What's the best indoor / outdoor heli??

[Karlo]

Hi all,
before I carry on can I apologise if this seems too early.
Due to my limited knowledge and experience in this hobby I am trying to see what is the next step for me to go.

i am trying to workout what's a decent indoor / outdoor for this size room and mainly indoor and slight outdoor flying in the garden.


hope you can see the size, it's approx 14ft x 14ft

is it the nano Cpx? It's the only model and brand I hear of the most here.


i have a Msrx which I am loving and training with at the moment in this room.

tbh I don't know if I will go outdoor only due to time, experience and commitments.

Thanks all

[tomatwalden]

NanoCPX for that room. Even an mcpx would be a bit much.

TBH, for collective pitch you really want to be either outdoors, or in a large hall (sports hall or village hall)

[SGD]

Have you looked at the Blade MCPX? It's a little bigger than the Nano and and having flown both outdoors found it coped better with a little wind and as it's a bit bigger was easier to fly than the Nano which can be more of a handful for the beginner.

[Karlo]

Thanks,
so really the only option is to go outdoor in this hobby, even with micro helicopters?

Was hoping I could stay more indoor / back garden..for the time being and get the next upgrade helicopter that will forfill my needs for the next 3-6 months. Lol

before even thinking of getting into the big bucks of outdoor flying and insurance etc...

[tomatwalden]

You could fly a nano in that room, but even micro collective pitch helicopters can shift - you couldn't do anything more in that space than you could with an msrx.

So yes, really it's outdoors only. Good news is that assuming it's not blowing a gale, even the micro CP helis will fly OK outside and are fine for garden flying.

[Karlo]

Thanks, so the best one to get would be the nano Cpx for my situation at the moment...

able to fly indoor and will be able to use outside if I want.

and that should be all I need for indoor at the max I guess.

[tomatwalden]

It's difficult. Realistically I don't think you'll be able to fly anything bigger than a nano in that room. Outside, the nano will fly OK if there is only a light breeze, but an mcpxBL would fly better. But you won't be able to fly a BL in that room - not beyond just hovering.

So I guess it's where you want to fly most ... choices, choices ...

[Karlo]

Lol yeah, I was hoping of saving money at the initial start up to the hobby. I guess that went through the roof before I started...with the dx6 issue...

I was hoping I could get a particular CP model and train up on that after the Msrx and still use it outdoor.
when I get better I can see if I want to start to think about being serious enough to spend £300+ for an outdoor model.

[tomatwalden]

Just use the msrx indoors and get a BL or 130x for outdoors.

[Paz26181]

Mcpx BL is a good little heli to get your hands on

[kenny d]

Just use the msrx indoors and get a BL or 130x for outdoors.

Plus 1

the msrx is a great trainer , I was still using it for orientations even when I could fly cp reasonably well , I never got on with the nano at all , even dumbed down it's a wee wasp , lol , I love my mcpx bl for out door training , hope this helps kd

[Karlo]

Thank you all for the input....

[james_2k]

The nano inside is easy. No problems just whack on 20% expo and it's fine