Thread: Beginners and New to Heli's ... Read this FIRST

Hi, Just read the beginners thread and it was very informative, so thanks for that. I think I'm gonna start of with a cheaper heli around the £100 mark and see how well I do with that.

Cheers

Andy

Hi, I am just starting out with helis as a self taught fixed wing pilot and firstly want to agree totally with ModelGuard.com; every hobby I have ever done I have found so called beginner outfits a hindrance but I havent got the money for his approach so have started with a pheonix sim and T rex 450 clone, but if I had the money, I'd have done it something like ModelGuard.

I took the CopterX out for the first time a couple of days ago having spent hours on the sim and suprise suprise I could basically fly the bird. I had a couple of heavy landings and have bent a few bits but it wasnt a disaster thanks largely to the fact it was RTF out of the box (must be, I am a total beginner with no body to help me and I flew it) and...... I had the sim.

I like the challenge of teaching myself but with the sim and all the resource on the web - not to mention a good model shop if I really got stuck - its not really self learning as it was if you taught yourself back in the 80's. My hat goes off to those flyers...