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Old 04-05-2007 | 11:46 PM
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mrasmm
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Default RE: Second Heli

No prob, and welcome to the group. If you haven't had rc flight experience before, I probably wouldn't recommend a Trex unless you have someone there to help you set it up. It would just be a really steep learning curve that would probably get you frustrated. It can be done, and people have done it, but if you're not natural at it or don't have someone to help you set it up, it will probably be too frustrating, especially at the beginning.

If I was you I would look into the CX2 (go with that over the CX because of the DSM, you can read up on that), also look into the 4ch FP like the falcon 40 or the honeybee. I would recommend staying as far away from walkera's as possible.... they don't have very good QC and the parts end up failing quite a bit. If you want to find out for yourself go visit the walkera forum =P. On the more advanced side you could get a prebuilt Trex, a blade cp or pro, an axe cp or a honeybee cp2. I would only recommend those if you are planning to get a nice sim to go with it, and practice the heck out of the sim before you lift off.

There is also a flight school for heli's that if you follow, you probably wont have much (if any) money spent in replacements for broken parts. That is available here
http://www.dream-models.com/eco/flying-index.html

One other big thing to consider is where are you going to fly, indoors or outdoors. Is it something you want to pick up fast, and level off... or pick up fast and progress through several heli's... get a more advanced machine and put alot more learning time and effort into it for a bigger pay off? ect ect. The cx2 would not be a good idea if you want to fly outdoors with winds above 3 to 5 mph.

Hopefully that answers a few q's, feel free to ask any others you might have.


ORIGINAL: wizarts

Hi Guys,
Sorry to butt in like this and change the subject but could someone give me some advice please.
I have never tried flying a rc copter but they have always facinated me and I would love to do it.
I just feel afraid to buy one and give it a go to only smash it and be left with a bad impression.

So, are they hard to fly?????? is it something you can just inch closer to learning because it hovers
and is it better to get a model like an ALIGN RTF T-REX that maybe performs
well and helps in my learning? or just get something cheaper like a walkera model?
I appreciate anyones help

beginner Dave