Official OC california heli flyers

[Long Nguyen]

I will but not now...

Currently I feel my heli pretty fast with the s9451's and I'm happy with that setting now.

[Airboss]

Look at my new power system for my Synergy. it overkills hahaha

JR8717 ready!

did you solder the power leads to the Rx?
is that a on/default switch? it looks solid .

[Lota Fun R]

Got the Raptor apart, need more parts....:roll:

Very expensive crash, dropped from about 100 feet. eFd up some chit mang!

Main shaft isn't bent but I changed it anyways just to be sure.

Faaakkk :thumbdown:

[Long Nguyen]

did you solder the power leads to the Rx?
is that a on/default switch? it looks solid .

Yes airboss, The leads were soldered straight to the pins. That on/off witch is the JR heavy duty switch. Sure it looks pretty muscle with the big wires.

[Airboss]

Yes airboss, The leads were soldered straight to the pins. That on/off witch is the JR heavy duty switch. Sure it looks pretty muscle with the big wires.

yeah it does looky beefy, I'm using the duralite 6v with the failsafe /on switch. if any of the E parts ( switch, Reg) fail it stays in the ON position.

[lowflyer101]

Ron told me, Jason Klause rocking the sky at AP today, darn, I miss the show.

How you doing ? I have not fly last few days. Too much work :(

[Airboss]

Ron told me, Jason Klause rocking the sky at AP today, darn, I miss the show.

How you doing ? I have not fly last few days. Too much work :(

I havnt flown this week also. but the #2 N9 is almost ready, just need some goodies from pegassus. and N9 #1 has a bad pitch slider retaining ring. and still need a muffler.

[zaskarkid]

Hi, I’m new to heli flying, but I’ve toyed with rc cars and lived in oc almost my whole life. I’m probably going to the get the trex 450 sev2 + the popular electronics b/c I need all the help I can get. Just started looking at the finless videos.

So what happens during the oc heli meets?

Hung

[lowflyer101]

Get a bigger heli Hung , trex 500 or something, bigger heli easy to learn, make your skill improving fast. Like BigT

[Airboss]

Hi, I’m new to heli flying, but I’ve toyed with rc cars and lived in oc almost my whole life. I’m probably going to the get the trex 450 sev2 + the popular electronics b/c I need all the help I can get. Just started looking at the finless videos.

So what happens during the oc heli meets?

Hung

welcome Zaskarkid, what city are you in?
Finless vids are very helpful.
do you have a sim, and what type?
Lowflyer is right about the larger helis. 450 set up mellow will be good 1st heli.
have experienced person check out our heli before flight.
building them is 1/2 the fun.
we are here to help you.

[zaskarkid]

You guys are right, I was told that bigger is more stable. So what servos and battery to look for? I'm in Fountain Valley.

[lowflyer101]

Servos and lipos that depend on size of heli. Trex 450 you will needs hitec hs65 mg $35 / piece, 3s2200 lipo $60-90 .
Trex 500 hitec hs 225 mg $28/ piece work great. Align 6s 2100 -2500 lipo $90 -125.

Gy401 with 9257 or 9650 servos work fine on both 450 and 500

[Long Nguyen]

Hung,

Do you have a simulator? That's literally a must for any pilot. I've learned everything on my simulator Real flight G3.5

A bigger heli will make you learn faster however, it costs much.

[HALO 3]

flying this weekend??:thumbup:

[bullseye1]

the 600N got the first round of upgrades tonight, Radix super stubz and G-Force metal bearing blocks, one way sleeve seezed to the one way and it was a pain in the a$$ to pull the main shaft out.

[lowflyer101]

I am building 600 N :) . U know me, I hate to buy kit and upgrade bit by bit hehe. Let see what got : all kasama head with quick uk matching color swash, damn this thing look sexy, align siler glass frame, damn this material kinda flex :( , os 50 hyper and align pipe. I am still building on my spare time. No servos and tail yet, what u guys prefer for electric and tail? Belt or tube ?

[Airboss]

Lowflyer, sounds like you got a nice heli. go with the 8717 on cyclic and 611/9256 for tail and multi gov. cool new nitro and all that BLING. wooohooo.

[Finless]

Look at my new power system for my Synergy. it overkills hahaha

JR8717 ready!

I wouldnt trust that standard RX switch to a high power system!
Heck I have seen those fail on a 4.8 nicad system before.

Bob

[Long Nguyen]

I wouldnt trust that standard RX switch to a high power system!
Heck I have seen those fail on a 4.8 nicad system before.

Bob

It is a heavy duty one from JR. Don't know if its really "heavy duty" as it says on the box but It has been working fine for 8 gallons. Anyway thank for the heads up.

[lowflyer101]

Anyone got the trex 600N manual? I needs it to assemble frame and install the os motor :) . I can fugure out how this thing glue together, but don't want make stupid mistake , mounting os upsidedown for inverted flying :)

[Airboss]

Anyone got the trex 600N manual? I needs it to assemble frame and install the os motor :) . I can fugure out how this thing glue together, but don't want make stupid mistake , mounting os upsidedown for inverted flying :)

you might be able to get one from horizon hobby, I have downloaded manuals for trex 450 there.

[Lota Fun R]

The only upside to my Raptor exploding is that it will have all the upgrades and more.

Complete metal head, push pull for elevator and pitch, gear ratio change to 8.27 from 7.92, it took a little while to spool up with that gearing and I always went easy on it, 3D clutch and clutch bell, 3D clutch liner, it had the stock 60 clutch, composite canopy, carbon tail boom. I'm sure there's more.............. :) Need to get some 30 minute epoxy to glue the clutch liner in.
I got the tunning sorted on the 91 Cspec and it was making great power.


I might have a couple of 450s to fly this weekend, at least one for sure. Not sure where I'm going to fly? Whittier, Arbor, Irvine? When my Raptor is flying Irvine is my first choice, I've only been to Arbor once and Whittier is usually crowded. :smokin:

[Aox]

Got kicked out of Harvard Park in Irvine today for flying.

I've had cops there watching me before... Been flying there for months...

Well, evidently baseball league season is starting soon, because there were some park wienies out there futzin with baseball bases. not the normal maintenance dudes I've been talking to for the past 4 months.

"Collin" the head park wienie, came over and said I couldn't fly model craft there. He said he didn't want to have to say anything to me, but his boss was there, and he would get in trouble if he didnt' kick me out. I said that was cool, and understood that shit rolls downhill.

I then asked him what time he and his boss were NOT there. He said 7 AM to 2 Pm would be the "best time to try to come fly".

I was flyin the Logo, so I can understand his fear, but there was NO ONE on any of the four soccer fields.

Bah. Not happy... Guess I'll have to take the 15 min to drive to the regular Irvine field from now on during lunch.

Park Wienie Collin said there was a sign about no planes posted. I went and looked and found nothing at one entrance, then drive to the other and found a little 8 x 11 sign that said no Model Airplanes. Irvine Muni Code 3 - 4 101 127. Sure enough. Looked it up and says no model airplanes in Irvine city parks.

So, I've gotta go before 2 from now on, and see if I get kicked out again. We'll see.

I thought about going down the "it's not an airplane, it's a helicopter" arguement, but figured that wasn't worth my time.

BAH!

-Aox

[HALO 3]

I hate when that happens :thumbdown:

[Airboss]

Colin the park wienie is a pawn, if it really was an issue with you flying dont you think the head park wienie would have said something? and your right about helis not being airplanes. sounds like a familliar issue. so hows the 500 flying?
no wienies allowed.