Guys,

My first foray into helis was a Lite Machines with a Cox Teedee .049 which I bought about a month after they came out. Needless to say I could never get the helicopter to fly propely and after about 6 months i stripped it of all the pieces and gave up on it.

Next I bought a piccolo about 2 years ago, again about a month after it came out in the U.S., I tried for 7 months on flying that helicopter and besides some basic hovering for 20 secs, I could not do anything else with it and I got rid of it on ebay.

Today, I am going to pick up my new Hawk SE from the hobby shop, I have already gotten a futaba 9CH radio, and I will be using a JR 410T gyro, O.S. 32 engine, and the FMA Co-Pilot with it.

I wanted to ask all of you experienced people about your advice with the hawk and how I could be successful this time round instead of having to toss out this helicopter in another 6 months also.

The hobby shop guy told me that with the FMA it should be very easy to pick up flying a heli and since I already have the experience with the piccolo, I figured it should not be a big problem. But if you guys could give me any advice and tips on:

1) Putting the Hawk Together
2) Setting up the Futaba 9c
3) Setting up the JR gyro
4) Breaking in the O.S. 32
5) Using the FMA Co-Pilot


It would be really really appreciated. OK then, thanks a lot guys. Man I really want to learn to fly this thing around so I can finally try 3d which is amazing.

-Vipul