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Originally Posted by RKDinOKC
That's the way learning to fly 4 channel RC helicopters has been...fly a little, crash, wait for parts, fix, repeat. Eventually they get to where even after the best efforts at repairs they fly horribly. On my 4th copter.
My first heli, a Blade mcx2 is a coaxial or double rotor with a 7.5 inch main rotor diameter. Learned flying off a big piece of cardboard in the middle of the living room floor.. Lots of crashes, it still flies, but the motors slide in the mount messing with the wrong drive gear and locks up the blades, and the skids fall off way too easily.
My second, a Blade 120SR fix pitch single rotor with 12.5 inch rotor diameter. Big enough to relocate training flights to the two car garage, and outside on calm days. Put a bunch of flights, crashes and parts on it. The battery hold on the frame broke from sliding the batteries in and out so much to charge that it is not flying now.
My third, a Blade mSRx fixed pitch with 7 inch rotor span and electronic stabilization instead of a flybar. I thought because it was smaller I could fly it in the living room. Not so, way to twitchy and the electronic control would mess up and send it off so fast I couldn't even correct before hitting the wall in the garage let alone try to fly in the living room.
Fourth is a Blade mSR. It is fixed pitch and also has a 7in rotor span but uses a flybar or mechanical stabilization instead of electronic. Been able to fly in the living room without bashing the walls.
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Yeah, I'm told that ill know its time to move up to a better and faster plane when this one is more glue than foam.
I'm just kinda peeved that the majority of the damage wasn't even my fault. Parts are pretty reasonable, thinking about just grabbing a new fuselage as well. This thing freaks the gator out bad.
I can't do rotor flight.......I suck bad......