Originally Posted by madmorgan

firstly i would recommend that you go to the lhs and see if the have some 3 or 4 mm carbon rod to make your trainers with.

The local LHS has the 3 or 4 mm carbon rod or carbon tubes of similar dimensions if in imperial sizes.

on the other hand they should have trainer kits that you would install on the skids. aluminum has no spring to it and you will want some spring as it will help cushion .

It makes good sense that some springing would be favorable. The piano wire size I used ( 3/32 inch diameter ) does not have enough rigidity and bends too much. I did not wish to use a larger diameter in order to avoid excessive weight.

i remember trying them trainer gears after the first time i removed them personally i found them to be worse then trying to land on the regular skids.

It seems to me that the purpose of the beginner's skid is to avoid or reduce the main rotors hitting the ground with results in breaking components, bending main shaft and so on when landing at high degrees of pitch or roll attitudes. If a flier does not need them I figure he/she is already a qualified heli pilot or does not care about the cost of new parts and the trouble of doing some repair. I think that could ( would ) occur for many initial attempts to fly.

secondly I HIGHLY RECOMMEND getting a pc flight sim especially for you zor i dont think you want to find out what a 300 x hitting any part of the body will feel like. they arent a toy like the nanos or the co ax helis. really none of them are a toy but the smaller ones ie nanos mcpx,s wont hurt as bad but they all could take a eye out. my mcpx drew blood on a finger one day ! keep it safe and remember the pc flight sims do help you just have to be kinda religious about practicing on it. it does get boring but its cheaper and easier to crash the digital helis than it is to crash the real thing.