I'm hoping for a bit of help -
I am a beginner but fly a coaxial heli well and upgraded to a e-razor250.
Equipment checks out fine, but when I take off, it seems to veer one way or the other (or forward), and I try to compensate and it isn't enough to help. I power it down within a couple seconds to avoid a crash, becauseafter a few seconds I am moving the stick all over the place and it is of little use. Is this a gyro issue? On the ground the servos/linkages seem to work just fine.
Thanks in advance
Daniel
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Daniel

for starters it is a small heli very different to your co-ax and therefore is going to be a lot more twitchy than even a 450 size machine! it has a lot less rotor disc area to stabilise on!!

you also need to pay special attention to battery placement to prevent imbalance!

a good analogy of hovering a heli is balancing a marble on a sheet of glass, trying to keep it near the centre of the sheet!

the other major thing to bear in mind is : correct set up can mean the difference between success and putting it on the shelf to be ignored! one of the important parts of set up is making sure the servo arms are perpendicular to the control rod and are placed on the servo at the half travel point (i.e. even amounts of movement either way)

personally i wouldn't go to something quite so small as your first CP heli but it is entirely personal choice, if you take your time and get sorted on all the stages of flying it should be a blast! if you can fly the tiddly one, the bigger ones will be a breeze to fly

hope this is of some help

Matty )<>}}}}}]@>

Hi Maddy,
Thank you for the tips. Ill pay attention to battery placement (had not done that) and see if Ican trim it out a bit and make sure all the control rods are adjusted. Jeez it is a world of difference compared to the coax.
I have a fairly small space to fly, which is why Ihad picked the 250 instead of 450 size. Wondering though whether Ishould go with something like the Walkera 4G3 micro. It seems to do well indoors or outdoors (I am in Seattle so rainy day practice indoors would be nice). Do you think flying that heli would be about same level of difficulty as the 250? Thanks for your thoughts, Daniel

personally, i think you'll be letting yourself open to a whole world of despair and frustration going any smaller than you have already!

a lot of peeps on this site would even say you were being optimistic by starting on a 450! in a nutshell: the smaller the rotor disc, the quicker it's going to move around thereby shortening your reaction time allowed to correct it!!

if you've got the cash, go for it! you can never have too many helis or proper bags (not purses), or watches, or cars, or ...........

Matty )<>}}}}}]@>