Which Electric Heli ???

[moose]

Well guys I've always been a fixed wing guy and quite honestly hated it when the Heli guys showed up at the field cause they where loud ....very loud and always hovered around my head giving me the sense that one of those blades was going to slice me in half, not to mention that I could no longer here my gasser so overall it was a real PITA.

The saying goes if you can't beat em join em so I bought a Hirobo 50 (shuttle) with all the possible upgrades that one could think of for a killer price off one of my friends who very sadly decided to part from the hobby. I of course having no previous heli knowledge or experience decided to park it and buy a Heli Max Axe CP from tower hobbies to bash out and get some stick time before going for the real thing.

I have a few problems with this Heli and would like to know if this is natural or if my choice of helis was just poor.

1) The battery doesn't last more than 5 minutes.
2) The tail has to be constantly flown (you can not trim it) and has different settings through out the flight as the battery gets weaker (its got an electric motor on the tail rotor)
3) The sticks are as sensitive as hell.....I mean the whole flight is done with no more than a couple of mm movement on the sticks.
4) I feel it is really a hand full as it is always wanting to go somewhere and twitching around.
5)WHEN steady in a hover the whole fuselage is kinda leaning sideways.

I've been told buy a couple of buddies that this plane is more difficult to fly than a normal/standard glow Heli, and I am the only one flying mode 1 so I can't really get anyones help out here.

I think I've probably bored you guys by now but my question is which heli would be good for inside the house flying (currently where I'm flying this one) as most of the summer the temperature her is in the range of 45 C / 113 F and real humid.

I'm looking for a reasonably priced heli that is good for indoor flying for a newbee to heli's ......that can be taken outdoors when the weather gets better.

Thanks for your inputs !!!

[moose]

come on guys.....there must be a Heli pilot out there that can offer some help ????

[KingAirGuy]

I don't know if I can answer your question. I flew large gas helicopters before planes, never electric helis. But from looking at a lot the trex helicopters seem pretty nice for the money and if you can spend a little extra get the 600 size. Bigger is always better!

[aerohead]

Check out the Gaui Hurricane 550

[RAPTOR357]

I'll say get a trex 450 or 600 and don't get the bling out version until you are ready to thrash it around.

[Neogenesis]

If you looking for small.....got with the TREX 450. Great for indoors, but if there is a little more than a whisper of wind.....they will get blown around. If you want something a bit bigger look at the Century Swift. It's a .30 sized heli....but flies incredible. Parts availability has not been a problem, cost of those replacement parts has been very reasonable. Century also has a pretty good selection of metal upgrade parts...so if you want to bling it out you can. The main decision maker for me was what packs I could run. The Swift only needs a 6s1p maximum to really perform well. I personally went with 6s1p 15C packs to learn on and I've got a well powered setup that would be capable of basic aerobatics if the pilot was up to the task. To get similar performance out of the TREX 600. you are looking at 8 to 10 cell packs from what I've been reading. That is a lot more cost in just batteries and chargers alone.

I can't say enough how much I enjoy mine. I went from no heli experience to hovering and starting forward flight on all my own. Like I said...no previous heli experience and no outside instruction. I do attribute on other thing to my sucess though....and that's the video's on helifreaks' website. www.helifreak.com There are full build video's in the tech room portion of the site and they gave a lot of insight and the proper way to setup the heli. He's done a lot of different helis so do check it out...it's worth taking the time to do.

Good Luck and let us know what you choose,

Neo