please someone help i need all i can get....i bought a blade cp e flite and i am trying to hover please help??????

Do a google search for Radd's School of rotary flight. Follow the instructions to the "T" and you will be flying in a few day's.

thanks i sure will!

in a few days?? Nice to dream !! Maybe with a coaxial - but with motor driven tail rotor - only hovering you can realistically expect to do is with the motor off and holding it in your hand two feet off the ground.

About.Com tells it like it is - this is not an RC helicopter designed for beginners. Some experience with more basic models, flight simulators, or training with an experienced RC pilot is strongly recommended before attempting to fly the Blade CP. You'll need an understanding of collective, tail, elevator, and aileron controls for helicopter flight. The patience to make sensitive adjustments and quick response during flight are also needed. As cool as aerobatics and inverted flight may be, recommend holding off on the Aerobatic Enhancement Kit until you have basic flight control mastered.

I'd recommend a coaxial helicopter first - a simulator second - a variable pitch tail rotor third. The money you think you saved starting with a motor driven tail rotor will be very quickly used up buying replacement parts - again and again and again. I might also suggest doing some reading. "Taking Off With RC Helicopters - FAQ's 101" is free for download. See the sticky beginning of this forum "FAQ' 101 heli book - free download" for details.

Have a great training -

Jack

If it is your first heli experience you may be humbled a bit, but it can be learned.

If you insist on learning on it, try this:

Be Sure the Heli is set up to fly- fighting a bad setup will make it worse and nearly impossible to learn.
Spare parts- have the common items, blades, grips, feather shaft, etc., on hand. Waiting for parts will prolong the learning curve.
Good weather or indoors- fighting (correcting for) wind will really scare you if you can't even hover.
Several batteries- STICK TIME -you'll want to fly as much per session as possible. Waiting an hour between flights or till tomorrow will make it more difficult to improve.
Find a large area, smooth surface, no obstructions- this way you can let it "drift" and have time to make slight control(s) inputs to learn model response and add control trim as required.
Go sloooow- you will likely not be buzzing around anytime soon, but you should be able to hover a "complete battery pack" without landing after an hour or so of sick time.

HAVE FUN- if it is not enjoyable, step back and reconsider.

Just a few ideas, not the definative list.

ditch the Blade CP, put it on a a shelf, sell it, stomp on it, whatever, then get a Honey Bee FP, you'll save your self from going crazy.

The tail motor isnt the problem with the BCP, it's biggest problem is it's so twitchy, defiantly not for a noob.

I learned on a Blade CPP in Iraq and within about a month I was doing FF. It was hard and you definately need low or no wing to learn with these 200 size birds outdoors. Good luck. A 450 would be a little easier to learn on.

I am currently teaching myself with a Blade CP Pro. Sure, it's hard...but not impossible. The advice earlier about good vs. bad set-up is definitely great advice. After having crashed a few times against the kitchen floor and cabinets, I had to take the heli apart which forced me to familiarize myself with it's parts and mechanical working. Do this for sure. You will learn priceless hands on knowledge this way about how it all works and what the affects will be of moving this that way, that this way, etc. You will learn what huge effects small adjustments can make on an RC helicopter. Also, I did read through the RADD's school of flight when I first got started and I have learned by loosely following the lesson plans there. Also, I never used training gear at all because I didn't want to start learning that way, only to change the flight characteristics after taking them off. Anyone who says that you absolutely can not learn on a Blade CP is wrong. It's most certainly not even close to the easy way of going about it. But trust me, it is possible. I can fly around my house with relative ease now, but it has taken alot of tweaking, frustration and a few parts here and there. I am really looking forward to stepping up to the Blade 400 soon, and I figure that once I get it set up, it'll be an absolute joy to fly compared to the CP Pro, so in a way all the better, right? Doing it will be a long difficult road, and may be too much for some, but learning this way will develop the discipline needed for such a challenging hobby. Take my advise and stick with it. I thought I was never gonna get there but now it's all second nature and I've never had more fun than I'm having now.

Sorry but this is a big misconception out there....

A FP heli is NOT any easier to fly than a CP heli. A HBFP is no easier to learn how to hover than a Blade CP. They are BOTH very twitchy micro heli's!

Ok now the biggest difference is the HBFP is MUCH easier to repair and cheaper to fix as well.

You CAN learn on the small micro's but if you really want to save some frustration, get a 450 or larger size heli.

Skarn

no one said the FP was easier, thats a misconception, the FP is just as hard as a cp, the difference is, the FP is A LOT cheaper to learn on because they dont shatter when you crash. A cp blade scuff can cost plenty to fix in new blades, spindle, possibly a main shaft, down time, re-set up. etc etc. An FP you pick it up straiten blades and off you go again, they dont break as easily as a CP...