ORIGINAL: Bijan999
ORIGINAL: Big Green Machine
ORIGINAL: Bijan999
Strongs words I know but I'm convinced after a couple months this helicopter is only made for simple hovering around INDOORS. I took mine oustide again for the 3rd time and managed to crash hard twice in 10 minutes destroying all blades and bending both shafts again. This thing simply is highly unstable at any kind of fast flight.
Those of you thinking I simply can't fly, trust me, I've flown planes for 20 years, everything from pattern to pylon. I know how to be smooth. After much trial and error I'm certain these coaxial helicopters simply aren't designed to fly quickly like a full collective. They are made to fly indoors and hover around which gets old quick in my opinion.
If I had it to do, I'd get one of those Airhog Reflex 4 channel coaxial helicopters for $65 to hover around inside the house. Live and learn.
Anyone wanting a CX2 with 7 batteries, 3chargers, Xtreme motors, boomtown skids/boom kit and tons of others parts, it'll be on Ebay soon. I'm moving up to a Blade 400 or gas equivalent.
Well if you can fly this smooth with the CX2 then you wouldn't be crashing it now would you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nXU6iTE4uQ
DaxFX with his stock CX2
http://youtube.com/watch?v=f9nBurDLNm8
I know you said you did your research but if you bought it thinking it was somehow comarable to a collective pitch heli then your research was garbage. Good luck on the next heli. I bet you'll never crash it!
BGM,
Those two videos were about as unimpressive as anything I've seen. The first video was a joke, you think that's impressive? I've seen the second video and only the first half was viewable the video was so bad. Much of what he does perfectly illustrates what I'm talking about. Notice after straight foward flight he trys to turn it. It immediatly drops 10-20 feet. It does this time after time. Never did he maintain speed and bank at the same time. This video, if anything, backs up my claim that these helicopters aren't capable of this kind of flight.
It's obvious my research was garbage, I never would have gone down this road knowing what little it was capable of and how expensive it was to maintain.
Yep, I knew something stunk of garbage. I actually think both videos are fairly impressive, especially the first one as that is really how the CX is meant to be flown, and unlike you I actually watched these videos
before I bought the CX2 so i knew what I was in for and I already owned a collective pitch helicopter so I wasn't looking for a substitute.