Progress Report

[MTboy]

Nice Sutty. I'v been having a blast with mine since my birthday and then today I took it to my brothers and we ended up calling the LSH to see if they had one. Last one was the RTF so we put it on hold and ran down to get it. Brother flew it twice and started really getting into it..lol
The MCX is alot of fun and it helps with taking my mind off the belt. Think everyone needs one.

[mnwizard]

Yep Sutty the mCX is the best "teaching heli" I've found. A complete noob can take the Tx and I can talk him thru a successful hover and flight.

And, more importantly, I can hover it with my left hand and hold a beer in my right.

[Heli Yea!]

So tomorrow I'll meet up w/David!(NewbtoRC) and I I've already met up w/Mike! Proving once again that these Freaks are really your friends! I think its nice when Freaks meet up and I hope to meet up w/more of you! As well as I hope you all meet up w/some other Freaks! I love this place!

[Grant_beltcp]

Well i say sutty hosts a helifreak fun-fly at his place when the weather gets better

Gerd, that 7100R has tempted me sooooooo many times lol. I just cant afford it at the moment lol.The switch glo is a nice feature, but if you have the align 2 in 1 with glow start on i wouldnt worry too much about getting it in soon. It might be worth raising your idle up curve abit, sounds pretty low to me. I think my back up curve is 100, 60, 100 or 100, 70,100.
Yours is fine for general flying around, you dont need much headspeed but if you start with flips etc you will want to raise it abit or add some throttle to cyclic mixing in so that it doesnt bog while using pitch and cyclic.
Do you have a digital tach? Ideally you would want to aim for around 1950/2000 ish rpm. I run 2200, but thats for 3D

[Ian 777]

Originally Posted by Grant

Well i say sutty hosts a helifreak fun-fly at his place when the weather gets better

+10

[helihathnofury]

Now that is an idea!!!!! A "helifreak" fly-in!!!! Game ON !!!!!!!!!!

[Jonnyheli]

Gerd, the needle is probably ok. It's probably just your mixture.

I agree with Grant, up the throttle curves. I know your aim at the moment is to get it in the air and running nicely. But once you are happy with everything increase your idle up

-Jonny

[Heli Yea!]

So looks like Sutty's house it is! Oh, say mid May!

[Jonnyheli]

Originally Posted by mnwizard

Yep Sutty the mCX is the best "teaching heli" I've found.

Aww, now I feel sorry for the poor old Esky lama

-Jonny

[psilo]

Originally Posted by Grant_beltcp

Well i say sutty hosts a helifreak fun-fly at his place when the weather gets better

Gerd, that 7100R has tempted me sooooooo many times lol. I just cant afford it at the moment lol.The switch glo is a nice feature, but if you have the align 2 in 1 with glow start on i wouldnt worry too much about getting it in soon. It might be worth raising your idle up curve abit, sounds pretty low to me. I think my back up curve is 100, 60, 100 or 100, 70,100.

Picked up the 7100R for £90 off ebay It didn't come with the Align 2 in 1 just a straight regulator, hence the reason for thinking of getting the switchglo. Those curves were just for initial flying around and setup, I will start tweaking once I have a couple more test flights under my belt and am going to pick up the tacho I saw in the LHS in kuwait next week

[psilo]

Originally Posted by Heli Yea!

So looks like Sutty's house it is! Oh, say mid May!

Yeah let's all go fly round Sutty's

Make sure i have plenty of notice so I can be back from Q8

[mnwizard]

Originally Posted by helihathnofury

Now that is an idea!!!!! A "helifreak" fly-in!!!! Game ON !!!!!!!!!!

We'll have to have 2 Freak Fun Flys, one for each side of the pond.

[sutty]

Originally Posted by psilo

Yeah let's all go fly round Sutty's

Wow, I'm really glad I checked in of the forum today or I might have missed out. Can I come too.

[mnwizard]

Originally Posted by sutty

Wow, I'm really glad I checked in of the forum today or I might have missed out. Can I come too.

Of course you can come silly boy, you're bringing the beer!

[Heli Yea!]

So I met up with David(NewbtoRC) we got his heli all set up! Let me just say this stock head stock blades and I got them to track perfect! He was quite pleased and had some nice 15-20 sec hovers! He is doing great! We had a good time and some great beers!(which he brewed) Thanks David we'll do it again and get a vid of your progress!

[psilo]

Sutty, it's your fault!! I have just got back from the LHS (went to get a plug spanner) and have a Mcx in my hands

[MTboy]

Originally Posted by psilo

Sutty, it's your fault!! I have just got back from the LHS (went to get a plug spanner) and have a Mcx in my hands

Now take your time with it.. These things can be really crazy.. Good luck

[psilo]

Guy in the LHS advised to take out the screw that holds the flybar in place. Apparently with it in the flybar often breaks when crash but with it out it just pops out instead. Anyone else done this on their Blade MCX?

[MTboy]

I havent heard or done that with mine. Really I find if you just shut it down on impack and let it fall it dont break anything. Atleast for 3 weeks I havent broke anything... I do know if you angle the board upfront more you can get better FF.

[mnwizard]

Ya, me neither, I've crashed it all over the place and never had a problem with the flybar. The thing is so light it just bounces. In fact, I haven't broken anything on it yet.