Advice for my 6 year old

[challis349]

Guys, I am looking for a bit of advice for my 6 year old who has just shown an interest in helicopters, I haven't flown or owned anything for nearly 2 years, so was wondering what's the best thing for him to do, I am guessing play around on the sim and some cheaper 4ch heli?

Anyway, what are your recommendations? May be a chance for me to get back into it too

[David Drew]

Sim, yes.

Depends on what you want to do but something like an Mcpx will be tough enough for both of you.

[challis349]

Is there yet a sim that works directly on Mac?

[David Drew]

http://www.rcheliaddict.co.uk/sale/1...x-v2-dx6i.html

[KevDavies]

Is there yet a sim that works directly on Mac?

Not as im aware, I think you still need dual boots and a windows option to run a sim on a Mac

[Ade_Law]

what about a hubsan x4 or q4?

got both here really easy to fly.

[Alfie]

Depends on the child, i tried both my boy's on the sim, and even thou they are x-box addict's, the 'scare' (respect) factor isnt there, and they just twat about!
My eldest (9), took to the msr really well, and i forced discipline on him, and hes now on 450's with a buddy lead, and progressing 1 million times faster than i did!
My youngest (7) is totally fearless, and not ready at all, although he flies the nano husban quads about really well, so i still have hope.
I can see my 9 year old soon to be 10, to be flying my 500 this summer of the lead.!
I think the real world.. i.e msr then msr-x is gives them the 'danger' aspect, therefore respect.

col.

[debrooker]

mcpx with the settings really dumbed down.

Here's my 3 yr old

[Disc]

Is there yet a sim that works directly on Mac?

Yea theres a couple but Aerofly is OSX native and I have it

if I had a clue where I've put the dongle and disks I'd lend you it but no idea where they are since I moved a year ago

[Disc]

wait found the lead just need the disks

[Disc]

If I find the disks you can borrow it but I need to find the disks...

[AlastairC]

Is there yet a sim that works directly on Mac?

Heli-X works natively. Used it a lot before going the parallels route.

http://www.heli-x.net/index_e.shtml

[philipjdall]

You can run Phoenix through parallel's, works fine

[tomatwalden]

Guys, I am looking for a bit of advice for my 6 year old who has just shown an interest in helicopters, I haven't flown or owned anything for nearly 2 years, so was wondering what's the best thing for him to do, I am guessing play around on the sim and some cheaper 4ch heli?

Anyway, what are your recommendations? May be a chance for me to get back into it too

msrx (fixed pitch), mcpx (collective), or the other option (which I've just bought for my 7yo daughter) is a little quadcopter like the Nano-QX (this is what I got), or the Hubsan X4. All are Mode-2 so your littl'un can learn the controls safely. The Nano-QX quadcopter is fantastic for learning indoors too.

[challis349]

I was wondering about the quads, maybe a little easier to get the controls and muscle memory going etc...

Plus I want a quad ahaha