bdavison
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Joined: 8/23/2004
From: Warner Robins,
GA, USA
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Well, I would recommend getting two batteries. Two is enough.
I dont recommend flying two batteries back to back. The motors get quite warm after flying a whole battery pack. You need to let it cool down for about 15 min or so before jumping back in the sky again. If you run them back to back, you run the risk of burning up a motor. Its not going to be fun replacing those motors. You pretty much have to disassemble the entire heli to get them out.
The OEM battery with the included charger takes about 45 min to an hour to fully charge. Flight times are around 15-20min or so per battery pack. As with all LiPo batteries, you dont want to charge them at a rate faster than an hour.
I think Im pretty much maxed out on what I can do with the heli. I dont worry about crashing it anymore, I just go nuts with it.
I took it to our weekly fly-in on tuesday, and flew the hell out of it. We fly in a high school gym. I had the thing doing rotating circles, and wild piroettes that were insane. I even flew it through the rafters. There was another fellow out there that just got his, and was learning how to fly it. He's doing real good. I figure in about a week, he will be doing wild stuff too.
I highly recommend following the instruction manual on trimming and tracking the thing correctly. It flys SO much better once you really tweak it.
I wish I could post some videos of it doing the aerobatics. Its really wild looking. One of my favorite maneuvers with it is to make it do a slow nice gentle circles about two times, then when everyone sees it going really smoothly, start tightening the circles up tighter and tighter so that the circle eventually compresses into a full deflection wild piroette, then give full backwards cyclic, and let the piroette get bigger and bigger until your doing slow nice gentle circles backwards. It kinda looks like the heli is "going down the drain" if you start with the circles at a high altitude and end it with the fast piroette about a foot off the ground.
Think about those coin donation thingys that you put a coin in and it starts going round and round, until it gets to the bottom of the cone, and its flying around REALLY fast...same thing.
I cant recommend this heli enough. Its hot, and fun, and really easy to fly.
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