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    Second heli?

    Hey, guys. I'm a fairly novice RC-heli pilot. A few years back I got a Walkera 5#6 that I flown for hours on end. I had some problems with the servos glitching, which actually was the only reason I ended up having to repair the thing. When I was going to have to upgrade my servo for the thrid time, I shelfed it. Now it's time to get a new chopper.

    I'm quite the real simulator geek (MS Flight Sim, DCS: Black Shark, those kind of things, always had a love for choppers, got trackIR and some nice controllers for it), so I know my way around real choppers, and with this comes what I want out of an RC-chopper:

    I want a stable indoor heli that might survive going out on a calm day every now and then - but the idea is to get a good indoor heli (maybe I'll get properly bitten at some point and get a larger one for outside use). I love realistic flights, so I'm in awe if I can just steadily glide through my house and land on a book in the kitchen, which I've done many times with my Walkera. I don't think speed = fun, I love percise movements and seeing a chopper come in for landing, flaring and landing in a perfect hover on a coin.

    So, yeah. What should I get? I'm past co-axis unless you say otherwise, and I've been looking at the Buzz Fly sub-mini series. Buzz Fly BE. Or the Buzz Fly 3DS (I'm not really sure if I need a 3D chopper for indoor flight, though). The trasmitter that comes with this is a pretty expensive one, though, so I'm wondering if it would be a possible investment, as in, could it be used with future choppers, in case?

    Or is there something else I should be considering?
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    Have a look at the below, Its a Flasher 250, same size as a Trex250, uses the same spares to really cheap to keep in the air. Would handle far better and far more pricisely than the "cheapy" indoor orientated helis but would also be able to fly outside.

    Flasher 250 CF combo Deals Trex 250 Comparable

    At £100 quid bar a transmitter you'd be hard pushed to find anything better for the money in my opinion.

    Ian

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    • #3
      The TX that comes with the buzz helis is not all that good, it does some nice features but it seems even though it uses spectum tech it will not use spectrum rx's so your limted.

      Check this tread from this forum about the TX:

      http://www.rcheliaddict.co.uk/transm...flyer-bf8.html

      The flasher 250 is a good choice as above but I would get either a DX6I or but would suggest the DX7 if you have the funds.
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      • #4
        A lot depends on what you mean by Indoor.

        There's Indoor : In House and then there's Indoor : Sports Hall .

        A TRex 250 with 460mm dia main rotor flailing round in a living room seems a bit risky to me.
        A novel enough way of turning furniture into wood chippings I suppose.
        Last edited by Kozmyk; 05-07-2010, 12:20 PM. Reason: diameter
        Koz
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        Logo 400, TRex 450SEv2, Blade 400, mSR, mCX, HK450(build), DX7, Phoenix Simstick ..... AXN Clouds Fly, Night Vapor, HC Mosquito
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        • #5
          A blade MSR or Hirobo Quark would come to mind. On our local heli events we regularly clown around with those when those when not completely sober anymore. And then some Quark-vs-Quark air battle. Bring enough spares.

          A T-Rex 250 or GAUI 200 is nothing I'd fly in the house (saying that, I learned on the EP 200 in my living room myself). Hover at knee height, maybe. If you have never seen one life: Those little flying buzzsaws start to look much less cute once they're running at 4000 RPM

          I know the Walkera 4#3 pretty well, which used to be a BuzzFly. Not recommended.
          Last edited by GravityKills; 05-07-2010, 12:52 PM.
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          • #6
            Originally posted by Kozmyk View Post
            A lot depends on what you mean by Indoor.

            There's Indoor : In House and then there's Indoor : Sports Hall .

            A TRex 250 with 460mm dia main rotor flailing round in a living room seems a bit risky to me.
            A novel enough way of turning furniture into wood chippings I suppose.

            LOL ask 1Chris about that. Funny how even the smallest blades will hack up mohogany.......
            Last edited by ddracer; 05-07-2010, 01:08 PM.
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            • #7
              I've been quite tempted by the Walkera 4G6S.
              258mm/10" main rotor dia, CP AND 3-way Gyro.
              That gyro makes it a lot more stable than the previous model 4G6 12".

              http://www.rcheliaddict.co.uk/main-d...tml#post496136

              Downside is having to have a dedicated Tx (2801Pro) to fly it.
              Shame they don't do a Spektrum compatible version. 8^(
              Koz
              Total Relative noob
              Logo 400, TRex 450SEv2, Blade 400, mSR, mCX, HK450(build), DX7, Phoenix Simstick ..... AXN Clouds Fly, Night Vapor, HC Mosquito
              I've found a way to halt reckless heli spending ... Go Broke.

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              • #8
                Seems like the e-Flite Blade mSR is going to be the chopper for me. I'm not even knee-deep in the hobby, but I might be one day. Oh, and the indoor use we're talking is inside the house. Maybe flying a bit around in the backyard on calm days. The mSR should cover that.

                When I was still looking at the BuzzFly 3DS I wanted a sophisticated, but small chopper. It seems it's a bit pointless to have such a small 3D chopper. Since the RTF is barely more expensive than the BNF, I'm thinking of starting off with that, then maybe expanding to a DX6i one day.

                EDIT: Just bought it with 2 extra batteries (to a total of 4). Looking forward to getting it ;D
                Last edited by Articate; 05-07-2010, 03:47 PM.

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