Xircom
Veteran
Location: Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia
| originally the VE was built for those car racers or people entering the heli market economically, having already quite some 6 or 7 cell NiCADs around having already somewhere inexpensive full size servos, relatively cheap brushed motor and speed controller, that is my understanding, so it wasn't necessarily build for 3D, this explains also the high gearing as well. As said above, it was built in time, where there was not many brush-less motors around.
Where there is nothing wrong with all this (I also own one, it's a good heli I made my first steps with it) it needs a lot of upgrades to reach Logo or Lepton like flight capability, so in my honest opinion, I would not upgrade this any further (except the brushless motor upgrade), it's going to me more expensive than buying a new Logo or Lepton, and still you would not even reach it. But also for beginner I would not buy a Logo 3D or Lepton either...
Anyway I think it's a very stable and docile heli, very good to learn, cheap to crash and get spares anywhere, and actually what I did, is putting a Bell body around it for scale use, there are several nice FRP bodies made by JR.
There was some time ago also a "super voyager" introduced by JR, which had all the parts same as todays 3D electric helis (carbon frame etc.) but it never somehow made it on the market, JR came out with the Parkmite instead, which is fully 3D, but of course much smaller.
Just my thinking, |
stock .the voyager e is an hélico with lots of problem and costs a lot of $$$$$$$$$$$$ for nothing from my point of vue 
