Walkera is not a bad choice

[DanMan]

There are a lot of choppers marketed as RTF (ready to fly). This however is miss leading. OK, you can charge your battery and try to fly but you inevitably crash. Your chopper is not trimmed mechanically nor electronicly. Now Yoy can buy a raptor (they are over estimated) or you can byy a walkera (they are under estimated). The chief differrence is the price. After three walkeras i settled on a 22 E. Appart from the tail motor all parts a practically interchangable. My 22 E looks quite proffessional with all the alloy parts and the parts fit snuggly so I have good controll. I added fishing tackle weights on the fly bar rod and shifted the servo rods a notck inward. I also added a camera, so now I hav e a low ccenter of gravity.

You better go throuch all the trims before you start flying ex. http://www.walkera22e.zoomshare.com/.

My servos had a tendency to do hoolahoola glichglich but once I aligned them 90 degrees +/- I have had no problems.

The RX had a tendancy to freak out untill I lead the antenna straight out and throu a straw that fits inti the landing gear.

[mrmuffinmanvw]

Good luck with the walkera electronics they are a time bomb thats ticking the best thing I did with my DF60 was bone the electronics. Yes mine reached out and bite me after the electronics failed. I like the quality of the helicopters but your best to buy them barebones and put your own electronics in. My Futaba setup blows away the walkera junk it flys so solid and I don't have to worry about it having a mind of its own.

[Dangerman]

I know about Walkera electronics failing. My 22D went off on its own today. I got it off the ground and had a tail rotor failure at the same time my electronics failed. I last saw my heli at about 40 ft and heading due west gaining even more altitude. After about 2 hrs of searching, I was still unable to recover my bird.

[DanMan]

To jibe you you a little I would congragulate you on a well ballanced heli. Mine don't dissapear, they do a little of this too much oh that and then, because I want to be friends and they are too near they try to chop me up.

Now this chopping stuff isn't going to dissuade me even though I have a few wicked looking wounds. (All caused by walkeras).

To get on to serious talk I think It is best to stay with one maker. (When did you last change your religion.) I'm such a novice that everyone is telling me to buy a REX. Well I'm not to be bullied. I know that I can shout glich and failure, but the true fact is that we, the owners of the despised walkeras don't know a whooooot in H.... about flighing helicopters, we bought cheap helis. I have seen a couple of hours of sucseeded walkera flight. If I, a practised FMS pilot or the owner of a Twister Bell, am to have a say in things, I have to Know that I am not the victim of a cultural revolution in which a REX is sexy. The REX in all it's formats i probably a good chopper, but it's hard to digest the fact that chineses clones are in any way defficient. I am not in any way a follower in things dogmatik. I however ask Walkera to take head:

- Your net service is defficient,
- Rex people say your elecctronics don't work, ( Who's does)
- Fight with us the people producing defunct technology, and lets give all the raptors , blades, piccolo boards ,which I think you manifactured a blaze. Give us a massive Walkera spares and uppgrade service, lower prices and let the Raptorists quaver.

Until all this happens I hope someone will figure out a way of schooling RC chopper pilots on the net. Let's forget the make. With experience we also gather knowledge of our needs.

Now this probably did nothing in the way of finding your escaped Walkera. But I hope it gave you the resilience not to give up your hobby. It's even better to change religion and but a Rex than to give up a passtime that will give you friends, an exceeded knowledge of technology, pure delight of thinking 3D, and a chance to sit and chat with a bunch of crazies.

Just tell your heli to come home tear up a few bucks and don't let him get out of sight.

Yours sincerelly,

Dan

[mrmuffinmanvw]

Do yourself a favor buy a Honey Bee fp mk 2 or 3 three comes with a lipo. This is a heli that you can beat on and it comes back for more it is the best heli to learn on there is. I have alot more fun flying it than my DF60 and most of the time in a crash you just fold the blades back out and you are off again. My Walkera is fine now that I changed all the electronics over to Futaba but what it cost so far I could have brought a Trex.

[Dangerman]

Thanks guys for your input. I am far from quitting this hobby. One has to assume the reality that anything mechanical can and will fail. I had in the back of my mind that something like this could happen ........ and it did. Will it happen again....probably. I will accept your advice DanMan, I will keep at it and join that group of crazies that make up hobby.

[stonecoldfyu]

First I want to say hi to all I am New to all this. I just recieved my dragon heli by walkera yesterday and was fooling with the flight simulator and decided to try the heli and to my disappointment the motor will not spin as if it isnt recieving a signal the other joystick operates the blades up and down but I can not get the motor to do nothing unless i bypass the the box. Any help would be appreciate. I have tried contacting the store where it was purchased from but will have to wait until tommorow when they are open i Guess.

[stonecoldfyu]

Well I got an e-mail from the store I got the heli from and they told me what I had to do. Something that was not in the instructions but I took it in first here at work as wasnt very pretty but I can see it is going to take some time to get the hang of this. I also checked out the first flight instuctions at the beginning of the forum and am about ready to try the instructions. So far the heli is very unstable but I have to figure out how to trim it out I guess.