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Hi,
This is my first post to this forum and I'm quite new to heli flight etc :-)
First a bit of background...
I've been interested in the idea of flying RC helicopters for a few years now and about 6 months ago I bought an RTF Blade coaxial with a bunch of lipos. I had lots of fun flying it about my living room for a few months but very quickly found the whole experience a bit limiting. I could fly the thing all day long and not crash it, including doing relatively quick figure 8's in forward and reverse, some nose in flight, nose in funnels (sort of) and anything else I could make it do. If things got really out of shape, 80% of the time I could catch it and save my walls. All this became a bit boring as it wasn't much of a challenge anymore, it just wasn't as much fun as it was when I started out so I ordered a DX6i and a BNF Blade MSRX. What a difference (and a handfull)! It was like trying to control a demented wasp. It was fast, responsive and quite a challenge. At first I concentrated on just getting it airborne and catching it in a hover and keeping it there. I got through a few blade grips, blades and even managed to dislodge the motor after one particularly heavy crash but things got better and I ventured into forward flight using right rudder to navigate the wasp around my room. I found left rudder to cause pretty drastic backwards flight needing a LOT of correction to be controllable, to be fair right rudder causes some forward flight but its definately more controllable. I've put these down to characteristics of the heli and just got on with flying the thing and catching it before things got out of shape. I'm now at the stage where I can fly the MSRX quite energetically around my living room while maintaining good control. I've got to the point where I'm confident to chuck it about using lots of control input travel and throttle to fly the thing quickly but can use very subtle inputs to fly it in a slow and controlled fashion also. When things get out of shape I can catch it quickly, often using additional throttle to give me the power I need to change it's direction quickly. If I'm honest, I still find left piros hard to control but I can do fast right piros and nose in funnels without it getting out of shape. Partly because of the left rudder issues I know I've not done enough nose in practice. I hope this comment makes sense but I don't tend to think as much about keeping it under control any more, just I mix rudder, throttle and cyclic inputs to fly it where I want as fast as I have space. The left rudder issues are definately holding me back when it comes to nose in hovers though.
So, my question is simply is the MSRX holding me back? Is it time for me to think about making the leap to a CP heli? If so, which would be a good step up from my demonic little MSRX?
To be clear all of my flying so far has all been indoors. I would like to venture into outdoor flight as well, but I do enjoy flying indoors and will probably always want to.
Many thanks
Martyn
This is my first post to this forum and I'm quite new to heli flight etc :-)
First a bit of background...
I've been interested in the idea of flying RC helicopters for a few years now and about 6 months ago I bought an RTF Blade coaxial with a bunch of lipos. I had lots of fun flying it about my living room for a few months but very quickly found the whole experience a bit limiting. I could fly the thing all day long and not crash it, including doing relatively quick figure 8's in forward and reverse, some nose in flight, nose in funnels (sort of) and anything else I could make it do. If things got really out of shape, 80% of the time I could catch it and save my walls. All this became a bit boring as it wasn't much of a challenge anymore, it just wasn't as much fun as it was when I started out so I ordered a DX6i and a BNF Blade MSRX. What a difference (and a handfull)! It was like trying to control a demented wasp. It was fast, responsive and quite a challenge. At first I concentrated on just getting it airborne and catching it in a hover and keeping it there. I got through a few blade grips, blades and even managed to dislodge the motor after one particularly heavy crash but things got better and I ventured into forward flight using right rudder to navigate the wasp around my room. I found left rudder to cause pretty drastic backwards flight needing a LOT of correction to be controllable, to be fair right rudder causes some forward flight but its definately more controllable. I've put these down to characteristics of the heli and just got on with flying the thing and catching it before things got out of shape. I'm now at the stage where I can fly the MSRX quite energetically around my living room while maintaining good control. I've got to the point where I'm confident to chuck it about using lots of control input travel and throttle to fly the thing quickly but can use very subtle inputs to fly it in a slow and controlled fashion also. When things get out of shape I can catch it quickly, often using additional throttle to give me the power I need to change it's direction quickly. If I'm honest, I still find left piros hard to control but I can do fast right piros and nose in funnels without it getting out of shape. Partly because of the left rudder issues I know I've not done enough nose in practice. I hope this comment makes sense but I don't tend to think as much about keeping it under control any more, just I mix rudder, throttle and cyclic inputs to fly it where I want as fast as I have space. The left rudder issues are definately holding me back when it comes to nose in hovers though.
So, my question is simply is the MSRX holding me back? Is it time for me to think about making the leap to a CP heli? If so, which would be a good step up from my demonic little MSRX?
To be clear all of my flying so far has all been indoors. I would like to venture into outdoor flight as well, but I do enjoy flying indoors and will probably always want to.
Many thanks
Martyn
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