New to forum - hi, hope you lot are nice lol

[extreme3d]

Hi Mate, I fly at a field approx 20mins from you over in harlington near Heathrow. Great club with a lot of heli flyers. I have pm'd you all the details any questions please ask.

regards

Paul

[jboweruk]

Hi mate, and welcome to a warm and friendly place.

If I may offer my 2 cents of experience, as I was a noob just a couple of months ago when I joined:

I would seriously advise a coax to start with, a 450 class heli covers a lot of ground real quick, and is not going to be cheap when you crash, and I mean WHEN you crash, as sure as a nose on your face you will.

So a coax will give you valuable experience, and as has been said is a long term investment, as British weather being what it is you won't always get to fly outdoors, so it will give you some practice indoors. In the meantime fly anything and everything on the sim. I would say the Blade CX2 as a first heli for several reasons:
1/ it's stable as it gets, lovely little heli.
2/ it's got 2.4Ghz tx/rx already on.
3/ relates to point 2 really, later on if you get a Blade 400 you can bind the same tranny to your little CX2 and fly both on the same tranny (not at the same time of course).

I bought a DX6i (which is the tx that comes with the Blade 400) and so glad I did, as now I'm practicing on Phoenix with the Blade and correct tx, alongside Ron (Boggy)'s settings for that heli. I know you want to jump in and fly a 400 class, but jumping from a 2 channel you will likely injure yourself at worst or at best wreck your new baby. I came up from 3 channels and still found it quite a learning curve. It's worth having the coax and sitting on the money for something better till you have the experience to go with it, there's a lot more to do and think about maintainance wise with the bigger helis (more moving parts and higher speeds). A coax is a good place to learn some of the skills like blade tracking and setting the swash plate up correctly. Not to mention re-building it after you've bent the shaft which is also almost inevitable in the early stages.

Whatever you do, good luck and enjoy yourself.

[GhostlyRock]

Remember....

Its easy to make a small fortune by flying Helis.

You start with a large one!

[mattydred]

here is a very good blade cx2 that you should seriously consider for your first heli.
for your £200 you can have the cx2 + the phoenix sim.

http://www.rcheliaddict.co.uk/showthread.php?t=11385

matty

a cx2 would spend alot more time in the air than a blade 400 because the 400 will be in bits awaiting parts 90% of the time

[mattydred]

Hi mate, and welcome to a warm and friendly place.

If I may offer my 2 cents of experience, as I was a noob just a couple of months ago when I joined:

I would seriously advise a coax to start with, a 450 class heli covers a lot of ground real quick, and is not going to be cheap when you crash, and I mean WHEN you crash, as sure as a nose on your face you will.

So a coax will give you valuable experience, and as has been said is a long term investment, as British weather being what it is you won't always get to fly outdoors, so it will give you some practice indoors. In the meantime fly anything and everything on the sim. I would say the Blade CX2 as a first heli for several reasons:
1/ it's stable as it gets, lovely little heli.
2/ it's got 2.4Ghz tx/rx already on.
3/ relates to point 2 really, later on if you get a Blade 400 you can bind the same tranny to your little CX2 and fly both on the same tranny (not at the same time of course).

I bought a DX6i (which is the tx that comes with the Blade 400) and so glad I did, as now I'm practicing on Phoenix with the Blade and correct tx, alongside Ron (Boggy)'s settings for that heli. I know you want to jump in and fly a 400 class, but jumping from a 2 channel you will likely injure yourself at worst or at best wreck your new baby. I came up from 3 channels and still found it quite a learning curve. It's worth having the coax and sitting on the money for something better till you have the experience to go with it, there's a lot more to do and think about maintainance wise with the bigger helis (more moving parts and higher speeds). A coax is a good place to learn some of the skills like blade tracking and setting the swash plate up correctly. Not to mention re-building it after you've bent the shaft which is also almost inevitable in the early stages.

Whatever you do, good luck and enjoy yourself.

your 2 cents of experience are spot on

matty

[fatmantom]

turns out theres one in the village next to me - well thats pretty convenient!

you've got it made mate!!

full access to village hall, and a club round the cornor from you!

you can have a go on my coax to be honest mate! all my friends do! lol will have to wait untill after my exams untill i can do anything though!

cheers,

[inpar]

With your taste in cars I'd take all the advice you can get


Made me smile

inpar

[cambs flyer]

With your taste in cars I'd take all the advice you can get


Made me smile

inpar

Ha!

[V70R]

Ha!

Listen guys that car is fine classic - won the British Touring Cars 2 years running, its not a BMW or Merc, its 330BHP, safe, practical oh i did i mention it was gay gold lol

Is there a thread on the site about what you lot drive then? If not ill put one up and we'll see what appears

[Boggy]

http://www.rcheliaddict.co.uk/showth...t+do+you+drive

we just need the tee shirts!

[cambs flyer]

Listen guys that car is fine classic - won the British Touring Cars 2 years running, its not a BMW or Merc, its 330BHP, safe, practical oh i did i mention it was gay gold lol

Is there a thread on the site about what you lot drive then? If not ill put one up and we'll see what appears

Bloody cheek, I was only laughing at the comments above.

[cambs flyer]

All together now... Y....M....C....A

[LipolyGone]

Im actually starting to warm to you guys now lol - when does the rude kick in then? hours, days???

When you start telling everyone how good your lipos are
By the way welcome.
Martin

[Tim Procter]

When you start telling everyone how good your lipos are
By the way welcome.
Martin

Classic Martin, Spot-on..

[cambs flyer]

Do I detect a slight dig here at all?