walter23
Senior Heliman
Location: calgary ab
| You can buy a cable for your blade CP transmitter, or you can use a gamepad. I have a logitech rumblepad II that works great. The feeling isn't exactly the same as a real transmitter, but with the two analogue sticks on the gamepad (and for only $20-$30 or so) it's pretty good and really helps with coordination and orienting yourself properly.
The most expensive parts are no doubt the blades. You'll break a few pairs unless you get really good on the sim and take it very easy at first. I think I usually broke blades by being careless, but it's hard to avoid temptation to overextend yourself when you first get it off the ground. That might be lesson #1 
Other than main blades, I broke a tail blade, broke landing skids twice, bent two main shafts, broke the flybar control pushrods (trying to take them off, not even a crash), a servo (due to a bad crystal in the receiver, probably either defective from the factory or damaged in a crash, which commanded the servo to turn past it's maximum), the main frame, a spindle shaft (bent).
Most of my crashes could have been avoided by learning to hover in wide open spaces with no wind. I was practicing in small spaces, around vehicles and stuff, and had to ditch many times to avoid running into objects around me. Fly in a big field with no wind and make sure your heli is trimmed properly before you start (check the balance of the main rotor, the flybar paddle orientation and balance, and the swashplate should be 90 degrees from the main shaft in all orientations when the transmitter is turned on and all controls are neutral).
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Another blade CP first-time heli owner. |
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There you go your first crash is out of the way. The Blade CP is alot of fun and once you get good at that you will be amazed how fast you pick up on larger elecs or a gasser. CONGRATS to you let us know how it is going.
