Ozz58
Heliman
Location: Ft. Worth, TX USA
| Here comes the normal answer!Lacker,
By your post, can I assume you don't have a heli now? Or maybe a little inside bird.(Blade CX)
If this is the case, get a simulator, lots of posts about good ones here. I have RealFlight 3.5.
This made me smile when I read it, "not crazy expensive or really hard to fly?" Any outside bird is hard to fly if it your first.
I'm not trying to make fun of you, as I really want as many people as possible to enjoy this hobby. Just don't want them to think there is a easy flying heli out there for the first time flyer.
I have the Blade CX, Blade CP, Blade 400, Trex 500 and an old nitro Shuttle ZXX. The best or as you put it "not really hard to fly" is the Trex 500 and the nitro, the reason is the size. Bigger is better when it come to stability. Now cost is a different thing. My Blade 400 was only $399 ready to fly out of the box. And it did for 10 or 12 flights. After that the servos started to fail. Needless to say, upgrade the servos to HS65 and got more batteries. Total investment in the 400 is around $650 - $700 now, but it flys very nice. The Trex 500 GF, is stock with some very nice electics and three batteries, total cost $1,350.
So price can depend on what you do with the heli.
My advice, get a sim and practice every day, the rest depends on your funds. I really like my Blade 400 now, but could of gotten the Trex-450 for around the same price at the end. My Trex-500 is great and easy to fly, when I say easy, it means very stable but it's very quick and responsive, so a newbe could get in trouble quick.
Sorry for the ramble, end advice....take it slow, check out differnt forums/posts, go to your LHS see what they support, vist the local fly field and see what they have. We all want you to stay in this hobby. Most of us will NOT lead you down the wrong path.
Craig
Really can't come up with something good |
) retiree doing nothing important for the past couple of years since I got out of racing the Big scale RC Cars and sold everything. That was until I started reading RR. Now I have a G3.5 sim and 2 small electric 'Toys', FlyDragonfly and an E-flite Blade CP+ and just got a real radio, DX6i. Now I'm looking to upgrade into something a little larger in Electric that both my seeing eye dog and I can see from more than 40 yards distance and does not take a whole SS check to purchase.
