nmrs
Senior Heliman
Location: Austin, TX
| Use woodies and fly it like a simMy average crash on my 450 se v2 is blades (pro woodies: $13), main gear ($3), main shaft ($3). Add it up and it's less than $20 a crash. It's cheap to fix, so don't be scared to crash it. At $20 a crash, I consider it a trainer heli. Granted once in a while, you break something else--tail boom ($4), flybar ($2)--but I don't think I've ever had a crash that exceeded $40, and I have truly awesome crashing skills... Fly it like a sim and fix it when you bust it. Even the $200 heli is gonna have to be fixed, and with mostly plastic parts, you'll probably have to replace half the head with each crash. Granted plastic is cheap, but still all the extra parts you'll have to buy since the head isn't metal will probably still add up to $20 and all those extra broken parts take time to replace, so at the end of the day, you aren't really saving anything. Just buying yourself a heli that takes way more parts and time to fix....
Secrets to cheap 450 se v2 crashes:
1) Wood blades. If you're not using them, you should be, at least while learning. They're cheap as hell, generally track great (in my experience, 1 in 6 or 7 sets suck but other than that great), and absorb much if not most of the energy in a crash. All that energy that is blowing that wood to smithereens is energy that isn't bending your head.
2) Metal gear servos. I use HS 65MGs. I've plowed my heli in a lot, and in all those crashes, replaced 1 set of gears (1 broken tooth on 1 gear).
450 se v2 |
Oh, I see you've already chosen wisely 
