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| I wouldn't buy either right now. I own two piccolos but before you can which is better, it depends on the purpose. I have two pics, the first is for hovering in the house only, despite what some people say, the fixed pitch piccolo really is an indoor heli only (unless ther is NO wind & I mean none). With tons of mod it will fly outside on calm days ok but its not exactly fun, challenging is the best way of putting it. I also own a CP piccolo which I am currently trying to find time to put together, reports of the CP upgrade are good so far but the piccolo has a problems even with the CP mod is that any prolonged input will add an off set input @ 90 degree, the swash was never really meant for 3D though :-) Another common thing you hear is that the piccolo floats and the Hornet flys, can't really comment on this as I've never seen the hornet fly in real life but from videos, I'd have to agree. The Piccolo has one thing going for it however, it takes the knocks better than the hornet, the piccolo is designed to fall apart on an impact more than the hornet is and the hornet tends to be more expensive to fix because of this.
Why wouldn't I buy either now? MS is working on a CP version of the hornet (mod kit in Feb for the stock Hornet) and Ikarus are working on a whole new micro based on the 3D version of the Pixel (I'll find some videos of this if anyone is interested). There is also the housefly to look at from MIA, this is a brand new sub-micro that looks very promising. The hornet Vs Piccolo topic was covered on the Piccolo BBS a week or so ago, surpisingly this wasn't a flame war and very objective as most the Piccolo owners their also own the hornet as well. |
I dont think you will se a sugnifigant difference in flight times. But I personally like the way the Hornet is settup as opposed to the Picolo. Some of the things are the fact that the tail is gear driven like a nitro heli. Also the little boom mounted servo for the tail. And I also like the CCPM settup. I have seen pics of the thing hovering inverted. So it looks pretty cool to me. I do own one but have yet to fly it. I still need a few parts. But the Hornet was the one I chose over the Picolo. Just my oppinion though.
