anyone flying a stock belt RTF?

[jlira]

Anyone else here flying a completely out of box RTF belt? I know I could go get a nice fancy radio, $150 charger, carbon everything, upgrade head, etc but I kinda dig this stock kit - for $189 it seems like the best deal out there. I don't really plan on putting a bunch of hopups on it, I do basic flight nothing crazy so I think the stock setup is just fine. The only thing I need to do is grab 1 or 2 extra batteries so I can fly more often. This will help keep the pissed off factor under control when I do wreck it. I've only had it a few days, had about 6 hops on it already and after a bit of adjusting it flies great now. I want to practice a lot and get better using the stock RTF. This thing really was ready to fly, I'm very happy with it so far. It's a bit sensitive to wind being so lightweight (I'm used to flying larger gas helis) but other than that, it flies just great

:cheers

[FiremanJay]

Mine is still bone stock
Allthough i have ordered e few mods, They have not been added yet
got a call today from the wife and she wanted to know what i got from Hong Kong. That would be my servos I told her she just laughed and said oh ok.
So far she doesn't have any issues with me and this hobby. but the costs have been minimal, So we will see....My CNC Head will be here on Wed.
so I may not have a bone stock Belt come this weekend. Or I may just keep all the spare upgrades till i have a nasty crash, don't know yet.

[psilo]

I have 2 belt's. One is stock (other than an SG90 servo on the tail) the other is modded up. I must say, at my level of flying the mods are not required (but it looks so nice!!) except for the tx upgrade, it makes so much difference and am probably gonna put a new rx in the stock one so I can use my DX7 with it.

[Ian 777]

If your Belt flies well straight out of the box then stick with it. Some of them come quite badly put together then it pays to upgrade them as you tweak them:)

[Rotax800]

Except for the servos and blades, my Belt CP is bone stock. You'll want to get alot of the common spare parts that break in a crash. Also, I dumped the stock esky wood blades as they are crap. I use the Align fiber blades at about $14/pair. These babies can take some abuse. I crashed yesterday due to some bad windy weather. I was about 30' up and dove to the ground. One blade was stuck in the ground about 5". Never hurt it a bit.

[helihathnofury]

... but that energy has to dissipate somewhere!! What happened to the rest of the heli, cos if the answer to that "?" is "nothing", you can count yourself as being very lucky!!!!!!!!!

[tech12]

Hey rotax800, I'm now proud owner of bog stock cp. What would you say is common bits needed? my only experience so far is co-ax lama....

[mnwizard]

Hey rotax800, I'm now proud owner of bog stock cp. What would you say is common bits needed? my only experience so far is co-ax lama....

I just stepped up to a Belt from my Lamas too.

Here's the damage so far -

5 blades
4 feathering shafts
3 flybar mounts
1 tail blade
2 main blade clamps
1 flybar paddle arm
3 of the control arms that loop around the main blade holders
1 main shaft

I've added a full CNC set, and since then the damage is pretty much limited to feathering shafts, blades and plastic control arms.

The main thing I have had trouble getting used to is that the Belt is much more sensitive to control movement. With the Lamas you had to make large stick movements, with the Belt you make teeny, tiny little stick movements.

[jlira]

I know what you mean, it's tedious to fly sometimes because it's so sensitive to input on the sticks.