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Hi all, thanks for letting me join this forum. I will start at the beginning so you know where im coming from. Im sure most of you have heard this before many times. My Son bought me a 3 channel coaxial micro for Christmas which bought back a little spark I had years ago of wanting to fly RC helicopters. I know its only a toy and I know its nothing like flying Collective pitch 3d etc etc I have been told that a hundred times now, even quite rudely at times in other forums. All I used the coaxial for was to get used to orientation for tail in nose in practice and buzzing round the house, and did I fly it a lot, day in day out landing here there and everywhere. I then decided to buy a 3 channel VOLITATION 9053 from ebay for £49 to fly in the garden, it was a MUCH bigger toy, as expected I soon noticed that even in the slightest breeze I had to continually keep it nose in to the breeze just to stop it blowing away. Mind you I smashed this thing into the wall even at high speed (wind driven speed) so many times and it still kept going, so no disappointment there.
I don't have any clubs near me or anyone to help me so im on my own, apart from any help I can hopefully get from here.
Here is my problem, I then bought an evolution 180 (walkera 180d fixed pitch) and was I surprised that the rudder was on a different stick !! all my learning completely undone ! I had a clever plan I bought a 4ch Nano cx for £49 which had mode 2 controls, this thing was so so stable I could almost leave it hovering in the kitchen and make a cup of tea, BUT I crashed it on the first day and broke it because I used aileron instead of rudder at a crucial point due to 3ch habits and to top it off I cant get a new flybar for it as the whole world is out of stock :-(
My next move was to change the mode on the evolution 180 to the same as the 3 channel helis, nope I cant fly it, all the reviews say its virtually a hands off hover, not for me its all over the place even in a sports hall so no wind. it literally is a nightmare.
I have now decided to leave the helicopters alone for now and bought phoenix flight sim with a DX6i transmitter as I not only need to learn how to fly but also undo the habits picked up from the 3 channel helis, so I think im now on the right track.
What I would like to know is have I set phoenix up right, I intend to learn on a blade 450 when I am competent on the simulator, I could buy it now but I would be too tempted to try and fly it.
I have chosen the blade 450 from the settings and im simply doing hover training for just aileron for now. I don't know how to explain but I will try. I know coaxial will just sit there if you let go and I expect CP to be completely different BUT with say, a fixed pitch if you are moving sideways with the right stick to the right then let the stick back to the centre, although the heli will continue in the same direction from momentum, it will level out.
Now on a CP in phoenix its different, If I move right and then want to level the heli, I not only have to allow the stick back to the centre but actually go a bit the other way to sort of counter the previous command, does this make sense ? and is this what I should expect, I don't want to spend 6 months on a flight sim only to find its wrong :-(
Thanks for reading
Ritchie
I don't have any clubs near me or anyone to help me so im on my own, apart from any help I can hopefully get from here.
Here is my problem, I then bought an evolution 180 (walkera 180d fixed pitch) and was I surprised that the rudder was on a different stick !! all my learning completely undone ! I had a clever plan I bought a 4ch Nano cx for £49 which had mode 2 controls, this thing was so so stable I could almost leave it hovering in the kitchen and make a cup of tea, BUT I crashed it on the first day and broke it because I used aileron instead of rudder at a crucial point due to 3ch habits and to top it off I cant get a new flybar for it as the whole world is out of stock :-(
My next move was to change the mode on the evolution 180 to the same as the 3 channel helis, nope I cant fly it, all the reviews say its virtually a hands off hover, not for me its all over the place even in a sports hall so no wind. it literally is a nightmare.
I have now decided to leave the helicopters alone for now and bought phoenix flight sim with a DX6i transmitter as I not only need to learn how to fly but also undo the habits picked up from the 3 channel helis, so I think im now on the right track.
What I would like to know is have I set phoenix up right, I intend to learn on a blade 450 when I am competent on the simulator, I could buy it now but I would be too tempted to try and fly it.
I have chosen the blade 450 from the settings and im simply doing hover training for just aileron for now. I don't know how to explain but I will try. I know coaxial will just sit there if you let go and I expect CP to be completely different BUT with say, a fixed pitch if you are moving sideways with the right stick to the right then let the stick back to the centre, although the heli will continue in the same direction from momentum, it will level out.
Now on a CP in phoenix its different, If I move right and then want to level the heli, I not only have to allow the stick back to the centre but actually go a bit the other way to sort of counter the previous command, does this make sense ? and is this what I should expect, I don't want to spend 6 months on a flight sim only to find its wrong :-(
Thanks for reading
Ritchie
you also will notice once you advance a bit to hover will need non stop input (unless u dialed in helicopter almost perfect) and also in hover with wind on cp heli u need to keep adjusting the pitch 
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