i been trying to get my piccolo to fly, i keep on replace parts that break, but cant realy get it in the air more than 5 sec, before i crash it. Does it take a lone time to learn how to fly it. Can any one give me some tips that might help.



thanks

1) Read and memorize Paul's site!!
http://www.pgoelz.com/piccolo1.html

2) In my experience, I had very little luck flying until I got the double arm anti rotation link. The stock one is far too soft to keep the alignment.

The Piccofly simulator is VERY good!

Cliff

Tadd,
You definately need to practice on a simulator first. There is a freeware one called Pre-Flight that is fairly realistic. I practiced everyday for a week on this simulator, and was hovering my Hummingbird fairly well the week after. Pre-Flight lets you adjust the simulation speed, so you can start out slower than real speed, and gradually increase the simulation speed as you progress. I found that after practicing with the simulator set to twice normal speed, hovering the real thing was fairly easy. Pre-Flight will work with a PC joystick (I used a logitec rumblepad), or you can get an interface for your transmitter off Ebay, but make sure you get one that emulates a joystick. Some of the interfaces on Ebay only work with FMS, which is not a very good simulator for learning helis. If you want a commercial simulator, the PicoFly is fairly cheap, and I have seen good reports about it. Any time you spend with a simulator will save you a lot in spare parts.

Jeff

you can download Pre-Flight here
http://users.bigpond.net.au/atv/PFMOREI.HTM

Also don't do what i did and try to hover less than a foot off the ground ( you would not believe how many people have admitted to this) you have to be a good two feet up to get out of the ground effect and two feet away from anything else around the helicopter!

Good luck

LOL...Yep, count me in that group. Finally just said "to heck with it, I wanna see this thing go up"- and as soon as it got over two feet things smoothed out a lot, and I finally learned to hover. Now if I could only get the nose-in part down

Yup get the double arm anti rotation link. I broke mine a month ago and refused to fly without it. I got the new one yesterday and got flying again. I never did any simulator stuff. Haven't found one yet that is responsive (quick) enough. Also to hover in FMS and others all you have to do is push the throttle up and hold it - what a joke. I have CMS V10 but have yet to get it running on XP. I can get the Multiplex 4000 TX recognized in CMS but not in FMS, doh. Anyway I put the X training gear on. scooted around then just went for it. Without the double arm anti rotation link, your trim will always change as it will not keep your head in the same place. Once I got to where I could somewhat control it I just used a 12" piece of carbon arrow shaft ($1 at archery store) across the width of the landing gear to keep from tipping over sideways. Get your blade tracking perfect also! Hang in there.

were can i get the double arm anti rotation link?

http://gallery.bcentral.com/Gallery/...=2&sortOrder=0

Warren makes them

Helihobby also sells them

www.helihobby.com go under pic upgrades.

Also the aluminum hub from either is good too. You won't lose your head bearings.