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Post by PinkFloyd on Oct 22, 2011 11:11:36 GMT
Sam flying his Nine Eagles Solo Pro V2 upside down
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2011 11:20:21 GMT
Presumably, turned the blades round? It's not possible to flip 'em!!
I've been comparing this with the MSR and imo, Mike, the remote control is a little bit coarse, so a touch on forward for instance and it dips quite a lot and shoots off.
My feeling is that the V2 would be a lot better outside. Indoors, the room just doesn't feel big enough for it. In fact, the 120 SR feels similar in that the room size seems small.
When the weather calms down here, I'm going to take it out and try it. I've a feeling that it'll cope a lot better than the MSR with breezes.
Indoors, I find it a bit wild.
Those blasted skids are a pain. I've done another one in. They seriously need to look at the quality of them. They're too thin and after a heavy landing, they seem to collapse.
In fact, if I continue to fly this one, I may well buy a load of those blasted skids. I wonder if there is an alternative for it?
It seems the weakest part of the heli.
Ian
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Post by PinkFloyd on Oct 22, 2011 11:36:31 GMT
My one arrive back yesterday from Buzz flyer and the miserable gits have only replaced the tail motor.... the canopy was cracked due to crashing (as a result of the faulty tail motor) and they didn't even replace it!.... sent it back with a damned crack in it "and" a dent in the windscreen / cockpit window thang.
I haven't been able to fly it / test it yet (thanks to this friggin' chest infection) but will hopefully manage a few flights later on.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2011 12:09:57 GMT
My one arrive back yesterday from Buzz flyer and the miserable gits have only replaced the tail motor.... the canopy was cracked due to crashing (as a result of the faulty tail motor) and they didn't even replace it!.... sent it back with a damned crack in it "and" a dent in the windscreen / cockpit window thang. I haven't been able to fly it / test it yet (thanks to this friggin' chest infection) but will hopefully manage a few flights later on. Oh, I would have thought that the whole thing would have been replaced. They sell them as BNF. Especially as the crash was due to the tail rotor as well. Imagine the same happening with the Honey Bee!!!! It would have broken into pieces at that size. I prefer the MSR myself. It's more refined in flight and that controller for the V2 is a bit crude. If you trim it one stop, nothing much happens and then go another and suddenly it kicks in on the heli and you see it actually twitch. The trimming is a bit coarse, which doesn't help so for me, it's a fun heli, but difficult to control smoothly indoors. If I were to recommend something to a newbie, I think I'd be happier steering them to MSR myself. Better/smoother flight. I'll try outside when the weather allows. That's where the crude trimming might not be so noticeable. It also has a lot of power and can fight the breezes better. The E-Flite series is expensive, I guess, but I have to admit, I do really like the upgrade path that they offer. They have thought it out well imo and if you want to pregress, they have judged the jumps really well. In all honesty, I don't think I would have flown anything the size of the 120 SR but because of my experience with the MCX2 followed by the MSR, it feels right to me and I've even flown it in the garden already. Not too far, but I'm getting there. If I get a good grip of this, I'll push on to the biggie. Changing to another brand/type kind of makes you learn the characteristics of its flight roughly, but you learn different movements, whereas the Blades are actually consistent. It is giving me confidence with the bigger helis actually. I've also learned that it's really important to get the take off and landing under control before anything else. Once it's up, you have space so you're relatively safe so you can fly all over the place. The accidents are more likely to happen on the way up and down so I do nothing but work at smoothing that out first. It's more critical with the bigger ones. At least for the V2, spares are easily available, Mike and not too expensive. Did you have to send the whole heli only to have the motor replaced by them? You could have done that yourself. Ian
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Post by PinkFloyd on Oct 22, 2011 12:29:54 GMT
Yes. I will be getting onto them on Monday... £80 is actually a lot of money for a bit of flying plastic and I don't expect them to return a faulty helicopter with the same damaged canopy... just seems poor to me.
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