NANO CPX SERVICE AND FLYING LINKS FOR NEWBIES

[Imzzaudae]

Flying Nano CPX for beginners

This is the most honest video I have seen of a guy learning how to fly Nano!
Yes there are guys with golden fingers out there, but for the rest of us,

This is what learning how to fly Nano really looks!

Understand that you are not alone, and it's going to take time and practice.

We have been there and we understand what you are going through!

Learning to fly my Blade Nano CP X. Day 2, Flight 3. (6 min 49 sec)

Newbies guide to flying NANO

A good place to start

https://www.helifreak.com/showthread...81#post3854881

NANO CPX AS A CP TRAINER

https://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=595604

FLYING NANO FOR NEWBIES
https://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=596003

Collective sensitivity

https://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=594796

Hovering for beginners

https://www.helifreak.com/showthread...58#post5581658

Flight simulator!

https://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=450700


Phoenix Flight Simulator
Step-by-step guide for DX6i
By ArchmageAU
https://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=561059

Understanding Dual rates and Expo

EXPO 101

http://video.helifreak.com/?subpath=...me=expo101.wmv

DUAL RATES 101

http://video.helifreak.com/?subpath=...alrates101.wmv

Understanding Pitch and Throttle Curves

PITCH AND THROTTLE CURVES 101
http://video.helifreak.com/?subpath=finless/generic&filename=curves101.wmv

Pitch & Throttle Curves Explained
https://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=412667

DX6i Transmitter

Newbies guide to the DX6i for RC helicopters by ArchmageAU
https://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=580508

Spektrum DX6i - Changing the throttle strip

Spektrum DX6i - Changing the throttle strip (3 min 8 sec)

Tame DX6i Settings for Nano Newcomers
https://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=595748

IDLE UP FOR INTERMEDIATE NANO PILOTS
https://www.helifreak.com/showthread...56#post5583656

Zero pitch setup DX6i
https://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=596258

DX4e and DX5e Transmitters

Binding DX4e or DX5e + Dual rates and Exponential

https://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=447589


Removing the click from your DX4e or DX5e throttle/ collective stick

https://www.helifreak.com/showthread...56#post4229956

Hot glue fix for trim tabs DX4e

https://www.helifreak.com/showthread...37#post4231937

Zero pitch setup for DX4e
https://www.helifreak.com/showthread...62#post5583162

Lithium Polymer Batteries!

What every newbie needs to know.

If you want you Li-po to last, Use a timer and do not over fly your batteries!
Nano 4 minutes hard flying. A little more just hovering around the living room

Be patient. Let your Li-po cool 5 minutes after flying!

Stick to a lower charge rate for a longer battery life!
Eflite 1S 3.7V 150mAh 25C Li-po are rated at 3C Charge rate.

Charge at .2 and they last very well.

SERVICING YOUR NANO

Factory Brushless Upgrade: Nano CP X
by BLADE (BLH3325
http://www.horizonhobby.com/products/BLH3325

Manual.pdf
http://www.horizonhobby.com/pdf/BLH3325-Manual.pdf

Blade Nano CPX factory brushless upgrade (install and test flight) (6 min 18 sec)

Rudder Response
In the Travel adjust menu of DX6i
Increasing Rudder value to 125% left and right dramatically improves rudder response!

Dealing with tail wag and lubricating your Nano CPX
https://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=595314

Nano - Main blades how tight should they be?
https://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=595427

Checking your Feathering Shaft
https://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=595547

Push gear up like this
https://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=595479

Fixing Tail Vibration
https://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?p=5577301#post5577301

Balancing Nano Main Blades
https://www.helifreak.com/showthread...14#post5583314

Swash Leveling
https://www.helifreak.com/showthread...29#post5581029

Cleaning Nano Servos
This video shows how to clean MCPX servos.
I have cleaned my Nano servos and it is exactly the same,
Only Nano servos are even smaller than MCPX servos.

Blade mCPx Linear Servo Cleaning (8 min 29 sec)

MEMBER TIPS & UPDATES
https://www.helifreak.com/showthread...86#post5585886

Mug shots
Helicopters and flying videos

https://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=596571

Board repairs

Megasmicros
http://www.megasmicros.com/default.asp

Top Copter Productions
http://www.topcopter.com/category-s/1841.htm

Life after NANO

Once you are comfortable flying NANO, I very highly recommend MCPX BL.


MCPX-BL a fantastic outdoor helicopter for taking you beyond the living room into school yard flying. MCPX BL is what every small field or schoolyard helicopter should be!


It's extremely powerful, very fast and a blast to fly. You can learn high speed flight and turns at a distance of about 50 yards. How to stop in a hurry. Stall turns, descending landing patterns, slowing from high speed and high altitude flight, approaches that naturally bring the helicopter tail in configuration for landing or hovering.

And if you are into Flipping, rolling, flying upside down! MCPX BL has you covered.


After a little time flying Nano you will have no problem flying MCPX-BL.

My normal mode settings for BL.

Travel adjust everything is 100% accept pitch and it's 75% both ways!

