Yes, a lot of people have been buying the cheap’er electric choppers and thinking they can fly them in a few minutes. Bzzzt !
RC choppers are harder to fly than a real chopper, except for those little single channel foamies 🙂
If you do want to seriously learn how to fly them, then there is some simple steps.
1> buy a simulator. Some of the dragonfly packages even have one included.
2>practise, practise, pactise and when you think you’re good enough on the simulator, then start logging your flying times on it and get 2 hours worth of full on simulator time and then you’re ready for the real thing.
3> train landing gear. Without the silly looking landing gear you’ll be replacing the main rotor blades in about 60 seconds. If you can have somebody like an instructor teach you, it’ll save some pain.
4> baby steps. You want to be able to lift the chopper 10cm of the ground and hold it there just hvering and level. When you can do that, without crashing, then you can take the beast higher. 2 or 3 metres. hover fly foward a couple of metres, hover and land.
5> You keep practicing that until you’re blue in the face and then put down two sheets of plywood and practise flying from on to the other and back.
New fly in wind, never fly into the sun and never believe that you you can autogyro on a flat battery ! You’d never fly a real helicopter and let it run out of fuel, don’t do it to a model aircraft, the results are the same. Crash & Burn ! 🙂
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