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| Thread ID: 128476 | 2012-12-22 07:21:00 | Remote Control Helicopters | Strommer (42) | PC World Chat |
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| 1319779 | 2012-12-24 19:48:00 | I have a Syma AH-64s009 R/C Helicopter. It is sitting on the shelf in the garage after an incident with the end of a door which took a piece out of the main rotor blade. Unable to source a replacement one although there are spare ones listed in the manual with part numbers. Found it rather hard to keep it in trim. The copter would always start slowly spinning one way or the other. If you stopped it spinning it would last for about 30 seconds then start slowly spinning. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1319780 | 2012-12-26 00:28:00 | I had a Jaycar/syma heli: it flew beautifly. In the end it was too easy & got boring so I moved onto better heli's. It could fly hands off for a while, but would allways start to drift. Just the nature of the beast. WL toys & Syma make very good mini heli's. Very good for the price. There are now far too many fake Syma's unfortunately, some of the fakes are pretty unreliable. Some of small Heli's from jaycar are OK-but will cost a bit more: get them to test it for you 1st if possible. For a first heli, you want co-axial: one set of blades above the other. See if spare parts & spare batts are available & in stock. Jaycar do have spare for their heli's for a $50 heli.. -some heli's may need constant adjustments to the trim. Its a cheap heli,it will start to drift around. . Even the VERY expensive helis need alot if constant user input to keep them in the air -dont expect it to fly in any sort of wind, dont expect the batt to give any more thean 5-8 minutes runtime. -dont expect it to fly itself. They do need some skill. You''l need to practice. But the co-ax heli's are really easy to learn on. -dont expect a $30 heli to fly like a $200 heli . :-) |
sroby (11519) | ||
| 1319781 | 2012-12-26 07:17:00 | No helichopters here, I'm been shootin' them there varmints. Frikking birds. :D |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1319782 | 2012-12-26 07:40:00 | When I use to fly radio controlled racing planes, costing between 3-4 K each, had a couple of mates that also flew real RC helicopters, not those idiotic toys that places like Noel Leeming and dick smiths peddle off -- Some of the stunts they could do it was WTF-- A helicopter cant do that :eek: :eek: Considering they cost several thousands of $$ theres a LOT of time and money spent on NOT crashing. If you get bored, you're not trying hard enough. I had a go with one of my mates ones, didn't take to long to get used to flying around the field straight and level, keeping in mind I flew High Speed racers . Then he took the controls off me ( after he got bored with me fly straight) and said try this, if you can do it you can keep the chopper, you break it you pay for it -- then quickly flipping it upside down he started cutting the grass with the blades :eek: -- My response is unprintable. :D Wanna see how the pros give these things a workout --- Its ALL REAL, no trick photography helicopter-low-altitude-aerobatics (www.flixxy.com) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1319783 | 2012-12-26 08:45:00 | If you get bored, you're not trying hard enough. Nah, if you get bored youve quickly reached the level of what a $30 coax heli can do. They can barely fly outside, so all you can do with a cheap heli is fly circles around the lounge. That gets boring, quickly. Also unless you have really great vision, small heli's are too hard to see when they fly (get blown) downfeild outside: you loose orientation, cant see what direction its pointing. RC prices have absolutely plummeted in the last few years. You dont have to spend thousands for a real 3D heli anymore. $250ish will get you one of these(still need a radio though) www.youtube.com $400 will get a much bigger 450, everything included : these actually fly OK , from what Ive seen at the local feild. www.hobbystation.co.nz If youre serious, buy a $30 heli, learn the basics , then upgrade to a real/better heli. |
sroby (11519) | ||
| 1319784 | 2012-12-26 09:23:00 | Yep prices have dropped. I was talking about when I flew models. The racing engines I used, on their own were roughly $1000 - $1200 each. Similar engines these days are roughly $700 - $800 ( just looked them up) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1319785 | 2012-12-26 18:51:00 | Got a few from china, pretty much the same as the NZ product but cheaper . Wow - New Zealand product, I did not know we made them here in NZ . I'll have to put that up on my website . But seriously, my grandson got one last year, he is 10 and he is really good with it . I tried a couple of times, but I could not control it . I am amazed by the punishment they can take . (notice no one knows or mentions the brand - years ago it was a Lincoln toy!) |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1319786 | 2012-12-26 20:00:00 | Wow - New Zealand product, I did not know we made them here in NZ. I'll have to put that up on my website. But seriously, my grandson got one last year, he is 10 and he is really good with it. I tried a couple of times, but I could not control it. I am amazed by the punishment they can take. (notice no one knows or mentions the brand - years ago it was a Lincoln toy!) Boy! Oh Boy! :D ;) |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1319787 | 2012-12-29 06:39:00 | Got ours with Flybuys so no financial hit! The first one was one the small cheaper ones you could use indoors this was good value until daughter decided to rip of a rotor in the lampshade...lol Second one 3D Aviator retails $100 from Noel Leemings usage outdoors with No wind is best...yea find a day like that...lol. Not sure whats happened (I was not piloting) but looks like the rotor shaft got bent sometime in a less garcious landing, nice bit of shimmer developed at low speed, max thrust great fun. Value for money? Well with rechargable batteries and no financial outlaying buying through flybuys...ok but would I buy one? $100 better spent on a remote controlled car. |
coldfront (15814) | ||
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