Just FYI: I flew a blade CP pro today

[DebianDog]

I did not want to come off as a hater so when I was offered to fly a Blade CP today I bought it as hard as I could.

My opinion has not changed. It is O.K. for $250

I still would not suggest it to a beginner it is a handful to fly. I will however reiterate.

IF YOU FLY THE BLADE CP WELL...
BUY ANY HELICOPTER YOU WANT ... WITHOUT HESITATION...
BECAUSE YOU ARE A GOOD PILOT.

:OMG CP Pilots

[chopperdudes]

yay!!! :D i can hover it inverted and continuous stationary rolling/rolling to one side and the other, (180 tic tocs? :wink: ) good pilot i am :mrgreen: hmmm... now for the next heli... BUY ANY HELICOPTER YOU WANT ... WITHOUT HESITATION... if i only have the money :lolol

[Saibot]

It's definitely a handful. I bought one the day after Christmas and learned how to fly it in the garage. Before this I had absolutely zero helicopter experience, no planks either. I bought it on a whim after getting some crazy little toy coax for Christmas. It would only go up and down and you can't even steer it but it got me thinking how cool a real R/C chopper would be.
No inverted stuff for me (at least not yet) but I can fly it around reasonably well outside and rarely crash it now. Putting it on a DX7 really tamed it down too. You can say what you want about the little beast, but it got me into the hobby and now I have a GY401, three HS-65MG's, a DS3400G and of course the DX7 sitting on the kitchen counter waiting for my TREX 450SE V2 which is in the mail right now (I'm so giddy :mrgreen: ).

[chopperdudes]

haha, i got mine last mid-july, 0 heli experience, not even 2 channel ones, did have car exp though. i dun have a sim, and self taught in 3 days, yes, it was not setup correctly, but i learnt to fly it before i learnt to set it up. (basically always holding rudder and aileron and elevator imputs in hovering). and it's got me from hovering to inverted hovering. i do have a futaba 7chp for it, and have 3xHS65 MG with me (when i do get a trex), however, i still can't make up my mind about getting the trex, mainly because i'm only a teenager delivering newspapers, and i still think that the blade can take me further down the road.

well, basically, if you put in $200 more, you can expect the blade to take you to sideway tic tocs and continuous piro flips as kyle has shown in his vid :lol: not too bad for $450? you still can't get a trex for that amount of money. and i think kyle flying his blade cpp is better than what ~80% of ppl out there doing with their trex's.

[F1Atom]

Had no previous experience either except on RC cars. The BCP was my first taste into the world of heli's. After a proper setup from the hobby shop I was hovering in about a week. And yes, this little bastard is a lot to handle even if its properly setup and balanced. Other than that its a pretty good and durable heli. The only thing that bothers me now is the motors. I wish Eflite had better motors that last longer or at least a motor where you can change the brushes out. I saw one on helihobby but I dunno too much about it.

I plan to move up to trex or an Esmart later on.

[Buzzkill]

I'm going to stick with the CPP until I can nose in without panic before getting another heli. After I try a BL fan tail and a belt conversion (waiting on Ray's take in the compy 300) I'll be forced to move up since I've tried every mod I know of with a CPP :D

[wren1702]

Having moved from a mini electric (Revo CP) to a 50 size nitro bird today, I would have to say there is no comparison. The 50 size is 50 times better to fly!

Like Dan says, if you can fly a CPP pretty good, you'll be great on a larger heli!

[fllyer]

IF YOU FLY THE BLADE CP WELL...
BUY ANY HELICOPTER YOU WANT ... WITHOUT HESITATION...
BECAUSE YOU ARE A GOOD PILOT.

:OMG CP Pilots

I will agree with that 100%.

I bought my CPP about a month after the LHS had got them in stock and practiced on the sim for a month before that. Even though I had prior experience with R/C cars and planes, the CPP opened my eyes to how difficult a heli can be.

After fighting with my CPP to get it to hover inside of a five foot circle, I finally decided to get a T-Rex. When I first took it up into a hover I was like WOW! This is so much smoother.

The difference between a CPP and a Rex is more than comparing apples and oranges. It's more like comparing a grape to a Oak tree. lol

Now only if the weather here in the bootheel of Missouri will calm down so I can get past hovering. :arggg:

[dparkhouse]

Were should I start.

I will say my Blade Cp is about two more crashes from the trash.

I have been wanting to get into flying helis for a couple years now and finally got my first heli a couple of months ago. I had a good crash and just finished replacing all the broken parts. Now the whole heli wants to spin out of control. Not sure what to do now.

Proud Cp owner.......

[Buzzkill]

Don't trash it yet. The CP is touchy and sometimes its extremely frustrating. There's lots of people here including myself that will help! There's lots of things that could be causing this. Is the tail spinning out of control? If so what direction?

