Heli Ate the manual

[Trumpetrhapsody]

I've had this thing for probably half a year now (still haven't exactly hovered) and funny story about the day i got it comes to mind. So I bought my Dragonfly #36 off ebay on a whim after a cursory amount of research on it (more of an impulse buy than anything). Only now do I know what I was getting myself into . Anywho, so I have no idea what I'm doing, so I figure i'll hold it down on the floor and fire it up, see what it's like to spin up. I realize too late the flight mode switch was set to inverted mode, so as soon as I plug it in it goes full throttle with full negative pitch. Conveniently I had left the walkera manual near the copter, and the suction sucked it through the blades and shredded it. Looking back it's hilarious, but at the time it scared the crap out of me, lol. Good news is I didn't have to decode the poorly worded manual after that!

Since then I've dealt with several crashes trying to get calibrated and learn to hover, a dead lipo before I could even use it, the nimh's that came with it not being powerful enough to hover, and just this week upgrading to brushless but ordering the wrong pinions (should be in next week, then the real fun will begin). Hopefully everything will be in order at that point, and after the many hours of sim training i've done I hope to be able to actually hover like I can in sim in real life and start learning to fly!

[Mr.Mike]

That is a funny story!!! We are kind of in the same boat. I got my Blade CP and did some small short hovers in my living room. I was doing ok on the sim too. The first good day we had I took it out side and lifted off for full on flight... Why I didnt do some hovering I dont know. almost at once I crashed into a bush, then a boat.

I have been spending the past month sorting problems with after market heads and parts not fitting quite right. All in due time.

I think the key to first flights it

think, think, think... and think some more ha ha ha.

[shanee86]

Yea I had or started with small electrics and now I got a hawk pro 30 size and I will never go back don't fly my cp much at all now. Why because cp is way way harder then the bigger models witch is what is usually on the sim's. I would say if you learning get a eflight blade cx then move up but not so sure a cp is a good idea try a bigger one maybe but would suggest you get some help with it.