hello and hapy new year from a new member

[bcphill]

Hello all and a hapy new year.well i finally decided to try and fulfill a long held dream and "get into" RC helicopters with the intention of owning something half decent one day.I of course made the mistake of buying one without taking any advice whatsoever and just asked the wife to buy me one for christmas. I ended p with a Nikko Skyripper costing £65 from ......toys are us. anyhow a few trial frights and crashes made me realise that i needed help so here i am. I crashed it on Wednesday breaking the main rotor. Luckily the spares are quite cheap so they are on order.I have read the beginners posts so realise that i may as well write off that £65 for now at least and look to buying something a bit more beginner freindly.So the advice is the CX2 then ? We have a local flying feild nearly and a bigger one about 5 miles away for when i get more experience. What steps apart from buying another heli (is that the correct slang/shortened term or is copter better) should i take.. insurance, training courses ?I had a bad fall in june and so cant (as yet) continue with my other hobby of metal detecting so i may sell the £1400 detector and put it towards another helicopter. I can use a RC unit no problem.Any other advise greatfully recieved.PhillGreat Barr Bimingham

[Sesame]

Your first step is to decide how seriously your gonna take the hobby and wehat you want to get out of it. the CX2 is great for a little indoor work get you used to the controls etc. Their fun little helis, plus with the transmitter you get with them you would be able to link to a sim like Pheonix, which IMHO is the best heli sim on the market. so to setup using that your talking roughly £180-200 for the cx2 and sim.

On the other hand if your interest lies in the helis capable of aerobatic flying then you can go either electric or IC a new heli on the market the Blade 400 looks a good start to this, but having said that it could still do with setting up and checking out by someone who knows their way around a heli so a trip to one of your local clubs would probably be a very good idea.

If you wanted to get a little more into it then you have the slightly higher spec helis like in the electric the T-Rex 450/500 or mini Titan and then you also have the IC helis Raptors/Knights/T-rex prices for these can vary whether you buy secondhand or new. but obviously the bigger you go the more expensive it gets.

[bcphill]

Many thanks tony.Well as its one of the things that i have always had in my mind to do. I think i would take it seriously. I tend to wait and chew on things for quite a while so as not to have a fad about things like toad of toad hall.I quite fancy starting simply say indoors until my confidence improves. I thought that the Nikko Sky ripper i bought may have been ok indoors but no way. Too unstable.As a matter of interest i looked for the CX2 on the site shop but couldnt find any reference to it. Is it made by a company called blade?maybe need to visit the local model shop.?Anyway thanks for the replyPhill

[xygax]

Look um up on the internet or try somewhwre like Midland helicopters (Hinkley afir) they got all sorts
Steve...

[Sesame]

I think midland do it in a combo with Phoenix

theres quite a few places that do it, it comes with 2.4gig radio so interferance is non existant.

They are firmly indoor helis as even the slightest wind will disturb them, having said that like any heli you need enough room to fly it.

[bcphill]

Thanks tony.Yes i have found plenty on tinternet.I assume if it was a really calm day you could fly outside once i had the hang of it.

[Sesame]

It would have to be very calm, it dont take alot to blow them around.

the added bonus is the transmitter working with PHeonix so you can be learning CP helis too. may give you some insite into which direction you want to take your hobby.

[Smoothound]

It's not so much that they get blown around outside but the fact they are fixed pitch and tend to balloon up when they get the wind under them, to get them down you have to back off the throttle which reduces your control making it a battle which often ends with you having to shut the throttle and let them drop from too much height!!

[bcphill]

It would have to be very calm, it dont take alot to blow them around.

the added bonus is the transmitter working with PHeonix so you can be learning CP helis too.

Excuse my ignorance.. CP helis? Controlled pitch? or something else.

I need a glossary of RCH terms lol

[robgt]

CP = Collective Pitch (you can change the pitch of the rotor blades)
FP = Fixed pitch

Here's a glossary of a few terms - needs adding to again, and continuously
Cheers,
Rob

[Sesame]

Sorry, should have written in full hand

CP= Collective pitch - you have control over both throttle or head speed and the amount of pitch/angle of the blades

FP= Fixed pitch where the blades are set at a prefixed angle and your just controlling the speed of the head

[bcphill]

no problem
Yes been looking on a web site of a local model shop.
(mikes models) like the lok of the twister v2 at £149 which is a cp 4ch job siutable for a beginner.

also loking at other twister models which come with FOC flight sims and DVDs etc for arounf £100 eg twister hawk army.

Getting itchy wallet syndrome so better back up.

I went up 2 flying field earlier today but no one flying anything despite fields being open.

Phill

[Sesame]

Twisters will do the job But there is a reason that they give away the sim software free.

Personally I would go for the blade cx2 as it is a nice little machine and better radio system and you can get then for £115 and then spend just that little bit more on Pheonix, which will give you so much more realistic experience than the freebie ones.

[bcphill]

Twisters will do the job But there is a reason that they give away the sim software free.

Personally I would go for the blade cx2 as it is a nice little machine and better radio system and you can get then for £115 and then spend just that little bit more on Pheonix, which will give you so much more realistic experience than the freebie ones.

Ok thanks for that. I think i will go for the cx2 as its the one most recommended on here and thats why i registered on here in the first place.

The shop i mentioned doesnt sell it but i dont want to rush into it.. oh yes i do. No seriously i rushed into buying the Nikki only to find a. Its now out of production (but at least you can get spares) and b. the customer services are in France and Tiawan so theres no hope. I like to be able to go into a shop and talk to someone.

Thanks again all

Phill