I finally got into this addicting hobby lol!!

[flippychick]

My boyfriend got into this heli thing a few weeks ago, and I got super ticked!! haha. He took me along to the lhs, and made me watch tons of videos, and pretty much bored me out of my mind, until he drug me up to a flying field. Once I saw it in person, I started to get semi interested in it and threw the idea out to him of me getting one. I don't think he thought I was serious, until we went to the lhs today and they let me fly a blade cx. After that I "got the bug" as he put it. A few minutes later, we walked out of the store with a blade cx, and my own training wheels lol. The whole point of our trip there was to get some shafts for the trex he crashed last night. Guess we got a bit more than we thought huh? We went through one battery already to get me used to the controls, once it re-charges, we are stepping up to the hover. So I need some good luck to show him that chicks can fly (my goal is to get better than him) lol. Any advice would be great!!!

[TJRIDE]

Hi Trish,

You will learn a lot from that Blade CX. My wife (kjfly) started with my Blade CP.
Now she has her own Blinged Trex 450 and loves it. I am sure she will be talking with you on here. :glasses:

The biggest thing is to practice every chance you get. A SIM really helps.. :smokin:

TJ
:glasses2:

[Jetgirl]

I agree, sims are fantastic at helping. You can crash with no consequences in time or $$

Advice

Practice, practice, practice, practice and practice some more :)

[flippychick]

We have the SIM, that's what he started getting me to try, but it wasn't as fun as the real thing. Now I am sure I will be on the SIM more. I just did my first hover!!!! It was awsome!!!!

[flippychick]

Thanks for the advice. I am super excited to fly now. I am being greedy though, the boyfriend wants to fly my heli and I keep telling him no, I am only on my second battery lol. I decided to get this one instead of a rex mainly because of the cost, since I hadn't flown before, I wanted to make sure I would like it (which I do) and so that if or when I crash it should be cheap lol

[kjfly]

Hello Trish.

Welcome to the Freak!! You'll love flying...........and don't worry about being what we call a newbie...........my husband and I are both newbies too!!!
:cheers

We're still just hovering also.........but getting better each time. And Jetgirl is right, practice, practice, practice is the best advice!!
:fly

Don't be worried about crashing. It will happen. Everyone crashes. I used to be so worried about it until that first crash. Then my hubby mechanic (TJRIDE) fixed my TRex and I was back hovering in a day. Anything can be fixed.

Have fun!!! Glad to see another lady on board!!

kjfly
:glasses2:

[WillJames]

Welcome to the FREAK Flippy!! Youa re going to love the CX, it will be a great steppign stone for you and also a machine you pick bakc up and fly from time to time in the house after flying your TREX outside.

Thanks for joining and sharing your exxperiences with us, we look forward to seeing you progress.

[RobinJames]

Hang in there....I have watched people fly (from the side lines of course) for quite a while before they feel that they have mastered it!!!

[flippychick]

I am glad to see how nice and incouraging everyone is on here. I think that the blade cx will be a great heli to have around, my boyfriend has already flown one battery on it to practice is side in hovering. So I think it will help him A LOT when he's ready for nose in hovering. I appologize if any of my terminology is off lol.

[leslie]

Hi All,

You will love the blade. I use a hummingbird fp for my winter (indoor) flying to keep the skills up. Your terminology is spot on :wink:

Cheers,
Leslie

[flippychick]

Thank you. I feel sorta wierd when all these people are saying words that I have heard, but no clue what there are lol. I think that it will be a great heli to keep around. Helirook is using it to practice different hovering and stuff. There is talk of taking off the training wheels, that scares me lol. :shock:

[skinchini]

Flippy,
I owned a Blade CP for a year and it was fly good one day lucky to hover the next. Then the CX came out and I picked one up had it mastered in about a week. Then came the T-Rex a few months ago and BEHOLD an instant hover. I have NO sim time at all and the T-Rex would have been a nightmare had I not had the CX. Fast forward to today and this is what I can do thanks to a CX. Pulled a Blade CP Pro out of the box and flew it. I was actually very surprised at how solid it was (I work in a hobby shop and have now become known as the heli guy, thanks for the videos finless I send a lot of people to this forum because of you). Today I put the final parts on a six year old ECO 8 that has never flown. A customer brought it in and asked if I could get it to fly, BEHOLD again it had its first hover at 11:30pm tonight DAMN this thing feels squishy compared to my Rex.
So long story short the CX is the gateway drug to the Heli addiction. Keep it up and when it becomes aggrivating set it down and come back an hour later.
Scott