Walkera 4G3

Admin answers:

Hi The Honey Bee is a superb starting helicopter. Check the website for places to buy these helicopters from. Just type in rc helicopters in Google and you will get a massive list of places where you can buy them from. I’m also new to the hobby i’m 34! And I’ve just joined a R/C helicopter club locally to me. I highly recommend you do this too if you want to get serious in this hobby. It’s illegal to fly helicopters or anything like that in someone Else’s field due to the risk in accidents but you should be fine with a Comanche. I’m going to plunge myself into the deep end and buy a Trex 500 6 channel helicopter! This helicopter is massive by the way, it’s about 1.2 meters long! And can fly 3000ft away from me any direction! It does cost about £260 for the helicopter but you do need to buy the control box and other things to finish the job. Overall it will probably set you back to about £600! This is also the helicopter you can see on Youtube with the Airwolf shell and the flashing lights! Check it out on youtube it’s so cool! Anyway good luck with the helicopter and have fun!

Admin answers:

The PicooZ is a good idea, but the warranty is not too great. I would suggest you go with the Air Hogs Havoc instead… It is child-proofed, so it is hard to break and it wouldn’t hurt someone as much as a real helicopter would.

Http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3899671

Admin answers:

Hi Anonymous,
I want to warn you that the $20 micro helicopters have a 50% failure rate out of the box. I have worked with many of them myself, and the members of my RC club got about 30 of them. Fully half would spin uncontrollably.

All the ones I had flew for several minutes on a 15 minute charge. There is no new battery for the heli. These do not have any user-serviceable parts. It is put in by the factory and you throw it away when it stops working. But the failures were always with the mechanics or with the electronics. The batteries kept going after a hundred charges (on the few that worked well enough to keep using)

Channels refer to the control features supported between the transmitter and receiver. Not individual frequencies for each channel, but rather coded data sent on the one frequency the Transmitter uses. Two channel helis have the main throttle on one channel, so that the heli can go up and down, and the rudder, or yaw control, on the second channel so that you ca turn the heli. There is no provision for forward flight. You typically add a bit of weight to the nose so that the heli always drifts forward slowly the entire time it is in flight. A three channel heli adds elevator, or pitch, control. You can make the heli lean forward and back, so you can control forward and rearward flight. A four channel heli adds roll control, so you can fly left and right (like a crab).
The next step is typically a six channel heli, adding gyro control and collective pitch. These are the helis that can do ore aggressive stunts, like inverted flight.

Before you buy, read and ask question on the dedicated RC heli forums. You will learn a lot, and get better information.

Http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/Helicopter_Beginners_Forum/forumid_165/tt.htm

http://www.rcgroups.com/micro-helis-42/

Good luck!

Admin answers:

There are a lot of choices here, but your best bet would be a .30 sized or .50 sized Raptor. You can get them ARF (almost ready to fly) or in full kit form. Don’t get the ARF, build it yourself because you’re gonna need that experience when it crashes.. And it _will_ crash, they all do. I’ve been flying almost 5 years and have three working Raptors. I’ve toasted 2. You can get the model from a lot of places, but a good deal can be found at Heliproz. Also, get plenty of info from the links below.

Admin answers:

Yes they are hard to fly till you learn practice practice practice your going to a hobby shop check out the simulators it will save you hundreds or thousands here’s a few sites for you once you learn there not that hard but it takes time

http://www.runryder.com/

http://www.heliproz.com/

the G4 T-REX is a nice bird and dose all the tricks and 3-D you can think of and it’s not bad priced look for a combo it will come with all you need

SORRY about that I was thinking simulator and Helli at the same time

G4 simulator and the T-REX 450SA

Admin answers:

Can u buy me one too, my b-day is comming up in a few months