Anthony Billings

Hi, some of my heli's had Deans, the only trouble is that you need to get a lot of heat onto the terminal to solder the wire correctly due to the thickness of the terminal, and it tends to melt the plastic making it unsightly. EC 3's howeber are soldered out of the plastic holder and then locked into the holder on completion, makes a much neater job. The other problem with Deans that I found was the problem of sparking when connecting the lipo, it is fairly difficult to mate a deans connection without sparking, having raised this problem on a heli forum a lot of the expeirienced guy's put me onto EC 3's or EC 5's depending on the size of wire, due to the individual sockets for the +ve and -ve terminals, even if you do get a spark when mating the connection there is less liklehood of a short which as we all know is not good for lipo's. Tony

With a sim, it all depends on how you set the sim up for your chosen heli, ie if we look at phoenix, there is a vast array of settings that can be changed just as in real life with a programmable Tx. One of the easiest things to try first is to change the sim speed, by slowing it down to say 80% things will be a bit easier, then change the ground effect to 100% as in real life, then you can add the expo to your controls which will smooth things out. As for model selection, leave the so called trainers alone for the time being, choose the largest heli you have available in your menu, as with fixed wing in general, the larger the model the more stable it tends to be. As you get more proficient you can start to reduce tha amount of expo you are using, change to a smaller model and start to increase the sim speed. Sims if set up correctly are a great tool for training, especially heli's, as with a real model, any sort of crash or hard landing will cost loads in repair bills, in fact my first hard landing with a belt cp 450 cost over £30 in spares required to get it flying again. Tony

Hi, if you want an indoor model then go for the Blade MSR, do not go for the T Rex 100 which is a poor copy and does not fly very well. The MSR will fly outdoors in a light breeze, is fairly forgiving of crashes and is very stable, also great fun, i've had mine for over a year now and still love throwing it around. If you are after a bigger outdoor model ie 450 size then I would recommend a CX 450, a clone of the T Rex 450 but a lot cheaper, you can learn on a 450 size and if you google Radds school of flight it will give you a free download of lessons to follow, he talks to you like you are a little kid, but if you can put up with that he will teach you to get it in the air. The advantage of learning on a 450 size is that when you are ready you can mod the 450 a good deal before buying a bigger and more expensive heli later. As you can tell I have come from flying heli's to having a go with fixed wing for a while, any heli related questions then just shout. Tony

Chrisie, you don't have to wait that long, they are available now as long as you have a bank balance with loads of noughts on the end. Tony

Hi Chris, you must be one of the very few that have slipped through the net with HH, I have only heard of good reports about the customer service from HH. I have not had to use them myself, my Dx7 was not one of the affected one's subject to recall, and my MSR has behaived itself for over a year despite being flown into nemerous objects in the house much to my wife's disgust and objections, but it really is great fun, I even smuggled it away with me on our last caravan trip and had great fun outdoors with it in the still air evenings. Tony

Hi guy's, thanks for the replies, first off, I am a member of the BMFA so have my insurance, secondly the Horizon Hobby Super Cub does not have aileron's, it's only a 3 ch. I chose this model not on any sales pitch, but after trawling through a lot of web sites and reading loads of reviews. It appears that upgrading to 2" dia wheels is the way to go so that is what I will try. I will be joining a club at some stage, the club I am thining of here in Cornwall have a number of flyng sites but I also wanted a small park flyer for when I could grab the last hour of the day when the wind has dropped without having to make the hour's drive down to the flying site. Thanks for your replies and I will keep you all posted as to how I get on.   Tony

Hi all, just joined this forum as I am starting out with r/c aeroplanes, I normally fly helicopters. I have ordered a Super Cub LP as my first trainer and in a lot of the reviews and postings on other forums they recommend changing to larger wheels to make take offs and landings on grass much easier, but what size wheels to change to ??? any recommends ? Tony