Glenn
Well, it's off to the LHS for some parts...hopefully I can get it back in the air soon. As hard as this CPP is to hover/fly, I still seem to love it for some reason! I have a couple of B400's and I think that wrestling with the CPP to hover and fly it actually is good practice for the bigger, more stable birds...


I can sure relate to the love/hate relationship with the smaller helicopter. I know I should be putting all of my effort into my Beltrex 400 CP , but the little Falcon fixed pitch is just so much fun to mess with that I still fly it. It is certainly a pain in the butt, but there is sooooo much to be learned from the FP. It seems to fill the void between the sim and the Belt. A real mistake flown to completion results in a real crash and either a little re-adjust time or a minor repair.

I still am of the opinion that one of the strong shortcomings of the sims is that there is no pain. And no pain, less gain. I suggested once that following every sim crash the flier should determine the approximate loss - had that been a real crash. Now put the value of the damage in your piggy bank. Of course you are just moving the money from one pocket to another, but flying the sim will make you sweat when you realize that dumping the throttle is not an option! And of course you are collecting funds toward your next real world crash.
Through two days of OP-ED comments, we sort of decided that even dropping a quarter into cup following every sim crash would build a repair fund, and make sim flight a bit more meaningful for those of us not maximizing our sim time.

Enough of that. I hope you acquired all of the parts needed and you are back in the air soon.
I finally did get my Belt out in the front driveway and did a little tail in work at 4 ft up and again at 10 feet up. The obnoxious wind decided that the helicopter should become someone's hood ornament, but I kept that from happening through the use of my incredible cunning and skill. Or some might call that luck. As they say, if you can fly a fixed pitch or a Blade CP, it makes flying a larger helicopter much easier.

Best of luck.