[warpspeed]

D-Dog, I understand your reluctance to come across as a hater. I, however, have no such qualms. :twisted:

The thing is a giant flaming ball of bloody pus and that's all there is to it. Had I not been such an ignorant trusting newb idiot I never would have bought it, let alone dumped wads of $$$ into it trying to "fix" it. I added it up the other day and what I've put into it would have bought an SEv1!

It's now just a very expensive paperweight until I decide what to do with it. :bomb:

[rstacy]

I did not want to come off as a hater so when I was offered to fly a Blade CP today I bought it as hard as I could.

My opinion has not changed. It is O.K. for $250

I still would not suggest it to a beginner it is a handful to fly. I will however reiterate.

IF YOU FLY THE BLADE CP WELL...
BUY ANY HELICOPTER YOU WANT ... WITHOUT HESITATION...
BECAUSE YOU ARE A GOOD PILOT.

:OMG CP Pilots

Double D,
Kyle says "You da man!!" :thumbs-up2:

[Buzzkill]

LOL, dang, I'll give anyone that has a working CPP $50 for it :D

[spork]

The thing is a giant flaming ball of bloody pus and that's all there is to it.

So is that a thumbs up or thumbs down? :dontknow

I don't understand you kids and your lingo these days. :mrgreen:

[PG 378]

IF YOU FLY THE BLADE CP WELL...
BUY ANY HELICOPTER YOU WANT ... WITHOUT HESITATION...
BECAUSE YOU ARE A GOOD PILOT.

:OMG CP Pilots


dude thats funny!

[Buzzkill]

I think thats a thumbs down lol

[warpspeed]

Well, not to put TOO fine a point on it, but yes, that would be correct! :mrgreen:

Guess I'll have to watch my back now. I imagine the BCP faithful have taken offense at my post and are even now ganging up at the field to send a cloud of these angry little birds my way in an attempt to cut off something useful.

Of course, one by one they'll glitch right out of the air, so I'm not too worried about it. :smokin:

[spork]

I imagine the BCP faithful have taken offense at my post and are even now ganging up at the field to send a cloud of these angry little birds my way in an attempt to cut off something useful.

No worries. Just try to stand directly in front of them. I've never seen them fly a straight line for long. :mrgreen:

[Buzzkill]

LMAO!!!! We could throw them :lolol

[slikrx]

I imagine the BCP faithful have taken offense at my post and are even now ganging up at the field to send a cloud of these angry little birds my way in an attempt to cut off something useful.

No worries. Just try to stand directly in front of them. I've never seen them fly a straight line for long. :mrgreen:
Ouch and touche' :mrgreen:

can't argue with the truth!...

ANd Buzz- yeah, throwing mine is about ALL i can do at the moment :bomb:

[Buzzkill]

I spend wayyyy more time trying to make my CPP something its not than I do flying. Problem is, now that I've been looking around a lot and doing research I dont know what my next heli will be. There really is so many choices. I think I'll try the compy 300 thing and thenmove on. Unless the little belt compy keeps me satisfied for a while.

[slikrx]

Mine will be a TRex450 of MAYBE that Hurricane 500, if that looks promising.

Since there's so much info/support about the TREx, though, I'm pretty sure that's what I'll get.

I'm having enough "fun" with that heli-fever frame and all the cobbling together to keep me satisfied in THAT department for a while! :roll:

[chopperdudes]

Mine will be a TRex450 of MAYBE that Hurricane 500, if that looks promising.

Since there's so much info/support about the TREx, though, I'm pretty sure that's what I'll get.


well, thinks it's a Trex 450 V2 for me. this blade was fun, but something really mysterious happened the last time i flew it, one of the little balls on the paddle control frame broke for no reason in mid air while i was doing a stationary roll bout 3ft off the ground. lucky me it went over and sat down hard on the grass but no appearant damage besides that, but... i'm still grounded. i think my goal is to learn inverted flying and maybe move up?. but i find that my goals have moved quite a bit... at first, it's... ok, i'll get into simple aerobatics, then get a better heli, then, when i done the loop, i was like, ok, maybe rolls and some flips? after that, stationary rolls, and then inverted hover, and now i'm setting a new goal for inverted flying... man, if i keep going like this, i'll never move up. well, i still have to wait for the parts to come out for the V2 :)

[chopperdudes]

double posted.

[matman]

The bcpp is my first heli, out of the box i didnt know how to fly but i remember not having much luck. I learned more from fixing it than flying it. Now, being an experienced CPP Pilot (LMAO) I have to counter with rudder,roll, and elev. to get the thing to hover. So you say this can be fixed :shock: Also, on my last flight,crash,bang break out the plastic for my LHS, I didnt cut my throttle/pitch trim real fast. Got her back together but now have notta at the 3 in 1. No LED no servo twitch, nothin. Did i burn my 3 in 1. Thanks for listening to my rants. Any help is great :hug: