help

[karl twigger]

I every1 am just starting out and finding it very difficult to get started.I have a caliber 30 and a trexx450 witch i cant even get of the ground. I am willing to trade the trexx for a easy heli to fly i am going to join a flying school next summer but i woud like a bit of practice before i go.i have reflex xtr but theres nothing like the real thing.with thanks karl

[gray161]

I have a hirobo shuttle zx that I am going to trade or sell. I was looking to trade on a trex, is yours ready to fly and what all does it come with? I have mine took apart right now fixing some things that I broke, but I should have it repaired this week. I am just waiting on the parts. It comes with alot of extra parts and training gear.Just let me know if your interested and if not how much would you take for the trex, my email is gray161@earthlink.net send me some pics of it if you can

[deanmax]

You don't want to sell the trex I can help I have a 450SE and off the ground the first time with no training gear and just alittle tail wag. I'm sure its your linkage is stiff and knowing how to set up all linkage at 90 deg at half throttle and 5 deg up pitch.
Also there's another web sight that really gives good help even tho its about a raptor. Almost all helis setup the sameway the page is www.raptortechnique.com it is worth checking for reference. Hope this helps and gets you on your way I fly both planes and helis.
Just remember don't chop the power on the heli and thats harder than you know when your knees are knocking and you are trying to breath.

[hawkman]

Sims are great for stick time....but setting up a rc heli so it flys ok is something else.....You could go to a flight school but its quite pricey...but if thats what you want............

I was on my own with my first heli....some of the setting up was quite hard to sort out but I got it airborne and the rotor speed seemed ok.

There are some critical things to setting up....but set up ok the TRex will fly ok....the larger nitro heli will be quite stable in comparison to the rex.

There are books on the subject of rc helis...the book I used helped me a lot...it was slightly outdated in its views to electric flight...but then li po stuff wasnt commonplace.

Do ask questions here on the site....most of us would love to help...we all know whats its like at the start.

Rob

[deanmax]

This sound like what I went through learning on my own and it almost took the fun out of RC but plane after plane and book after book.
Well you get the picture of course back in early 70s there wasn't sin. to help and very few fellow flyers with a helping atitude.
I was lucky for foam planes that just came out and I still have one of the 2. It's really epoxyed up but it taught me to fly.
I taught quite a few people how to fly sense but like airplanes when I started getting interested in helis there's no information that really counts where you really need it. The manual tells how to put it together but never tells you that the ball ends need to be free fallen with no end play, boy how much would that of help back 5 or 6 complete helis in the beginning up to know.
Now I learn so much I've gotten my old out of date helis out of the boxes and put them back together and flown them just to see them fly for the first time. I fell like I didn't just waist alot of money now. And it is a change of paste to fly an old one I'm lucky I have a cnc mill and lathe for that just in case that unpredictable happens. From gears to tail booms I can do.
Its funny how I learn cnc meet this guy in the hobby store and started building his planes and he tought me cnc he was a college teacher machinist who didn't have time to build even trade.

[New-heli-pilot]

Yea, getting rid of the Trex could come back and bite you. Mainly because they are such a nice helicopter. If you were to sell it, then decided that you wanted to get into this hobby more, you would probably end up buying another Trex, so you might as well keep it. For some help setting it up, go to www.trextuning.com


John

[hawkman]

The Trex site is very very good....sure will help me when I get a Trex.

Rob

[karl twigger]

Cheers for the feedback well appreciated I think I am going to keep the trexx now.The problem am getting is that I have 2 helicopters and 1 transmitter.the transmiter is for the caliber30 and all i do is take the crystal out the caliber and put it in the trexx, but when i try to fly ,it the controls are all over the place.There could be a very easy solution but i know nothing about this hobby.The transmiter is a swanwa 6 channel.I would love to be able to take the hobby 1 step further.

Would i be better of practicing with the petrol 1 instead.its just that when i had it going it looked very dangerous and could do a lot more damage

comments would be apreciated.cheers karl