Looking for the right chopper?
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Looking for the right chopper?
Hello chopper guys, I'm an airplane guy and looking to get into electric choppers. I saw a pop up add on RCU for an electric heli called Shogun 400 made by Evo Flight. I'm just wondering if this is a good heli to start with. If its not then what should I buy. Things I like are quality parts with good service if something breaks. I have no idea how to set up a heli so good instructions is another must. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
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RE: Looking for the right chopper?
The 400 is definitely the one to get but it is more expensive because you need to buy all the seperate components. I would recommend buying the complete kit with radio if you can get a good price.
The cheepo all in 1 micros (eg. dragonfly, aerohawk, etc) are generally a bit harder to fly and dont behave well in any kind of wind however you can usually repair them with a bit of sticky tape, epoxy or super glue so they are very cheap to learn on until you get the hang of flying in 6 degrees of freedom.
I would say that most of the people here would have started off on an el'cheepo and would usually get enough skills within 6 months or so to move on to something better.
If you just want to see how hard it is, download FMS (its free) and make up a parallel cable for your rc controller and use ppjoy to set it up as a standard joystick (assuming you have a buddy connector)...
A friend of mine replaced the pots in his old attack4 and wired directly to a joystick port. This way he just configures it normally in windows and doesnt need to switch the controller on to use it...
The cheepo all in 1 micros (eg. dragonfly, aerohawk, etc) are generally a bit harder to fly and dont behave well in any kind of wind however you can usually repair them with a bit of sticky tape, epoxy or super glue so they are very cheap to learn on until you get the hang of flying in 6 degrees of freedom.
I would say that most of the people here would have started off on an el'cheepo and would usually get enough skills within 6 months or so to move on to something better.
If you just want to see how hard it is, download FMS (its free) and make up a parallel cable for your rc controller and use ppjoy to set it up as a standard joystick (assuming you have a buddy connector)...
A friend of mine replaced the pots in his old attack4 and wired directly to a joystick port. This way he just configures it normally in windows and doesnt need to switch the controller on to use it...
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RE: Looking for the right chopper?
quote]ORIGINAL: jbalat
If you just want to see how hard it is, download FMS (its free) and make up a parallel cable for your rc controller and use ppjoy to set it up as a standard joystick (assuming you have a buddy connector)...
A friend of mine replaced the pots in his old attack4 and wired directly to a joystick port. This way he just configures it normally in windows and doesn't need to switch the controller on to use it...
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Can you give us some more info on how to do this? I am interested in using a simulator to learn with, but haven't bought a radio yet, so I was wondering if I could just buy an old elcheapo radio to use with a simulator as you suggested?
If you just want to see how hard it is, download FMS (its free) and make up a parallel cable for your rc controller and use ppjoy to set it up as a standard joystick (assuming you have a buddy connector)...
A friend of mine replaced the pots in his old attack4 and wired directly to a joystick port. This way he just configures it normally in windows and doesn't need to switch the controller on to use it...
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Can you give us some more info on how to do this? I am interested in using a simulator to learn with, but haven't bought a radio yet, so I was wondering if I could just buy an old elcheapo radio to use with a simulator as you suggested?