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ORIGINAL: RMG2

I should have my first single rotor in my hands by mid-week. I hope I do not have to add to this thread after my first attempts with the new HBFP

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The rotor pushes left because the heli wants to spin right. On ice, the tail rotor will push the heli across the pond just trying to keep the tail from rotating. In the air, looking from behind, the heli does not fly level. It leans right to counter the other forces. Trim your heli so when you let go of the sticks, the heli does not travel sideways out of control. Neutral stick must be neutral flight input. The heli will not hover unaided, but the trim should be set so neutral stick allows the heli to 'rest' with minimal wander. Once I got mine trimmed that way, I actually started to hover it!

Big Happy,
Soloboss

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ORIGINAL: stump3r

RMG welcome to the single rotor FP club. Nothing better than that new helicopter smell

Where to start. Holy cow, well charge the battery but you can fly your stock eflite batteries in her, just a bit of a pain getting your COG correct without having super skids. You might have some fun getting the lipo as far out on the nose as you can.
First thing is ensure your at zero pitch on the flybar paddles, balance your main and tail blades. Hmmm been a long day, can't think of anything more than that. Time to try for the elusive hover! Make sure your in a big space and just hover Remember don't get discouraged if you can't hover her out of the box. Everything you know about flying a heli just changed in a big way! When flying this guy your stick adjustments will be small inputs and always return to center, constant small adjustments. Remember when she lifts off she is going to go left on you, for lack of better terms you have to catch it and then maintain the hover. Don't hold your inputs like you do with the CX2 she will get real squirrelly real fast. Just remember cut the throttle when you get into trouble, and....we are here to help.

Have fun!!!! We will be wanting progress reports now!

Edit...Soloboss just wrote this on another thread and it fits perfect for setup here... starts off with what I touched on above with the heli wanting to go left on lift off.....

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The rotor pushes left because the heli wants to spin right. On ice, the tail rotor will push the heli across the pond just trying to keep the tail from rotating. In the air, looking from behind, the heli does not fly level. It leans right to counter the other forces. Trim your heli so when you let go of the sticks, the heli does not travel sideways out of control. Neutral stick must be neutral flight input. The heli will not hover unaided, but the trim should be set so neutral stick allows the heli to 'rest' with minimal wander. Once I got mine trimmed that way, I actually started to hover it!

Big Happy,
Soloboss

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ORIGINAL: xyster101

Congrats on the honeybee, I have a #4. The Manuel sucked with mine so PM me if you have specific Q's about her. Charge the battery for about 80 minutes. The last 20 just put your hand on it every 5 minutes. Once she is hot (little hotter then your shower) unplug it. If you let it cool for a while you can put it back on for about 15 min before you fly and that will give you an extra minute or two.
When people say they fly left, it goes left! I was frustrated the first few times I tried to lift off a few inches because it would run to the left. The CX does not do this. Once you are up around 2 feet it will hover better. Start on a flat smooth surface like a gym floor, cement floor, hardwood, or asphalt. Grass will just catch the skids and tip her. Mine flew pretty good out of the box. The CX batteries do work, but like RGM said, put them out in front of the radio, maybe take the canopy off, mount it with velcro and replace the canopy.
Put a drop of oil on the tail bearings and another piece of fuel line over the one on there to keep it in place. I lost my rubber thing on a crash.
Those skids suck and will break easily. Get super skids if you have the cash. They are more then skids, they replace the whole bottom of the heli. For now make an X with CF rod across the bottom and use fuel line to hold it in place. It will help with hard landings.
I also bought a pitch gauge for $12 from the LHS, great investment.
Buy the Align blade balancer from ushobbysupply for $4 to help balance them.
List of spare parts to get from Mike:
main blades
tail blades
tail motor
rotor ring
head
main blade clamp
skids or supers
flybars
paddles
random bag of screws (you will loose stuff)

Have fun and tell us how things go!