Articles by Tony
Are your hands shaking yet? I know mine were at this stage. The instruction I had was to spool it up and jump up to 3’ in the air. This is WRONG! If you do it, you will crash because the helicopter will end up surprising you and you will panic.
One of the most important things now is face...
Okay, we have your helicopter setup, you have gotten some practice on the sim, you have the perfect place to practice, now we need to setup the flying space. The best way I have ever found to learn how to control your helicopter is by box training. What is box training you ask? Box training is...
As I have learned how to fly, I have found that one surface is great while the other one is not so great. But, the not so great surface for learning how to hover is perfect for learning forward flight.
When you are first starting out learning how to fly, you will be doing a lot of scooting...
The next thing you need to do is make sure your blades are tracking correctly. When you look at the blades from the side, you should only see one blade. If you see two you need to adjust your tracking. Be sure to mark the blades so you can see the difference between the two so you know what one...
Wait, What? Sunglasses? Yup, that's right. This is a tool I never leave home without. If you ever fly and end up running the aircraft into the sun, you will lose it, quickly. But, let’s say that it's cloudy, only I still wear glasses as long as it's not dim. The glasses I wear are polarized...
The most important thing you can purchase besides the Flight Sim is training gear. When you were a kid you had training wheels on your bike. This helicopter is no different. Training gear will keep your helicopter from tipping over. If you panic and chop the throttle, you have a better chance of...
Okay, so you have practiced on the sim and think you are ready to go flying. Well, I would like to step back and do a couple things to your helicopter so that it will fly a little easier. If you panic and slam the stick down, it won't drop like a rock.
The first thing you will want to do is...
Okay, you have your helicopter and you are ready to fly, but realize you don't know how the helicopter will react once you get it in the air or even on liftoff. The most stressful time of flying for me is the maiden flight. And when you don't know how to anticipate something going wrong on the...
Hello everyone, for those of you that don’t know me, my name is Tony and I am the owner and founder of www.Rc-Help.com. I have been in the RC world since 1994 but I have only been flying for a couple years. During this time, I have tried to find every way I could to learn how to fly. I have...
Hey everyone. I thought that I would make up a list of everything that someone would need to get into the great hobby of flying R/C Helicopters. Electric, or Battery powered is far easier than nitro. With a nitro helicopter, the ambient temperature has very little effect on how it runs. But...
If there is one helicopter that taught me how to fly, not only upright, but inverted as well, it's this little guy right here! I had been trying for quite some time to fly inverted, and on April 18th, 2011, I did it for the first time with this helicopter. Now the ending was not that great...
Just one of those days when you want to get out and fly. And thanks to this mcpx, it can take crashes and go right back up into the air! Just don't forget to push that main gear back up! And don't step in the cow pies! lmao.
In the past, I have had people as why the mCP-X starts and stops abruptly. This is what is known as "cogging" and it's caused by the magnets inside the main motor against the stater. This is completely normal and I assure you, there is nothing wrong with your helicopter. It just needs these...