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Morning All
just thought I would introduce myself to the forum and take this opportunity to say thank you to you all for helping make my first flight successful (mainly!) and fun!
I have been looking around various forums and online shops trying to decide which heli to buy since christmas time and finally settled on the Twister CP v2.1. So far it seems to be a good little heli and at a reasonable price.
I took your advice to get a simulator first and that has proven to be very useful! It was only a cheap one at £20 with a USB Tx but it works sufficiently well to get the idea and decide if I wanted to spend more money.
The next piece of advice I took can only be appreciated when you have a nice shiny new heli on the floor with rotors spinning away and you get a little heavy handed on the right stick. Get training gear!! Luckily I had and this saved me from flipping over and destroying the blades a fair few times last night!
The only other piece of advice, that I don't think I had read here, that I would offer to other newbies is don't practice with carbon fibre blades! My heli came with them so I just assumed they were fine. And for the first few minor bumps they were. Then they met the leg of a steel barstool
not too much damage but enough to chip the corner of the leading edge. Time to replace them with plastic ones!
Other than that I went through 2 batteries and managed to keep it relatively under control with a few minor hops of about 2 inches in the air. Just hoping for some calm days now to move outside and have a play
Cheers
Dunk
just thought I would introduce myself to the forum and take this opportunity to say thank you to you all for helping make my first flight successful (mainly!) and fun!
I have been looking around various forums and online shops trying to decide which heli to buy since christmas time and finally settled on the Twister CP v2.1. So far it seems to be a good little heli and at a reasonable price.
I took your advice to get a simulator first and that has proven to be very useful! It was only a cheap one at £20 with a USB Tx but it works sufficiently well to get the idea and decide if I wanted to spend more money.
The next piece of advice I took can only be appreciated when you have a nice shiny new heli on the floor with rotors spinning away and you get a little heavy handed on the right stick. Get training gear!! Luckily I had and this saved me from flipping over and destroying the blades a fair few times last night!
The only other piece of advice, that I don't think I had read here, that I would offer to other newbies is don't practice with carbon fibre blades! My heli came with them so I just assumed they were fine. And for the first few minor bumps they were. Then they met the leg of a steel barstool
not too much damage but enough to chip the corner of the leading edge. Time to replace them with plastic ones!Other than that I went through 2 batteries and managed to keep it relatively under control with a few minor hops of about 2 inches in the air. Just hoping for some calm days now to move outside and have a play
Cheers
Dunk
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