Man, I love my HDX 450... Now if I'd just get the nerve to FLY it! LMAO...

Was great fun building, programing the radio, etc.. for a first 'real' heli. But looking at how pretty all the bling is and then spinning it up after flying an AXE CP for months.. I'm scared to be honest! lol. Don't know if the Heli scares me, or the sales slips from all the components is doing it.

(Actually I just bought a battery for it so I'll take her up once the wind dies down here..)

The mechanics are rock solid compared to that disposable AXE CP. Was my first build and first radio setup but I followed all the HeliFreak videos, checked, re-checked... checked again.. It's dead on and I know it!

Odd thing tho, I took it to the LHS for their 'Heli and Plane' guy to inspect and he started *****ing about being at zero pitch at center stick.. Well, I programmed it that way for 2 reasons and someone let me know if I'm wrong..

1) When flipping to Idle Up the pitch curves match perfectly so it won't go shooting into the sky with the higher throttle.

2) My G3.5 has all the models set that way, and after the ### hours spent on the SIM, it only makes sense to at least be close to how it is setup.

Am I wrong? I have negative pitch set to -2deg in normal mode for below center stick since I won't be hitting the Idle Up unless in positive pitch mode in the first place.. but for Idle Up I have a nice arc'd curve with center stick being 0deg and full positive/negative being +11/-11 deg. (Non Idle-Up is set to +10deg -> -2 below center stick)

Dave