yay! its in transit!!!!!!

My Fedex tracker says mine will be here this FRIDAY!! I took that day off work!!!

my hobby shop got 5 in early, i got the last one today.

you lucky monkey [:'(] atleast i have a big shop to fly in right after work im off to buy a 2nd battery now!

Ok, just got done with first battery charge, spent on successful hovering with my new Blade CX2!!

First impressions:

Hmm, my BCX2 canopy was cracked right by the lower right support grommet.

Everything else came out of the well designed box just fine. I think I'll inquire about a replacement canopy. I'm wondering if the yellow canopy from the BCX would look ok with the red fuselage of the BCX2. Hmm?

Read the instructions, checked out the CD, charged the battery. While charging, fixed the canopy with a little thick goey superglue, seems ok. Attached the training gear!

Went through all the startup tests - all pass. Excellent!

Went outside to try first flight - hmm, too much wind...

Oh, well - went for the bedroom, and set up on the bed. Went through the startup tests - all pass. Muhuhahah!!! [>:]

Then I powered up and hovered very nicely just over the queen sized bed!! Tracking looks very close if not as good as can be. WOW! I could actually keep it over the bed with little effort!! My wife was freaked and I hooted!

She runs pretty smooth, but I think could be smoother with the aluminum hop-ups on the way. Its like she needs to be broken in, even so she made a pleasant humm as she buzzed around over the confines of the bed. She needed almost maximum left rudder trim, oddly. Also very slight forward and left trim made her really easy to stabilize in hover. I was very light on the sticks after trimming.

Great job on a great toy, E-Flite!! I'm sure I'll get my $ worth of fun outta this!

PS: The canopy was tricky to mess with. To help this, I used light sandpaper to round off the canopy support bars so they could slip onto the grommets more easily.

Also, the flight battery was tricky to install, and kept binding somehow. I'll work on a fix for this later.

And finally, it appears the 4-in-1 unit needs a rubberband to help secure it. No problemo.


~Mark Indiveri
Test Engineer
NVIDIA Corp.
www.nvidia.com

Thanks for the report... Us E-flite boys should work out a trade for some sweet video cards!
Maybe the executives wouldn't approve. [:@]

David

I picked up a CX2 just now (battery charging) and the 4 in 1 was dangling inside the canopy too! Just repositioned it and gave it a squeeze. Seems to be stuck pretty good now!

The carbon rods holding canopy were cut flat as well. Hard to push grommets on easily.

Chucked them in a drill with some sand paper and rounded them off...

I will report back upon 1 st flight!

Lookin forward to it!

I spent the second charge the same way - hovering over the confines of a queen sized bed - with no problems!

Except, maybe, that I need maximum left rudder trim, and I still have to push a left stick a little left to stay stable.

Oh, I now remember the book mentioning this; I'll report on how the fix goes.


I could easily and fairly precisely guide the CX2 to different locations all within the small space I was using. Amazing.

I am looking forward to flying in a larger area! [:-] duh!


PS: I did get NVIDIA approval to run FS One on the super new high end graphics card (G80 / GeForce 8800) on my high end Dell PC in the lab. Mostly, it runs at over 100 frames per seconds (FPS)!!! [8D]

~Mark Indiveri
Test Engineer
NVIDIA Corp.
www.nvidia.com

Well, first flight in garage was as advertised.

I learned on my CP PRO. So, this thing is like a hot air balloon in comparison. Floats like a butterfly and is completely controlable, quick figure 8's in a two car right off the bat!

VERY stable, only tuning I need to do is a little less proportional for a dead still tail, had to trim left rudder a few clicks, but other than that it is rock solid stable.

Need tips on getting more response, it's too sluggish and stable if you will.

I bet removing the flybar weights will do it...

This post tells how to adjust the servo linkage for a more responsive CX2:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=5062404

There is also more discussion on this at rcgroups.com

I am sure we would like to have one of the latest video cards for 'FS1 Development'!

Well, I will say that I have supported Nvidia well! Thanks for supporting E-Flite!
(I have a 7800 GT in this machine at home, and a Quadro 4 go in my laptop at work... and many others).

Hope you enjoy your CX2... dig into the manual and fine tune your Revo mixing and Gain.

David
Horizon Hobby

Yep! Fine tuned the Proportional Mix pot - now the trim needs to be a bit to the right - good enough!

I spent the 3rd charge again hovering over the queen sized bed, just to make sure the trims were in order.

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Its a very calm day today - I think I'll go out to the picnic area later!

PS: How do you attach photos to these postings? thanks!

Hey I flew my cx2 for the first time, its great but the nose turns left in flight real slow. does any one have a fix for this issue thanks.

I contacted myrcsupply.net to check on my CX2 order, here was their update:

All our remaining pre orders for the CX2 and the DX7's will be filled by Tuesday, 90% of these have already left our shipping dock. We will have large open stock for both starting Tuesday. All orders will be filled AHEAD of Schedule! ! !

If you are still interested in the DX7 the free-shipping cut off is going to be Friday the 8th.
Thanks,
MYRCS

Wow, I can't wait to get my hands on my CX2, now I have to see if Santa Claus is going to get me the DX7, LOL

got it friday and LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!!! yay! im still on the original blades too hehe. the radio is sweet,no stupid metal antenna is awesome! now im gonna sit back and wait for a way to get this radio to work with my CP so i can master that baby


the 5th channel...what 'add-ons' is that good for ?:S

*edit make sure your 4in1s are taped down properly from the factory!