Is CP really that much easier than FP?

[WykeWing]

I have a HoneyBee FP heli and the rather good sim G3 (which, counting the number of times I've crashed in it, has more than made up for its purchase cost )

Anyway, I've been practising with all the Impala, Huey etc and doing a decent job of hovering up and down the tarmac, when I found the little electric heli at the bottom of the list. So I thought I'd give it a go, seeing as it was supposedly like mine. However, I really notice a difference between it and the Impala (and others) in (a) getting the thing off the ground and (b) general ability to keep it in the air. You really have to rev the watsits of it and boy oh boy, is it a fisty little number. No wonder I'm having trouble with my HoneyBee.

So the big question, should I have gone for a heli with CP, as the ones in G3 seem a whole lot easier to handle, or is it just the G3's electric number is a bit of a handful?

[Old man]

Yes my friend Cp is much easyer to fly than fp and the heavier the better if you fly outdoors.

[BLACKHAWK DOWN]

yes plain and simple

[sportygreg]

Most micro helis are harder to fly because of the light weight-a fixed pitch even more so because it relies on head speed and fixed pitch birds usually have marginal head speed to begin with.With a CP bird you can use higher head speed and reduce pitch for more stability.

[WykeWing]

Oh poo. Looks like a bought the wrong heli. Tough to fly for a beginner and limited upgrade (read none) potential. Still, I suppose I could look at it another way....if I get good on this heli then anything else should be a walk in the park. Just got to come up with a way of justifying to my wife the need for another helicopter.

[shmokinmonki]

Hey , dont give in, look at my video post, that was ages ago im now happily flying around (just the pesky job gettin in the way ).....

Just remember to give more throttle than you think, when decending weight of the heli travels downwards, the quicker it falls the more "weight" it gains....

Think of it like this, hold a tennis ball on ur hand , it weights very little (you hand is the upward lift, and the ball the heli). Now drop the ball into your hand............theres more downwards force (the ball+speed= more weight)

So you hand (the upward thrust) requires more lift to stay steady (hover)

good old newtons law !!!

I hope that made sense ive had a smoke tonight

[sportygreg]

There is nothing wrong with learning on a fixed pitch heli-I started with a #4 Dragonfly and still have it.It was so unstable I thought it was posessed!I learned how to crash it,fix it,and eventually to fly it-valuable experience for moving up to a larger and better helicopter.

[WykeWing]

As I think on, I am happy enough with my purchase. The main reason I got the Bee was because it was an indoor heli, with potential for outdoor flight. I've just had a look at it sat on the dinning room table, religated there since last weekend's attempt to strim the garden resulted in the purchase of G3.

With all the practise I've been putting in on G3, I reckon that I'm just about up for charging the NiMH and revisiting those feelings of terror as the rotor picks up sufficient speed to lift the Bee of the ground and suddenly everything is happening at once!

I'll let you know how it all goes - hopefully a successful maiden controlled flight.