Blade CX to light
08-21-2006 | 07:38 PM
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From: mansfield,
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RE: Blade CX to light
The problem is not weight, it's size. The CX is an indoor heli. Nothing you do to it will make it handle wind very well IMO.
Fly the CX indoors until you can really fly it good, then upgrade to a CP heli and start all over again
Fly the CX indoors until you can really fly it good, then upgrade to a CP heli and start all over again
08-21-2006 | 09:05 PM
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From: Clinton Twp,
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RE: Blade CX to light
As for flying in the wind with a cx it can be done. You need to be a descent pilot to start with and then add a set of heavy duty landing gear. I use the skid set for a trex 450. Next set your pushrods on the servo out one hole.
You should be able to fly it in a slight wind. Perhaps up to 3 miles an hour.
When I first started with a stock blade and didn't know how to fly, I could not even attempt a little breeze. NOW IT IS A BREEZE
Mark
keep it in the air, not in the garbage can!
You should be able to fly it in a slight wind. Perhaps up to 3 miles an hour.
When I first started with a stock blade and didn't know how to fly, I could not even attempt a little breeze. NOW IT IS A BREEZE
Mark
keep it in the air, not in the garbage can!
08-22-2006 | 12:20 AM
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From: Slidell,
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RE: Blade CX to light
Yup, biggest problem with the CX in even a slight breeze is the lack of power. You suddenly find yourself with full forward cyclic facing into the wind and still going backwards. Reducing the throttle to avoid climbing just costs you MORE forward thrust so you go backwards faster but hopefully start sinking too.
Basically the darn thing has enough thrust to lift into the air, but very little angular thrust available. It weighs so little it doesn't need it until you are dealing with outside forces. Heck, even with the AC vent closed as far as it can in a spare room mine would still get pushed around depending on whether you were in that airstream or not and I could barely feel the air moving.
Turn off any fans, AC, close windows... then fly it. If there's any breeze outside don't bother and definitely don't get very high. Ten feet up there can be a lot more airflow than ground level, twenty feet up you really start changing things...
This is actually one reason I'm moving to a T-rex from my Blade CP even though I'm far from mastering hovering with it. The CP is an order of magnitude better than the CX with wind but it's still a small and light heli and more than one of my crashes was caused by relatively minor changes in the breeze. A better pilot might not have had a problem, but the T-rex probably wouldn't have even noticed it enough to do more than slide a bit.
Basically the darn thing has enough thrust to lift into the air, but very little angular thrust available. It weighs so little it doesn't need it until you are dealing with outside forces. Heck, even with the AC vent closed as far as it can in a spare room mine would still get pushed around depending on whether you were in that airstream or not and I could barely feel the air moving.
Turn off any fans, AC, close windows... then fly it. If there's any breeze outside don't bother and definitely don't get very high. Ten feet up there can be a lot more airflow than ground level, twenty feet up you really start changing things...
This is actually one reason I'm moving to a T-rex from my Blade CP even though I'm far from mastering hovering with it. The CP is an order of magnitude better than the CX with wind but it's still a small and light heli and more than one of my crashes was caused by relatively minor changes in the breeze. A better pilot might not have had a problem, but the T-rex probably wouldn't have even noticed it enough to do more than slide a bit.
