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Today I flew the same heli first with sportline funkey silver carbons and then with captain crash GLX v2 3D blades.
These are similar priced budget carbon blades for .50 helis. My heli is a 600n Pro with os50 hyper, CSM 720/BLS251 and 3xBLs451, align governor.
Both sets of blades balanced well without any necessary adjustment and no tracking adjustement was necessary when the blades were swapped.
I flew my rather restricted 3D repatoire with each blades which included so mildly aerobatic autorotation manoevres - rolling and flipping out of inverted.
Both blades are well capable of all monoevres with no worries of boom strikes etc even in really heavy negative reversals. The sportline are a little more flexible and a little noisier under load.
The GLX are a little sharper in their response, a little less damped and more suited to aggressive manoevres, though this is accompanied by them loading the motor a little heavier (the more sudden lift has to come from somewhere).
As a result it was easier not to kill the headspeed with the sportline blades flipping out of an inverted auto, and he GLX needed a more careful collective management.
My preference comes out for the Captain crash GLX, as it is a more responsive blade - though its a close run thing and both blade types are good value for money.
Previously I have flown maniac603 on the same heli but I beleive that these more expensive blades don't offer all that much more in terms of performance compared to these which are at least £10 less a pair. I am a firm beleiver in spending only on what makes a difference to the flying - and minimising the "cost fear" of crashing as much as possible.
Towards the end of the day I managed to tumble my heli along the grass after not getting all the way out of an inverted auto on the GLX blades. I was rather amazed to find that the only damage was a missing head link and a very slightly bent main shaft - the blades survived unmarked.
These are similar priced budget carbon blades for .50 helis. My heli is a 600n Pro with os50 hyper, CSM 720/BLS251 and 3xBLs451, align governor.
Both sets of blades balanced well without any necessary adjustment and no tracking adjustement was necessary when the blades were swapped.
I flew my rather restricted 3D repatoire with each blades which included so mildly aerobatic autorotation manoevres - rolling and flipping out of inverted.
Both blades are well capable of all monoevres with no worries of boom strikes etc even in really heavy negative reversals. The sportline are a little more flexible and a little noisier under load.
The GLX are a little sharper in their response, a little less damped and more suited to aggressive manoevres, though this is accompanied by them loading the motor a little heavier (the more sudden lift has to come from somewhere).
As a result it was easier not to kill the headspeed with the sportline blades flipping out of an inverted auto, and he GLX needed a more careful collective management.
My preference comes out for the Captain crash GLX, as it is a more responsive blade - though its a close run thing and both blade types are good value for money.
Previously I have flown maniac603 on the same heli but I beleive that these more expensive blades don't offer all that much more in terms of performance compared to these which are at least £10 less a pair. I am a firm beleiver in spending only on what makes a difference to the flying - and minimising the "cost fear" of crashing as much as possible.
Towards the end of the day I managed to tumble my heli along the grass after not getting all the way out of an inverted auto on the GLX blades. I was rather amazed to find that the only damage was a missing head link and a very slightly bent main shaft - the blades survived unmarked.
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