RC aeroplane

[Kelburn]

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=110456306

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=110325491

am thinking of getting either of these. Would anyone recommend it or not recommend it?

[creator2003]

id get the chopper if it was me but they do look cheap ones ,and youd want to know that parts where avalible for them at cheap prices...because you are bound to crash

[Naki]

I've investigated buying the same chopper - from reports I read it is very difficult to fly - for the smaller RC choppers you need to look at ones that have two main rotors that rotate diffrent directions on the same shaft - my father has one and it is fairly stable unlike the one you are looking at which I understand is very unstable.

Not sure about the 182 - do some googling you might come up with saome user reports on it.

[HardCorePawn]

bit flasher than the one I saw demo'd the other night at the PCF club meeting... was something like this:

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Toys-models/Radio...319414.htm?p=12

Pretty cool, and I'm thinking about getting one for the office

Having a look on TMe, I had to wonder why a lot of the pics for Mini Helicopters seem to include swimsuit models??? Not that I'm complaining, but it does seem a little O.T.T.

[ardypilot]

I saw demo'd the other night at the PCF club meeting...

The one in Panmure? You go to that? I might come along if there are some other NZFF'ers there.

And Kelburn- I think RC planes are pretty hard to fly for beginners. I know so many people who have crashed and ruined their new planes then compleatly lost interest in the hobby- sorry to be a downer!

[Naki]

Yea its tough to learn - trust me I've tried (i might have another go when time and money permits) - my father has been flying RC planes for over 40 years and use to fly the real stuff - reckons its easier to fly a Cessna or Piper than a RC planes - some of the newer plastic backyard RC a/c out there might not fly to pieces like the balsa a/c when terrra firma gets in the way. Generally the bigger the RC a/c is the easier it is to fly but then costs also blow out.

[HardCorePawn]

QUOTE(Trolly @ Jul 30 2007, 08:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I saw demo'd the other night at the PCF club meeting...

The one in Panmure? You go to that? I might come along if there are some other NZFF'ers there.

And Kelburn- I think RC planes are pretty hard to fly for beginners. I know so many people who have crashed and ruined their new planes then compleatly lost interest in the hobby- sorry to be a downer!

Yeah I try to pop along and see what guys are up to... Its kinda odd being one of the youngest at 31! But often the guys have some interesting bits and pieces that they have found (thats how I found out about the NL2000 scenary), and the numbers at recent meetings have been pretty good (last one we had around 15 or so)... and we usually have at least 3 or 4 people bring computers along... I am thinking about taking mine along next time...

Some of the guys are fairly serious cockpit builders... one of them is busy rebuilding his 747 cockpit coz they bought our some better panels! we're talking thousands of $$$

[Timmo]

Those little choppers are a bit junk....my mate got given one: Basically you can only control the speed of the main rotor and the power going to the tail rotor so you can only go up or down and will spend most of that time spinning around and around....the pots controlling the speed of engines only have about 4 or 5 settings so its hard to fine tune/calibarate the two to get a decent hover.....even if you do you cant control the cyclic so dont really have any control over where the helo is going (which sucks if you are trying to fly in an enclosed area)

Further to that, the tail rotor is very large so you need to take off from a hard smooth surface to avoid the TR hitting the ground....

[HardCorePawn]

QUOTE(Timmo @ Jul 31 2007, 12:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Further to that, the tail rotor is very large so you need to take off from a hard smooth surface to avoid the TR hitting the ground....

eh? the tail rotor on the one that I saw would have had a diameter less than an 5 cent coin... it was tiny... the whole helicopter was maybe 15cm from tip to tail.

As you say, it had no pitch control... so all you could really do was make it go up and down and yaw left or right... the guy said you had to put little weights (supplied) on the nose to make it move forward

[Timmo]

oh ok- Perhaps i should have said 'the tail rotor was very large on the model i used....obviously you could spin a smaller blade faster and get the same effect

[HardCorePawn]

QUOTE(Timmo @ Jul 31 2007, 01:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

oh ok- Perhaps i should have said 'the tail rotor was very large on the model i used....obviously you could spin a smaller blade faster and get the same effect

"was"... hahahahaha.... it was a cool toy, but thats all it was really, just a toy. It was definitely not meant for anything very serious.

Now these guys building 1/3 scale model RC things that you could probably put a small child in... well that's a whole different kettle of fish!

[ZKTOM]

Bloody fun these. I myself for fun purposes would go with the plane as it would be easier for a beginner than a chopper(HARRD!) for aerial videos i do with my uncle i like to fly a heli with all this wireless cameras and stuff to count cows???!!!

Good fun if you join a club i hear aswell.