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I'm posting this thread because it's one that I would like to have read about one month ago. It may help others in the early stages of CX2/heli-oholism, who, having also been seduced by the E-Flite, anyone-can-do-it, promo videos, now have a fine collection of knackered blades and bent inner shafts.
After a couple of Christmas toys arrived from Santa for me to fly in the house, I wanted a proper machine and bought a CX2. The weather was not good and I spent a week piddling about in the house, plus on a couple of breeze-free days outside, cracking blades and getting frustrated. Using the weather as an excuse, I then bought a BNF mCX and within a couple of days, without the broken blades and swearing, got to the stage where I could really thrash it round the living room. The nose-in stuff became second nature, as did riding the throttle to maintain height during left and right turns, crossing the sticks for nose-in / tail-in circles and even allowing for the proximity effects of tall objects (wall and ceiling suck) and also ground effect.
The outcome is typified pretty much by today's results. I work from home staring at a computer screen most of the time, and to stop myself going potty I find that 10 minutes out from time to time, with the baby heli, is good therapy.
BUT - today, it's clap calm outside (the merest zephyr of breeze) and I've had half a dozen breaks, whizzing the CX2 instead over the snow covered garden with a confidence that's totally due to learning inside, on the mCX. I calculate that the baby one has saved me a big lump of it's purchase price in blades and other bits that I would have spent money on struggling with the CX2 alone.
I'm astounded at how, on the whole, the little one mirrors the flight characteristics of the big one. The CX2 just needs more space because everything happens bigger and faster - and I even managed to fly it back through the kitchen doorway and land on the fridge. Hell - was I chuffed!
Anyway, my nephew wants a heli for his birthday - so he's getting an mCX first. I'm just grateful I got mine sooner rather than a more expensive later.
If anyone thinks all this is b****cks, please tell me nicely. I'm having a such a great day - and I'm off out again now for another LiPo's worth and then an early beer to celebrate.
Ro.
After a couple of Christmas toys arrived from Santa for me to fly in the house, I wanted a proper machine and bought a CX2. The weather was not good and I spent a week piddling about in the house, plus on a couple of breeze-free days outside, cracking blades and getting frustrated. Using the weather as an excuse, I then bought a BNF mCX and within a couple of days, without the broken blades and swearing, got to the stage where I could really thrash it round the living room. The nose-in stuff became second nature, as did riding the throttle to maintain height during left and right turns, crossing the sticks for nose-in / tail-in circles and even allowing for the proximity effects of tall objects (wall and ceiling suck) and also ground effect.
The outcome is typified pretty much by today's results. I work from home staring at a computer screen most of the time, and to stop myself going potty I find that 10 minutes out from time to time, with the baby heli, is good therapy.
BUT - today, it's clap calm outside (the merest zephyr of breeze) and I've had half a dozen breaks, whizzing the CX2 instead over the snow covered garden with a confidence that's totally due to learning inside, on the mCX. I calculate that the baby one has saved me a big lump of it's purchase price in blades and other bits that I would have spent money on struggling with the CX2 alone.
I'm astounded at how, on the whole, the little one mirrors the flight characteristics of the big one. The CX2 just needs more space because everything happens bigger and faster - and I even managed to fly it back through the kitchen doorway and land on the fridge. Hell - was I chuffed!
Anyway, my nephew wants a heli for his birthday - so he's getting an mCX first. I'm just grateful I got mine sooner rather than a more expensive later.
If anyone thinks all this is b****cks, please tell me nicely. I'm having a such a great day - and I'm off out again now for another LiPo's worth and then an early beer to celebrate.
Ro.
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