This was a couple pages back, but I figured I would comment.

To whomever made the video with the jimmy buffet soundtrack. That's good flying for still having the trainign gear on. You should loose those things and see how much better it reponds without them. You mentioned something about the thing wobbling when going from forward flight to a hover. I also notice it loosing altitude. The reason for this is VRS. Vortex Ring State... This is common to all helicopter and is a result of the rotor blades passing through turbulent air created by the rotor blades. Confusing? think of it this way. When the rotor blades push air down, the air gets very turbulent and bumpy. Then, when you drop the blades down into their own turbulence, they become less efficient, and the heli kinda "falls" out of the sky, or wobbles around. When you are in forward flight, the helicopter doesn't require as much pitch because the rotor doesn't have to "work" so hard due to the calm air constantly passing through and under the blades. When you get into a hover, the air underneath the rotors gets very turbulent, and the rotor has to suck additional air into the rotor from the top. It requires a lot more power and pitch to hover. When decending, in hover, you have to do it very slowly, or in steps. You can't decend quickly with a helicopter. The best way to decend (and most realistic scale way) is to make an approach, either in a straight shot, or in circles(not pirouettes). Adding some forward motion puts calm air under the blades. As you move forward, you can really cut the power back, until you are decending at almost a 45 degree angle. when you get a few feet above the ground(about 6 feet), add lots of power, and nose up to stop the forward motion. Just add power, and you won't have wobble. Same goes for forward flight. In order to lessen that wobble, you have to use more throttle stick control, and balloon out, or flare out your transitions from forward flight to hover. Upon approach to a hover, from forward flight, dip the nose down slightly, then pull back "aft" cyclic and add a burst of throttle/collective. Then, gradually return the throttle to a normal hover position. This will flatten out the rotor and allow a stable hover without the unnessesary wobble or drop in altitude. If you think it is bad with the Blade CP, get a .50 sized nitro bird with carbon fiber blades. It will drop like a rock once you reach a certain point of air turbulence under the rotor.

Without those training sticks, the response will be a lot better, and you'll find you didn't need them anyway. I see you get very close to the ground on a couple of occasions. The best thing to do is add lots more throttle than you think is nessesary. You can always loose power quickly, but gaining it is slow.


Dennis,
I am with you on the nitro birds. They are a TON easier to fly than the blade cp, and although you do need to exaggerate certain maneuvers to compensate for the size, they are deffinitely fun to fly. Crashing them is another thing...

I'd rather crash my blade cp 50 times, than crash the nitro once. I have dropped the Blade CP out of the sky, then picked it up, set it on it's skids, and flew away from the crash site. You can't do that with a .30-.90 size heli.

I also think that the Blade CP is a great trainer for the nitro birdies. If you can fly the Blade CP with confidence, the nitro machine will deffinitely be a welcomed change. I like to fly my nitro machines, and my planks, and my Blade CX, but I use the Blade CP religiously, for "real life" training for the nitro machines. The sim is good, very good. It's a great way to kill time when you can't play with yoru toys, but the Blade CP is like putting weights on a baseball bat. When you take those weights off(move to nitro) everything reaction is faster than nessesary, and everything seems so smooth.

I just hate flying a nitro helicopter for 3 or 4 hours, then trying to fly the Blade CP. I forget how much different it is, and usually within the first couple minutes, if you listen really hard, you'll hear "Oh crap!" come from my house. That's the sound of me forgetting about the squirrely whirrly bird.

John