I ordered a set yesterday...did i make a mistake?[&o]

im learning to hover yet on the CP and keep hitting the edge of my blades on the floor causing that film to peel off, i figured the plasti blades would be just like the wood without that film wrapper on em, but i saw somewhere they were no good...

i do however have the areobatic motor and some eflite carbon fiber blades i got for 17 bucks from the lhs[:-] (they were marked wrong hehe) anyway I dont think im ready for these yet(and they are not installed), or will it still be ok to learn on? I fly inside a decent size car shop with a nice and slick floor, most of my crashes are just a sideways slide down the floor. i know keep it in the box lol but people are watching me[8D] but im dead serious in mastering this thing, and from now on it will be full concentration inside the box!

so basically what im asking is are the plasti blades recommended by you pros to us n00bs :S?

I got them and love them. I practice in my living room and have had a few run ins with the couch, etc...

The blades are in great shape. The worst thing that happened to them so far is when I turned of the TX before unplugging the battery. I just had a brain fart and the blades actually hit the flybar!

Oh, well. A little massaging to push the bent plastic back into place and it is all good.

I hope you enjoy them.

Karl

wow! did the bird go comepletely ape when you turned it off!?

lol anyone else... pros, cons, use the carbon blades??

Be carefule with the plastic blades as they are notorious for boom strikes that destroy the tail boom. Also with the plastic blades your are more likely the damage your rotor head assembly in crash or mishap, because the plastic blades won't break like the wood.

Most pilots find it cheaper ($8 @ www.helidirect.com) and easier to replace blades versus the other parts of the rotorhead.

I have to dito what heliTb said.....
I used plastic blades to learn tail in hover, they are indestructable however in any major blade strike you will trash stuff in your head. I broke 5 blade grips, bent 2 mainshafts, & bend my feathering spindle twice...also after a while the center hub & rotor head were pretty hammered too(alot of twist play in them). Oh and 3 booms strikes also. All within a my first few hours. Blades were still in great shape though.... I dont know how many sets of wood blades I would have ruined but I only fly them now and they will take a bit of a whack without being totally ruined... and some pretty badly smacked ones can be made to fly nice again if you doctor them up & get them balanced out real nice again.
I would advise to get some $8 blades that heliTB recomended and learn to dotor them up and balance them well. You will keep your heli flying better this way....I didnt realize the other damage that was happening to mine(bent spindle and mainshafts) and was try to fly a wounded bird alot, which doesnt fly right.
You may just want to go for the carbons if you are rarely crashing and just nicking the blades on stuff these days, I hear they are pretty durable, havent flow them myself.

oh boy...so are these plastic guys longer?? why blade strikes with plastic and not wood :S

and does the heli fly any different (for a n00b) with the eflite CF sym blades?

The plastic blades are very flexible and will actually bend down to the tail boom and cut it like a toothpick! However I learned to hover on the plastiblades and will vouch for their industructibility. They are great to learn basic hovering on, and for me a 3.99 tail boom versus 8 dollar blades was worth it. However once you have mastered basic hovering, ie. tail, side, and nose in, then switch to the carbon fibers. Take it easy on the carbon fibers when you first start out though, as they are a little more unstable than the plasti's due to the lack in weight.

Oh yeah, and on the note of the syms vs flat bottoms, I learned on syms and it was not too hard. It is better this way due to the fact that when you are ready to go 3D, you do not have to learn the minute differences between the blades first. In other words, get used to the syms early on.

sounds good to me, i suppose ill grab a tail boom from the lhs(this way it wont break[&:])

It's too bad they have none in stock at all. I am also using the plastic flat bottoms and have crashed em pretty badly multiple times (every time). They are still in pretty good shape and I havnt gone through any booms or head assys yet. Skids well thats another story... Just ordered my superskids today to hopefully resolve that. But yea --}--{ has the right idea if you don't want to break a part stock up on it.

Also I am going to give this a shot and see how they work. http://www.urbanastronomer.com/blade...des/index.html

Just had my first crash with plastic blades and did more damage to my CP than I ever did with wooden blades. I'll never use plastic again. Too heavy, too much inertia. Even if you cut power in time, inertia still keeps 'em spinning at a pretty good rate. Like I said, never again. Too much potential for expensive damage.

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for sale 1 set of plastic blades for CP :-)

I took my plastics off today too. They survive but other things suffer because of it. Ive damaged my BCPP now where it vibrates so bad I cant fly it. The whole thing is coming apart this weekend.

Me too. Got to do pretty much an overhaul because of the plastics. New main shaft, new tail boom ,new head. All due to the plastic blades

ive done all that damage with wood blades too though, i still dont have them anyways

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I'm with the guys that won't use plastic blades. I've been flying for a tad over a year, I tried the plastic blades. On two crashes, they were the worst ever in a year. Last one, tail boom, roto head, blade grip and main shaft. Woodies are cheap, and it doesn't take two or three hours to replace blades, as opposed to tail boom, main shaft etc. I strickly use the woodies.
Always hard decisions in the heli world, should I or shouldn't I. The trick is not to crash, however we all do. Bummer.

Good luck guy,