what is the Headinglock module for pro piccolo?? is necesary for fly or only for aerobatics?? is suplied with de standar kit - Pro piccolo??

I`m newest in helis and i want to buy a pro picolo , but is a good heli??

please help me!!!

http://www.hobby-lobby.com/piccolo_pro.htm

tanks!!

The heading lock module for a piccoboard is an improvement to the gyro ability. As I understand it, it improves the heli's ability to keep the tail where you put it. Also as I understand it, going with seperate components and a true head hold gyro is much more stable.
Go read [link=http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/Best_indoor_electric_heli%3F/m_1408042/tm.htm]this recent post[/link] for my descritpion of what to buy.
Also on that page are three links to pages that have a ton of good information for the piccolo, and much that is useable for micro helis in general.

ok , thanks i just try a a pro picolo , with a picoloboard pro.......to begin......

now the problem is the batterys the litium i so much expensive but...... its better?? or is better 3 baterys in ni-mh, the chaerge of litium i s so fast than Ni-Mh , the weithg is the same??

sorry for bad english!

Don't worry about the language. If I don't understand the first time, just try again and we will work through the communication difficulty.
Now, have you purchased anything yet? The Piccolo Pro is not a very good beginner helicopter. Most of the Piccolo community agrees that the Fixed Pitch versions are a much bbetter choice to learn on. And you canupgrade to Collective Pitch like the Piccolo Pro later. The FP machines are much more robust. The break less often, and the repairs are less expensive. The Piccolo Pro used fragile blades, and the mechanics are easier to break. And SO much more expensive to repair.
If you HAVE already purchased a Piccolo Pro, you can downgrade it to a Fixed Pitch version for much less money that you will spend in replacement blades learning on a Pro.
Definitely go with Lithium Polymer batteries. LiPo batteries have a higher energy density. The give much better performance than NiCad or NiMH packs. Get a LiPo charger and 2 LiPo packs. They are not "fast" charge batteries, but 2 packs give me more flight time than I can fit into a normal day.

ops!, i just purchased a pro piccolo with a ni-mh bats!! ¨ the lipo bats i so expensive and require a new charger so expensive too!, and i just buy the last month a Peak-5 jamara to charge my ni-mh.......

i`ve to 15 years experience whit acros and fun fly, and gliders.
for these reason i try a pro picolo,i think that can learn to fly helis faster than other person.....but is esasy to crash
the picolo if uses a X to learn¿
I have some friens that fly normaly nitro helis that can help me.....

at last.....any fligth sim to learn???
Do you know if i can make acable to conect my jr 378?

thanks!

I said this in the previous post:

If you HAVE already purchased a Piccolo Pro, you can downgrade it to a Fixed Pitch version for much less money that you will spend in replacement blades learning on a Pro.

It is true. Buying the parts to make your pro use a fixed pitch head and blades will be cheaper by far than the cost of replacemant blades and collective pitch mechanics that you will break learning on CP. I am not saying that it is impossible to learn on CP. Just very expensive.
I suspect that your nitro buddies will see you struggle with the Piccolo Pro, declare it unflyable and try to get you to buy a nitro heli. These bigger models ARE more stable. But you cannot fly them indoors.
Your experience with planes will help to some degree, in that you are familiar with a transitter box and the behavior of the entire control system. But it does not translate into how to fly a heli. A good sim using your transmitter as the control, or a dummy transmitter box would help with that.
All that I have read and all the experience that the piccolo board members, many of them outstanding RC enthusiasts, have lead to a very clear conclusion. Learn to fly a piccolo on the FP version, and upgrade to CP after you have gone through the worst of the learning curve.
Don't sweat it on the batteries. NiMH will be useable. You will just have a smaller performance envelope. A little more weight. Less duration. But Many, many people have learned using NiCad and NiMH batteries. After you have stick time, then decide if you need better batteries.
From the 'recent post' I refered to above I listed a [link=http://www.ikarus-modellbau.de/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=138982&page=0&view=collap sed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1]few[/link] - [link=http://www.pgoelz.com/piccolo1.html]good[/link] - [link=http://www.dream-models.com/h/flying-index.html]links[/link] that should help get you going. Go read them. The first is to the welcome page on the Ikarus board. On that board you will find posts all centered around the Piccolo. The last is a page discussing how to learn to fly any micro-heli. Go do more reading.
Good luck. Ask questions. Let us know how you do.

ok.i`ve recently a simulator and i control so good helis......i can make tonels inverted fly etc...
with treethe in fms, but i think that is more dificult in reality.
The problem is that i buy by email and i prefer try a litle befor to buy nothing more)is posible that first day i crash, but if i buy now a new collector to downground it take a week to recive it, can`t wait more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :0

i wil explain my first flyng day in few day......


lots of thanks!!!

Hi - a mate bought me a hummingbird micro heli for christmas - learned to fly heli's on it by wearing it out - the upshot of this is that my motor seems worn out after about 50 flights (hear that this is par for the course) - so what's the answer/replace/upgrade/accept that this is life as we know it in the dark world of indoor heli bashing (and bashing it was for a while)?