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Beginners Corner > Fresh to RC helis, is t-Rex too much??
 
 
speeddemon370
Senior Heliman
Location: Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada

If sims are so "unnecessary" and don't particularily teach you any transferrable skills, why does anybody that flies anything have to go through a sim first now adays? If it wasn't pertinent I don't think they'd make fighter pilots and astronauts do it. I realize that people were flying planes and heli's way before simulators. They also used to live in caves before they flew. Things change. I can't wait till they start to teach some of these little s#!?'s how to drive a car on a sim. Maybe some senior citizens could benefit from some "virtual" driving school as well. It's just a matter of time. I feel that we should be encourageing the extra venue in which to learn and gain "virtual" experience. Not discouraging it and reccomending the hardest possible route.

Skarn. Nice one with the gyro comment.

with 2 ears and 1 mouth you should listen twice as much as you talk
05-07-2008 12:37 AM
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sinte
Heliman
Location: tacoma,WA

hey....lets all get lap-tops, load our sims on them and take them to the field instead of our helis....that way we never have to take a chance learning something new. heck, we won't ever have to pay the price of crashing to push it to the next level ever again!!!....yaaayyy!!!

.....sold his soul for flip and roll.....
05-07-2008 03:14 AM
 
 
jm417
Heliman
Location: Florida

Skarn,

I’m with you on this issue. For the other guys I tried to learn without the sim and felt that I obtained a fairly decent understanding as to how the heli would fly. I just became frustrated crashing my Blade CP Pro over and over again just to get to the next step. For me it made more sense to get the sim plus at the rate I was learning it would pay for itself. On the other hand the sim does not make you perfect... Here is the outcome of my last flight.





Note: I would like to thank the creators of G3.5, my HP laptop, and many rainy days in S. FL for the successful 90 flights I got in before this tragic day!!!!!

If you touch my heli, I'll triangle choke you!
05-08-2008 04:04 AM
 
 
speeddemon370
Senior Heliman
Location: Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada

I lost tail rotor control yesterday morning during a 60ft inverted hover. I flew it through a constant and uncontrollable pirouette all the way back to right side up and a fairly safe landing that merely resulted in a tip over once the still spinning boom snagged the grass upon landing. I figured I'd post the link if anybody wants to read about it and what caused it.
http://runryder.com/helicopter/t430046p1/
Point is, I'd love to see one of you guys actually practice that somehow without the sim. That could be a very pricy mission and you could potentially never learn a thing. Thank god for my sim or else this crash would have been a crater instead of a bent flybar and feathering shaft. Yes, that's all I wrecked. Everything else was fine!! So, my sim just payed for itself AGAIN!!!!

It's too bad that I don't have a laptop or I could have been super cool and smart like sinte and avoided this whole thing. I just love how people escalate into nonsensical gibberish about something completely off topic. Yeah, cause that's what we're talking about, flying sims INSTEAD of heli's. DUH
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with 2 ears and 1 mouth you should listen twice as much as you talk
05-08-2008 04:19 PM
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RcNutTz
Heliman
Location: Chicago Illinois USA

Wow this is all over the place

I had two Blades Cp Pro's and yes you can fly them the problem I had was I did not see an inprovement in my skills so I kept upgrading still didnt see me getting any better and was about to give up flying! but really like heli's so I took every ones advice and got a trex 450SE V2 and man what a bird! after over 100 flights on the Cp's I was only able to hover in a 4ft square, with my trex I can keep it in a 1ft sqaure

had about $600+ in the 2 cp pro's with all the upgrades just sold them with a munch of parts for $160 had a lot of time waisted and even more money

Picked up the used 450SE V2 for $450 w/gy401, servo's, battery & ar7000 All I had to do was bind up to it

I'd say find a used trex 450 you'll save a bunch and most come with spare parts face it your gonna crash and repair so if you crashed it or some one else did whats the diferents? just try to make sure its a good bird before you buy it if you can find one localy have them test fly it first

as some one said in this post cheep is cheep and they fly but if you really want to fly, fly some thing thats worth flying and this is comming from a "X" Blade Cp Pro owner!

just my $0.02

I fly (I smile) I crash (I'm sad) I repair & Fly (I smile) Wife sees credit Card bill (I run )
05-08-2008 04:55 PM
 
 
Skarn
Senior Heliman
Location: Pasadena, MD

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I can't wait till they start to teach some of these little s#!?'s how to drive a car on a sim. Maybe some senior citizens could benefit from some "virtual" driving school as well. It's just a matter of time

Hey bro,

They've had driving simulators for MANY years now. I'm 41 and when I took drivers ed in high school, we had a dedicated building out behind the school that was a simulator! We were required to go through the simulator training for many hours prior to driving the actual car.

Skarn

It's better to burn out than to fade away...
05-08-2008 05:27 PM
 
 
speeddemon370
Senior Heliman
Location: Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada

I wish those simulators were a little more common. We could sure use them around here.

with 2 ears and 1 mouth you should listen twice as much as you talk
05-08-2008 06:19 PM
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sinte
Heliman
Location: tacoma,WA

speaking of "off topic" speedodemon, what's the question at the beginning of this thread?.....everybody gush about how great a sim is?

i think the guy asked if a t-rex is too much for a beginner

yes the sim is a good tool...to a point

but for the actual question being asked here...no i don't think the t-rex 450 is too much for a beginner
it's a nice machine, and a beginning pilot wouldn't have the difficulty of dealing with the crappy flight characteristics of some lesser models
i learned on the CP Pro for 6 mos. then got the rex

sim on that sim boy

.....sold his soul for flip and roll.....
05-08-2008 10:43 PM
 
 
RotorRage
Senior Heliman
Location: Lake Charles, La.

I also learned on a blade CP. Spent $1000 in parts too LOL. I do have to say if you can fly a blade you can fly ANYTHING! The sim pays for it self the first time you hit the little red button though.

When life gets rough don't pick your nose or you might stab your brain!
05-12-2008 12:13 PM
 
 
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