rchelipilot10/30

I'm looking to purchase my first 6 channel heli and I need some advice. I'm a pretty good pilot and this will be my 5th rc helicopter. My last one was a falcon 40 (4 channel fixed pitch) and it's 2 1/2 years old and is starting to "die." As of right now I think I'm going to get an esky belt cp v2, but I'm open to any suggestions. does anybody have any insight as to what I should buy?

FILE IFR

Radio: Futaba, JR or Spektrum will be fine (all have the capacity of a 120 degree swash, CCPM feature).


Heli: Why get an Esky heli with your experience?? Get an Align or HDX heli..... 450 sized and you'll be happy about it.
The linkage mechanics of the Esky....[:'(].

midntpumkin

i would also suggest a 450 class heli , align , xcopter , or exi .

rchelipilot10/30

ok thanks and should I be looking to buy a barebone kit and then put on the electronics or should I look to get a fully assembled copter (ex. exceed rc raptor g2) and I've been using xheli.com to make my purchases do you suggest a different website?

rchelipilot10/30

And I found this kit HDX 450SE-V4 BSX on helidirect.com...does this include electronics? does this look like a good kit?

midntpumkin

xheli has a nice all metal exi450 , but to get started i just would order the hobby king 450 as its inexpencive and you could get everything you need from them less radio. my radio cost as much as 2 and a half HK450 were fully equiped with servos, esc, gyro and motor [:-]
this is what i did , i orderd 4 hk 450 and made one work with everything , now as a noob at this, i figured the cost of replacement parts were more than the kits. so it was a no brainer to get spare kits

rchelipilot10/30

thanks for the advice that looks like a good kit to go with, but all my previous heli's have been ready to fly so I need some help as to which electronics I should get, and which ones I need to fly it? at $28 on hobbycity.com the hk450 seems like a good avenue for me. Will this be a good heli for me to learn 3-d controls on?

midntpumkin

so far i am just doing some basic flying , i am still using the plastic blades but have the carbon fiber for when i want to go to the next step. i am using the futaba 7c radio, and all my parts are from hk , so far so good.
my list of parts
http://www.hobbypartz.com/83p-2200mah-3s1p-111-20c.html
http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/s...idproduct=2165
http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/s...dproduct=10113
http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/s...idproduct=6387
http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/s...idproduct=8574
+ the heli ,this was alot more inexpencive than the radio http://www.amainhobbies.com/product_...617FS-Receiver
and i think thats it

midntpumkin

forgot the servo's x3
http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/s...ec_Micro_Servo
and i have one of these for the tail
http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/s...ec_Micro_Servo
and i think thats it

rchelipilot10/30

Thanks this is a lot of help! and I'm not so sure I want to spend that much on a remote so does a 6 channel remote work as well for me or do I need a 7 channel?

midntpumkin

I got the 7 because the futaba 6 with the amain coupon was the same price ....well close. I find the futaba easy to program and more to true 100% mixing and gyro gain . It's a investment , that's the way I see it and it makes programming a breeze .

rchelipilot10/30

could I get a cheap one like this [link=http://www.xheli.com/radiosystem.html]http://www.xheli.com/radiosystem.html[/link] or do I need to make the investment? IF so I was looking and I will probably try to get one cheaper on ebay

FILE IFR

You'll need a computer every time you want to change something in the program... Forget it IMO.

Make the investment of a good radio. "Buy Cheap, Buy Twice"

rchelipilot10/30

okay so I think I'm going to get the spektrum DX6i from [link=http://www.amainhobbies.com/product_info.php/cPath/2_384_402/products_id/20466/n/Spektrum-DX6i-6-Channel-Full-Range-Radio-System-w-o-Servos]amainhobbies.com [/link] for $200. Does this look like it should be worth the money? I got the idea for from this guy from xheli's youtube channel in his vids. I was checkin out his vid on building a 450 size heli

midntpumkin

the dx6i should be fine , thats what i was going to use but decided to keep that for my planes .

rchelipilot10/30

ok thanks again for the help! and lastly when i get my shipment and start to build are there any good webpages or videos a can refer to in order to stay on track?

rchelipilot10/30

and I am going to use a flight simulator with it and was confused for a little whilecause of the whole windows xp discontinued thing, but I sorted that out by checking out some "nuttcaze's" videos on his youtube channel

John_jrp3

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you can get this for 199 and be done for a while. http://www.xheli.com/ne2ve6che450.html for as cheap as it is u can afford to upgrade any problems u may have.