Normal mode. Very tame for first few flights, rate switch position 0
Aileron 0 DR 50 Expo 30
Elevator 0 DR 50 Expo 30
Rudder 0 100 No Expo

Normal mode. A little more control authority for sport flying, rate switch position 1
Aileron 1 DR 65 Expo 30
Elevator 1 DR 65 Expo 30
Rudder 1 100 No Expo

Normal mode.
Throttle curve 0 60 80 80 80
Pitch curve 25 25 50 75 100 take note of reverse pitch, so when your up high you can push it down, just another tool in the tool box! But don't pull the collective down past 1/4 when flying in normal mode, you will shut the motor off and spin out.

My stunt mode settings

Stunt mode. Very tame rate switch position 0
Aileron 0 DR 50 Expo 30
Elevator 0 DR 50 Expo 30
Rudder 0 100 No Expo

Stunt mode. A little more control authority rate switch position 1
Aileron 1 DR 65 Expo 30
Elevator 1 DR 65 Expo 30
Rudder 1 100 No Expo

Throttle setting 80 80 80 80 80 in the Stunt section of throttle curve menu until you are used to the helicopter, then 100 100 100 100 100

Pitch curve menu, Stunt section 0 25 50 75 100

3D settings for DX6i are in the Manual.

Watch the tail. MCPX Bl has an adjustable tail gyro!
Service the main shaft and swash bearings first they will be dry!

Run the tail gyro about 90 and see how it feels! Adjust the gain up or down .5 at a time until it holds but does not wag. You should be able to go from hover to full up collective as fast as you can move the stick and the tail hold rock soled.

Do that outdoors as the helicopter vanishes! Look for it about 100' up climbing at 500 ft a minute.


A little MCPX-BL helicopter time, you will have no problem stepping into 450X class helicopter.
They fly the same only much more powerful & 10 times as fast. Oh - they cost a lot more to fix after unscheduled landings!


Could you skip MCPX BL and go from Nano and fly 130X, 300X or 450X ?


Yes some guys manage this step and have little or no problem. It's up to the pilot to take an honest look at his or her skill level and make the appropriate decision!

Heli Skills and Setup 101 - LOOK here first!

https://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=41692

[xsinx]

Haha, this video is so exactly like me when I got mine. I was watching this video while waiting for mine to get delivered and I was like OK, this guy is a total douche, how hard can it be? Well, lesson learned... Took me over a week and several hours of simulator work to not look exactly like that guy.

[ks9818]

+2 for me, lol...thats exacly how i looked.!!

[Dustin Mustangs]

STICKY THIS!!!

[ronj]

Great job Ron. Boy, that 1st video takes me back. I remember spending hours doing the same thing.

+1 to sticky

[edin508]

I needed to see that, I don't feel so all alone now. lol

[Imzzaudae]

I remember night after night after night. After everyone went to bed, I pushed the dinning room table into the living room over the coffee table so I had room.

First withCX2, MSR, 120SR and a ton of flight simulator time!
Then came MCPX and what a night mare that was
Took a little time and a lot of patients. I don't think there is a thing in my house without MCPX blade dings in it.

[snake6778]

The video of the guy learning to fly was awesome. Good information on the rest of the post as well.

When I got my first heli it was a blade CP pro. I was too stubborn to get the training sticks so I learned the hard (Read: expensive) way. The funny thing about flying that heli was it was durable except for the blades. It had the covered balsa blades. If you even hit the grass the wrong way it would pull the covering off of the blades and immediately throw it off balance. There were some sets of blades that I was able to repair but essentially every time I had a bad landing I was back at the hobby store getting more blades. I went through at least a couple hundred dollars worth of blades until I realized the carbon blades were more durable.

I still remember the day that I bought that heli. I was on the way home and pulled over because I couldn't wait. Stopped in a parking lot and tried to lift off. Of course it tipped over and hit the blades. I had to turn around and go back to the hobby store and get a new set!! That was embarassing!

[Guapo131]

Originally Posted by Imzzaudae

I remember night after night after night. After everyone went to bed I pushed the dinning room table into the living room over the coffee table so I had room.

First with MSR then 120SR then came MCPX and what a night mare that was
Took a little time and a lot of patients. I don't think there is a thing in my house without MCPX blade dings in it.

After some nagging from my better half about all the dings on the furniture, I discovered that you can drape a blanket over the coffee table (or anything else really - like the TV) and the blanket basically protects it from the dings from the Nano CPX blades.

[ArchmageAU]

Originally Posted by Imzzaudae

I remember night after night after night. After everyone went to bed I pushed the dinning room table into the living room over the coffee table so I had room.

First with MSR then 120SR then came MCPX and what a night mare that was
Took a little time and a lot of patients. I don't think there is a thing in my house without MCPX blade dings in it.

I can understand. I learned with a mini mall coax, then a micro FP (45 degree flybar), then nano. All in the master bedroom (king size bed is a great soft landing platform).

Consequently. no furniture dings But I like the idea of a blanket.

(Against all sanity, I did some piro-hover practice in the same space with my spin8000 130x. A mishap with that would damage things (walls, furniture, etc..). Fortunately no issues )

[Synchronome]

Found this thread whilst looking back, a wealth of info for the nano newbie,

STICKY PLEASE !!!

[MxM111]

I second STICKY request. This is very useful.

STICKY! STICKY! STICKY! STICKY! STICKY! STICKY!

[Neunerball]

I agree! Good source of information for a beginner!

Sticky please!