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Esky Honey Bee - 3/25/2004 5:46:27 PM

ADE

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I just bought an Esky Honey Bee and made a stupid nube mistake. Now I need to replace the flybar and a few other parts.

Can anyone tell me where to by parts? Also, Is there a simulator out there that will work with the transmitter that came with the unit?

If you own this heli...please provide any suggestions.

Thanks,

Tony

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RE: Esky Honey Bee - 3/25/2004 6:09:53 PM

blueprints

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Is ther a site where we can know more abt this heli.

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RE: Esky Honey Bee - 3/25/2004 7:45:29 PM

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never heard of it
is iot a 2 channel or a four or above dose it have full cyclic and rear rotor control.

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RE: Esky Honey Bee - 3/25/2004 11:25:26 PM

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Yes, the E-sky honeybee has a connector to connect it to a computer. There you can use FMS2 to train in the simulator. My hobbyshop and i usually order from www.rc-expert.com or other hobbyshops from china.
The e-sky from my point of view flies better than the aerohawk, feda, and all others. Why did i say that? Cause at first hover, it's very stable (or am i just lucky with it?

) I was also going to buy it, but i was tempted to buy the dragonfly cause it's so much like the hummingbird, and thus i can make mods very similar with the hummingbird. The parts of the dragonfly are also more well known.

Hope that helps.

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RE: Esky Honey Bee - 3/26/2004 12:31:46 AM

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Thanks for the information. I'll try that online hobby shop. I purchased my unit off ebay and it came with a spy cam and sim cord. However, I have not been able to get the transmitter to work with FMS. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. My computer is loaded with XP but I can control everything with my keyboard. Any tips on this are welcomed as well. Being new to this area sucks! I want to get my bird in the air.....I've contacted my seller in china and gave him my needed part number....hopefully things will pan out.

Thanks again,

Tony

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RE: Esky Honey Bee - 3/26/2004 1:03:53 AM

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You know, i'm now able to fly my feda dragonfly without the help of simulators. Simulators do help, you can also learn to hover/fly without it. These micro helis (dragonfly, hummingbird, aerohawk, esky) are quite strong. Even with so many crashes they're still almost like new. As long as you don't fly too high, keep it chest high or below. Fly too low is also not good, coz of the ground effect. It'll definitely slides left, correct it and once you're at chest level, it'll level. As long as you configure your gyro to a neutral/close to neutral trim, you'll be able to learn to hover.
I think fms only works in windows98 (with tx)? But i did try with winxp and stil works (with keyboard). But i haven't tried connecting the tx to the computer with winxp.

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RE: Esky Honey Bee - 3/28/2004 12:54:09 PM

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I just got my esky honey bee and got a pretty good little gash in my arm

because when I turned my radio on and set the trim and throttle to it's lowest setting and then hooked up the battery pack the blades were turning at full throttle. The throttle will not go up or down seems to be stuck in full throttle. Did I recieve a defective honey bee or am I doing something wrong?

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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RE: Esky Honey Bee - 3/28/2004 3:28:54 PM

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Here's a link to a guy who sells simulators, interfaces, and tx's. He's very professional and his customer support is A1!
http://www.tti-us.com/sim/

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RE: Esky Honey Bee - 3/28/2004 3:33:21 PM

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ADE,
You can make your own flybar out of some carbon fiber from either your local hobby shop or a kite store. When cutting (with an xacto) roll the cf otherwise it will shard.

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RE: Esky Honey Bee - 3/29/2004 1:59:06 AM

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Dear All,

I have bought many e-Skies.Most of them will fly well out of the box. But if you have no experience in using rc heli before, you'd better borrow a simulator from someone to save you from crash. This heli is quite tough, it will withstand crash anyway. Add small plastic pipe to the tail rotor support. It will avoid the tail blade from hitting the ground if you accidently land the heli with tail blade first.

I'm willing to email you the picture of my heli along with its small video , in low altitude , just about 30 cms from the floor, moving aroung the living room.

You gotta practice many times to be able to fly micro heli. They are more difficult to fly than engine powered heli.

Good Luck,

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RE: Esky Honey Bee - 3/29/2004 2:03:23 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: darkside212

Here's a link to a guy who sells simulators, interfaces, and tx's. He's very professional and his customer support is A1!
http://www.tti-us.com/sim/

Darkside212, - Thanks. I have downloaded everyhting from Tom's site. I still cant get my simulator to work. Somewhere out there exist a disk with everything (FMS, upgrades, drivers, etc) you need to get FMS up and running. I see this disk included in many heli packages that are being sold on ebay. I just purchased an ARF honey bee for parts.

I would really like to get a simulator without having to spend so much money.

Thanks,

Tony

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RE: Esky Honey Bee - 3/29/2004 4:28:19 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: ADE

quote:

ORIGINAL: darkside212

Here's a link to a guy who sells simulators, interfaces, and tx's. He's very professional and his customer support is A1!
http://www.tti-us.com/sim/

Darkside212, - Thanks. I have downloaded everyhting from Tom's site. I still cant get my simulator to work. Somewhere out there exist a disk with everything (FMS, upgrades, drivers, etc) you need to get FMS up and running. I see this disk included in many heli packages that are being sold on ebay. I just purchased an ARF honey bee for parts.

I would really like to get a simulator without having to spend so much money.

Thanks,

Tony

Do you know True flite 3D (www.tru-flite.co.uk) ? It is inexpensive, and realistic. pls give it a try.
would email me your email address, I have tru-flite interface for sale , for less than USD 20.

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RE: Esky Honey Bee - 4/1/2004 4:20:22 AM

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I just tried my esky for the first time. It does slide left and I really don't have enough room. I did manage to get the hang of the controls a little bit. No crashes and no incidents. I almost had it up and hovering. It takes a lot of patience and very careful trimming. It also seems like it DOES take a fair amount of practice. I ordered the "training wheels" and I'm waiting for them to come.

I have a question: what do you do with the antenna ? Do you leave wound around one rail ? It seemed to weigh the copter down to one side so I wrapped it loosely around both rails.

I'm new to RC helicopters. I started flying RC planes 15 years ago but didn't do it very much and have a lot of experience with RC cars. I have enough experience to have fair idea of what's going with the esky. I think this is a great little helicopter for $180! I always wanted a RC helicopter but didn't want to spend a lot of money.

I wasn't crazy about the manual being in Chinese but I think more info will pop up on the net. I would love to see the videos; I think I can learn from them. How can I give you my email address with out posting it on the forum ?

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RE: Esky Honey Bee - 4/1/2004 6:12:55 AM

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Tips for flying RC micro helis:

- Give immediate enough throttle to make it lift off, do not increase the throttle slowly. It will slide the heli to the left, and you will run out of space very soon..
- Once it lifts off the ground, adjust the aileron control to the right, as the heli will tend to bank to the left.
- If the heli is in the air, adjust the rudder trimmer so that the heli will maintain the heading.
- E sky can be controlled easier when it sin the air.
- Do not overcontrol. Just do the correction smoothly.
- I have bought many E-skies , and most of them are ready to fly out of the box.

You can download a small portion of my e-sky circling around my living room at http://knvonline.net/files/esky1.wmv

Hope this will help.

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