Beginners and New to Heli's ... Read this FIRST

[Boggy]

thats more like it!!! a bin bag and a nappy will do you just fine, oh and a hankie for the tears.

first crash you'll smile and shrugg!
second you'll just shrugg
third you'll wince and shrugg
forth you'll wince
fifth you'll cry yer ****ing eyes out and wonder why you bother
sixth will be longer comming
seventh will be small
eighth will be just a heavy landing
ninth will be just like the first
and off we go again!!!

[Mike W]

Yup no insurance for crashing heli's ... Geez we wud all pay for that and then fly like loonies lol ... As for money than sense I dont drink alcohol so have to spend my money on something and this is as good as n e thing lol ... Well rc toys and computer bits lol ...

As Boggy says the more ya crash the more disheartened ya get lol ... So crash some more and enjoy it heheh e..... Theres always a light at the end of the tunnel lol

[Boggy]

they soon become second nature i can do them quite easily now! almost without thinking!!

[ApachePilotUK]

lmfao dear god. even after years of flying you still crash?

[Jamez]

oh, you never get over the crashing thing, they just become less frequent, but more spectacular.

[jboweruk]

The opinion on the sim is spot on though, 80 quid against the thousands my spectacular crashes, splashes and tree pruning would've cost me in real life is nothing.

Thanks for that advice guys, I don't think if I said that every day I could ever thank you all enough, not only the dosh it's saved me but the fun I've had out of it. I have 99% of my 'mishaps' on the sim, and only 1% on my little heli. Bless her she's got a little chunk out of her tail, ah well, another 20 quid gone soon I guess

[t4ttyt3ddy]

Hi

I'm a newbie to this hobbie, and would just like to thank you for this wonderful thread.
I now feel that I am forwarned about alot of the problems with buying your first heli. The advice here has given me a good picture of what the advantages are to starting small.

I would have been lost without this!

I will now be finding my local model shop probably Midland Helicopters, and will purchase a Blade CX2.

All I need now is to find an Indoor Flying club in Warwickshire!!!
Any Ideas anyone!!!

[brin]

as a new member and new to helis i have bought a cx2 2nd hand and was very dissapointed as the guy who sold it had completly messed up upgrading to ali bits so i was pleased to find your message uplifting and usful as i will need a new inner shaft
spare blades and a lot of patients trying to set it up properly. ps i am not completly in the dark as i have read up alot about the blade and woud suggest that newcomers do the same many thanks

[Boggy]

if your a complete newby brin becareful of s/h but if youv'e already got it post up your probs sombody can probably help!

[buttons129]

deleted my post and posted in new thread

[stevezodiac]

Excuse my ingnorance, but.....

Hi All

I may be asking this in the wrong place, but after working my way through this thread and the many arguments over over power choice for beginners, I understand the obvious difference between electric and nitro, (used to be glowplug when I were a lad), but what is IC?

Cheers, Steve

[Boggy]

internal combustion.. nitro.... glowplug ..etc
confusing innit!

[Morpeth]

great thread, good reading. thanks

[Hairball]

Learning - this might help

I have Microsoft's latest Sim and one of the things you can do with it is view whatever you are flying from the outside. This is a great way to learn RC. Yeah, I'm a fine one to talk, I'm 4 weeks into RC and I'm giving advice already - typical Colonial what?

So you want to learn to fly an RC chopper. If you have a good sim program select the outside-view and start flying. The nice thing is that out of the many, many, many times you crash you can see what happens - as it happens. It's great for learning orientation so that when the aircraft/chopper is nose-in to you - the controls are reversed - but you can-and-will learn how to handle this.

Of all the hundreds of dumb-related crashes I've had - none cost me a penny and only my pride was injured. BTW, I got the sim program that came with my E-Sky V-3 and I'm damned if I can get it to work properly, but since you probably have a computer get yourself a half-decent flight sim, go for the outside view and practice, practice, practice. I've found it a great help and it's saved me some bucks on new blades etc.

Now since you (dear reader) are probably in England, would you go and have a Best Bitter or three for me? It's hard to find in the colonies and costs far too much! Cheers, Hairball PS. Do they still make Watney's Red Barrel? Loved that stuff!

[-=JK=-]

Having read all of this, my newbie advice is a CX2 & Phoenix.

You can have the real-time dramas with your CX & then use the transmitter on the Sim while the batteries charge.

Heli's aren't easy, and while i knew Nitro's existed & have done for a long time now, there is no way i'd have committed financially when i didn't know if i could get on with it.

CX's are practically an impulse buy in terms of cost, and they're great fun. Yes, the learning curve moves again when you make the next step up, but it's easier to manage after a few hours on a CX in real life (as well as putting things right after the inevitable happens) and time on a good sim.

I'm soon to be in the Blade 400 club, and can't wait. Something better may come along after that, but at the mo', with the help of this forum, i feel i've progressed at a good pace for the short time i've been playing around with rc helis.

Long may it continue :-)