Anxious Newbie

[SnapRoll_92]

Ok I live In North Carolina, I'm 15. When I Lived In PA The E-flite Blade CP Had Just Come Out. At That Point I Had Been Flying Planes For About A Year. A Buddy Of Mine In My Club Got The Blade, He Had Absolutely No Helicopter Experience At All But He Was A Great Plane Pilot. I Saw Him Fly The Blade For The First Time And He Flew It Absolutely Great, Said It Was Easy As Pie. I Got Interested In Helis A Few Months Ago So I Started Savin And Went To The Hobby Shop And They Had Blade CP Pro And A Blade CX2. Like An Idiot I Got The Pro, Knowing I Wouldn't B Nearly As Good As My Friend But I Thought I Could Still Learn On It. Needless To Say, I Suck. Can't Fly It To Save My Life, But Would I Be Anyt Good At All With The CX2? It Looks Super Easy.

[j bomb]

The CX2 will be much easier to fly, however there are limits to what you can learn from it. You can learn orientation and basic control inputs, but other than that, it doesn't fly much like a collective pitch heli. My recommendation, if you are already prepared to spend more money, is to get a good simulator rather than a CX2. The cost is about the same, and you can learn a lot more from the sim. The Blade CP is known for being a difficult heli to learn on, but after some time on the sim, you will be able to do it.

A tip for making the Blade easier to fly is to move the pushrods to a shorter hole on the servo arms, this will make the cyclic much less sensitive.

[BarracudaHockey]

Excellent advice from JBomb

For the money you will get a lot more out of the sim.

[SnapRoll_92]

I Have Wanted A Flight Simulator For A Long Time Now But, My Dad Only Has Mac Stuff And No Sim Runs On Macintosh. But I Think I'm Going To Get The CX2 Anyway. And Thanks Alot For The Advice, I Will Adjust The Pushrod.
Silas

[DavZee]

I learned to hover a Blade CP Pro using this:

http://www.dream-models.com/eco/flying-index.html

No sim, I just followed the directions. I"m sure you can do it too if you follow the steps and don't take any shortcuts. I was hovering in a couple of days and it works with ANY model helicopter.

[Jermo]

Snap seriously skip the CX2. If you want to fly copters then get a sim. You may want to check with Realflight to find out if it will run on a Mac. Most Macs can run DirectX based programs and Realflight is based on DirectX.

If you want to just play with Toy Choppers I'd suggest the airhog for $39 are readyheli.com. Best bang for the buck IMHO for a toy.