up some serious speed into backwards flight about 6 feet from the floor, then SMASH the pitch and cyclic together making his 700 leap upwards at the speed of light with a brain-shattering "THWAP" from the blades as it does so !! Totally incredible sound ! Makes me jump every time !! It sounds to me like you would get on well with a 450 ! The Blade 450 3D can be had for a pretty good price now as the 450X is now out too. If you got the Phoenix Sim and flew the Blade 450 on there, you would be amazed at just how accurate the sim is to the real 4503D, as is the same with all the other Helis on Phoenix. So plenty of practice on the sim would yield excellent results at the flying field, and help you avoid those nasty interfaces with mother earth ! And if you have had the guts to fly your gardeners big fella, then you would get used to the 450 no problem at all (No I'm not a "Heli-Pusher" ...... Honest !!!! )
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2013 21:52:15 GMT
(No I'm not a "Heli-Pusher" ...... Honest !!!! ) Sure!!! I have thought about the 450x and am very tempted. I have the space to fly it but money/wives/holidays etc ....
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Post by cyclicpete on Feb 6, 2013 13:21:21 GMT
450X is a sweet Heli. Very agile and nimble. Maybe a bit of a handful for a first 450. Could probably be tamed down a bit though.
The 450 3d is a bit more docile and easy to manage. Perfect for a first 450 imho.
Plus parts are cheaper than the Align 450 parts
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