Just got into the hobby about 2 months ago. Bought a coaxial to fly with my 3 yr old grandson at WalMart. Loved the idea off flying a heli and took to the web to see what there was bigger and more powerful. Was shocked to see the variety of helis and configurations.
Found John Salt's web site on flight training and advice on a good beginner's serious collective pitch. So I bought the Blade 450 3D and training wheels. Went to the local college parking lot in a corner and tried ground-scrapping forward, backward, left and right maneuvers. Didn't have much luck, even with dumbed down curves and D/R & expo.
So found a fun fky on a Saturday about 1 1/2 hours away and brought my heli. A great heli guy helped set it up and flew it for me to show it was set up right. Was told I need to buy a sim and fly my model 100 times before bringing my Blade outside again. So I've been on the sim for the past 3 weeks with great difficulty until I found on a forum about setting up the Phoenix to use my xmtr settings and inhibit the sim's override settings. Now I can at least hover without crashing, but still need to work on fine finger control.
Bought an mCPx BL thinking I could practice CP hovering in the house over the winter where 450 outdoor flying would be harder to fit in. But crashed the micro first day at the local football field. So decided to fix with upgrade parts (discovered microHeli aluminum head parts and CF frame and tail). Have rebuilt the micro all the while learning about all the heli parts, how they go together, and what they're called.
I've been all over utube and other forums watching videos on building, reparing and upgrade advice videos and posts.
That us how I found Tony's video's and now his forum.
I still have a ton to learn and lots of practice to do in order to get my 450 into regular, consistent hover. I'm commited to learn and get good at this heli flying hobby. Hope to be doing some basic 3D by the end of next summer.
-Doug
Found John Salt's web site on flight training and advice on a good beginner's serious collective pitch. So I bought the Blade 450 3D and training wheels. Went to the local college parking lot in a corner and tried ground-scrapping forward, backward, left and right maneuvers. Didn't have much luck, even with dumbed down curves and D/R & expo.
So found a fun fky on a Saturday about 1 1/2 hours away and brought my heli. A great heli guy helped set it up and flew it for me to show it was set up right. Was told I need to buy a sim and fly my model 100 times before bringing my Blade outside again. So I've been on the sim for the past 3 weeks with great difficulty until I found on a forum about setting up the Phoenix to use my xmtr settings and inhibit the sim's override settings. Now I can at least hover without crashing, but still need to work on fine finger control.
Bought an mCPx BL thinking I could practice CP hovering in the house over the winter where 450 outdoor flying would be harder to fit in. But crashed the micro first day at the local football field. So decided to fix with upgrade parts (discovered microHeli aluminum head parts and CF frame and tail). Have rebuilt the micro all the while learning about all the heli parts, how they go together, and what they're called.
I've been all over utube and other forums watching videos on building, reparing and upgrade advice videos and posts.
That us how I found Tony's video's and now his forum.
I still have a ton to learn and lots of practice to do in order to get my 450 into regular, consistent hover. I'm commited to learn and get good at this heli flying hobby. Hope to be doing some basic 3D by the end of next summer.
-Doug
