RE: E-FLIGHT BLADE CP
Yeah Jet Jaguar, the hard part is getting it inverted, once it is, then you can keep it there. To loop it you have to get LOTS of altitude, then dive and come ripping by you (still with lots of altitude) and pull the nose up to loop it. Be ready on the sticks, Sometimes the tail will swing. Put some Fins on the tail, and it will help ALOT, but you have to have forward airspeed for them to work. If it doesnt make it up to the top, be ready on the sticks to roll it out.
The easiest way Ive found to get it inverted, is to come ripping by you, pull the nose up a little, and then roll it over. Apparently e-flite figured this out too, since every video they have....thats how they got it inverted. They wont tell you that though, but video's dont lie. Watch the e-flite video on horizons website, you'll see him come zipping by, pull it up, and roll it over, then key rudder to make it hover inverted nose in. Sneaky little ******. I wonder how many blades he broke before that pilot figured out how to do it.
I got a pic somewhere on here where I have mine inverted about 2ft off the deck. I had to roll it to get it there. Then inverted hover down to the deck. So far I havent been able to repeat that though. I just got lucky that time.
Practice stall turns ALOT. They will help you get used to the beginnings of a loop. Plus keying the rudder at the top will get you use to your "escape" procedure should something go wrong. Keep increasing your pull up, until you get it inverted. Remember to keep LOTS of forward airspeed, or it wont make it over the top, and you have to abort with the heli at about a 45 degree inverted angle.....hard to recover from.
I had a nasty crash a couple of days ago trying to pull a loop. Broke a blade grip, and stripped about 10 teeth off my main gear, and crumpled up my canopy. Darn thing didnt make it over the top, and stopped about 45 degrees...just couldnt pull out. It went in nose first inverted into the dirt. For some reason it didnt do a thing to the blades....Ill never figure that one out, especially since I was in idle-up when it went in. Darn thing was flopping around like a chicken before I could shut it down. It happened quick....REAL quick. But aye....thats just part of it. 15 bucks later and I was back up and running. Couldnt find a canopy, so Im flying on my crumpled one. Ill get another soon.