Thread: RC Helo - Honey Bee King 3

Originally Posted by lro11

Well I have my trex 450 clone and I am having a bit of a go in my hotel room. it is worth the money. It even comes in a padded aluminium brief case and it is ready to fly. I can't believe how cheap it is but still quality.

Mine is a recently purchased clone as well. With use the the screws have been vibrating loose and some of the electronics are not the best - burnt out the ESC on first flight and a servo just packed it in - and the Gaz Gyro was not the best and now replaced with an Align 750. Of ready to fly does not really mean that - my setup was awful and I had to reset the servos to centre, level the swash plate and reset linkages to correct length and reset the blades.

I would be undoing all the nuts bolts and screws and loctiting them - only use the weakest stuff as medium and high strength stuff will only result in stripped allen keys and heads when you have to remove them later.

Garry

Below is a link to one of my helis.
Well, it was my heli till some-one broke in and stole much of my gear.

Its a pretty big scale electric heli I build.
I started on Trex and just kept on getting bigger.

Best way to start is via a simulator with same controls as your heli will have.
Hardest thing to master is the hover and than the head in hover where the heli faces you.

Just keep doing landings and hovers.
Than practise little circuits and after that do auto rotations so you can land under power failure or similar.
They take time to master but like anything, are very addictive.
That heli on the you tube video cost me around $10k.
Flight times are around 8 min and current draw is around 80amps constant.
Good luck and happy flying mate.


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as for the screws vibrating loose a bit of loctite on them will solve that. Also the servo's for those smaller heli's are not expensive to replace as they usually break in a crash until you go to good quality servo like the Hitec HB65.

As well as the simulator, a set of training gear can be a good investment . Really helps stop the heli tipping over whilst learning to hover. And remember, always look at the nose of teh heli, not the tail, so when you move the rudder to the right, the nose will go to the right, and visa versa.

Originally Posted by big guy

Than practise little circuits and after that do auto rotations so you can land under power failure or similar.
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I remember auto rotations...man they are scary the 1st few times

That is really nice helicopter you have. I guess as long as it doesn't crash the smile will remain on your face.

I started on one of those Esky fixed pitch honey bee's.
Nightmare to setup and learn on. Much better to take the plunge and get a better quality heli to start AND a Sim.
I still suck at flying but have a t-rex 450se and a 250se.