Does it help to have a CX

[Kindling Maker]

Does it help to have a CX and then go to the CPP. I started with the CP and it got real expensive. Plus I have a hard time getting parts. I went ahead and ordered a CX in hopes that it would help. I have less problems with breaking the CX and I can fly it indoors, not many places big enough to fly the CPP in doors. I can hover the CPP fairly decent in ground effect and kaap it in about 10 feet. I hope that having the CX well help alittle

[LITHIUMSTATIC]

It should but only with orantation.

[Kindling Maker]

Thanks, Well it is not totaly waisted money, I do enjoy flying my buddies CX. Hey Lithiumstatic, I am from South Texas down by Brownsville.

[LITHIUMSTATIC]

How come your thingy says Iraq? You a solder?

[Kindling Maker]

No I am not a Soldier, I am a civilian Contractor, I build roads, and stuff like that. I came over here to support our troops, no reason for them to live like I did during Desert Storm, that was miserable. I flew WW1 and WW2 aircraft for a museum before I came over here and I got into Helis to fly something, now I am hooked

[Rick Rotorhead]

IMO the best CX is a Blade CX2. Stable and great fun to fly indoors when you can't get out. If its very calm (very very) you can fly it outside around the garden.
That do help with the practice, but due to the excessive stability they don't really bank in turns, its pretty much all done with the tail - though you will find cyclic handy for avoiding walls indoors. Only trouble is a slight puff of wind and they just can't penetrate forwards. Keep it for those dead calm summer evenings :D

[Kindling Maker]

Yea we found out about the no wind. We let one of the guys over here fly it, he had just landed his Trex 600 and fired up the CX2 and away it went. He chopped the throttle at about 30 feet in the air and down it came but amaxingly, no damage to anything except the body and then nothing that tape would not fix. I just got mine in 3 days ago and have put about 9 packs thru it, I am still waiting on parts for my CPP but I am flying.

[Yavor]

You guys have me laughing. I have only flown the CX2 for months and just got a 450se and sim. One day on the sim and I don't think I'll ever be able to fly a CP heli.
The term that got me laughing was "excessive stability". Golly, I wish I could dial in
some excess stability into this CP thing. It's one giant leap - with nothing in-between.

Sim crasher Bob :smokin:

[kgfly]

I just bought a CX2 to help me with orientation training and thats after owning and flying (if you can call the punishment I apply to a heli "flying") two T450s and a QJ-EP8v2. It should turn up next week so I'll soon know whether it helps our not.


Bob - Try flying bigger helis in the sim, they are easier to fly and learn on, then work your way back to the T450. If you have Phoenix, try the Raptor 30, Raptor 50 sport or the T600. On any other sim, choose a mild 50-size heli rather than a wild 3D one. Mind you, I can hover all orientations, hover inverted, fly FFF, circuits, figures 8s, do flips, rolls, stalls etc and am starting BF on the sim, but struggle to survive a single circuit in real life. The sims are good, but somehow it's not really translating to confidence for real life flying for me.

Good luck.