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cheezyflier

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anyone here fool around with these? i have a couple (a litehawk II and and XL)
but want to get something for the park. the II is an indoor, and the XL is indoor/outdoor which really means it's too small for outdoor, and too big for indoor unless you live in a gym. i just thought mebbe some o' you folks might fool with them also.

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I have messed with them as well. I took mine outside but any wind made it difficult to fly. Inside house I crashed and burned on everything (walls and furniture) . This was a couple years ago when they first came out. I have looked at the newer ones and have wondered if they handle better outside in the wind.

Jim
 
I have 2... My big one is an Align Trex 450 that has flown twice. The first time the crash was not so bad as it was more of a landing than a crash... The second flight was a really big crash, and it has not flown since. I still need to buy a new tail gear box/tail rotor servo. Then she will be good as new.

The indoor training one that I have is the Blade CX2. I am actually pretty decent at flying that. Which is why I got the Align 450... while it turns out you can be good flying small heli's indoors that does not mean you can fly large heli's outside. Which was my mistake with the Trex 450.

The Trex would do excellent outside in the wind.. In the flying club we have very good pilots, and then can handle nearly anything the weather throws at them. They also are able to fly upside down, and do all the stunts. My brain is not wired for that yet, so even trying to do a basic hover is challenging. It all depends on your skill level. Providing you have a heli with good enough power though you can fly in most average weather conditions.
 
i want something i can fly in the park behind my house. i may get an airplane for that, i'm not sure yet. i just know that the ones i have won't cut it outside.
 
ananda said:
How about a turbine powered model? This won't be affected by the wind:
http://www.vario-helicopter.net/products/fuselage-kits/turbine-helicopters/bk-117.html
George
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Isn't there a weight limit on UAV's in most countries these days? I heard 25 pounds in the US.

My outdoor RC helicopter crash record has now gone beyond what's reasonable, and my next one is going to be a quadrocopter with a gyro-stabilsed camera.
And a self-homing stable hover chip for when you lose it.
Mind you, I see I'm already out of date, there is an Oktokopter available.
Must be twice as good...
 
A UAV and a Remote Control Helicopter/Aircraft are to totally different arena's. I know a lot of people in the US like to think they are the same thing, and want them all banned. R/C aircraft are smaller, and are used for line of sight flying. A UAV can be controlled from a satellite, or extremely powerful radio station over long distances nearly anywhere in the World.. I would not venture sending my Trex 450 to go battle the Taliban, or to go across the river to bother people. I have a fairly good Futaba radio and at best I may get 2-3000ft (about half a mile or so) of range out of it before the signal is to weak to control the aircraft.

To the best of my knowledge there are no restrictions as far as weight goes for RC aircraft unless you are talking about taking a 1:1 scale bird, and make it remote control. The only restrictions on my little heli are I obviously cannot use it to bother others, and it must be flown in a responsible manner... Other than that it is open season.

You can get gyro's and such for even the single rotor ones, so you do not need to go to a quadrocopter unless you want to. I have a gyro on my Trex 450 that will hold/track a particular heading. I could add more, but the gyro's are pretty expensive. Not to mention I do not have much room to mount them on my heli. It was hard enough for me to find a place to mount the radio reciever box on it, and run all the servo wires through the frame without putting them in any gear mesh.
 
I used to fly R/C heli's but gave them up because my eyes can't keep up with them right now. Fixed wing I have no problem with. Your little one shown is designed to fly in some wind, as the tail rotor is positioned for vertical control of the tail (pitch) to help the rotors tilt more aggressivly for forward flight. Bank is still restricted, but yaw is used to turn, in this case.

In the US there is a 55lb limit for open flying, heavier requires a special "airshow" permit, and can only be flown legally, (meaning covered by insurance,) in show type environments. Same goes for turbine powered aircraft.
 
modelr said:
In the US there is a 55lb limit for open flying, heavier requires a special "airshow" permit, and can only be flown legally, (meaning covered by insurance,) in show type environments. Same goes for turbine powered aircraft.
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wow! i had no idea! but then, how do you practice? i would think practice is important.
 
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