blade 400

[bigadd43]

Hi guy's i want to know about the blade 400 a bit more where i can fine good links tips is it a good heil and what is the radio like on full range stuff i dont know much about them need help thanks..guy's and heil freaks is a good web to as well as flying giants...

[Fly-guy]

I've had a chance to have a decent fly/play with the heli and the radio.

For a $450-500 RTF heli, WOW is about all that I need to say.

I fly a Thunder Tiger Mini Titan as my own heli, and had heard nothing but good about the B400 so was itching to have a go. It is a tad smaller than the Mini Titan but it still flies extremelly well and has a solid feel straight out of the box. We took one out of the box as an experiment to see how it really does fly right out of the box. We strapped on some training gear (for the helis own safety), charged the battery and went for it. Didn't even check the heli over :P About 3 clicks of back trim (fixed by battery positioing later) and a few of aileron and it was set. After some heavy bashing on the rudder stick we confirmed that the gyro was set pretty well and is keen to hold its heading like it should. The digital servos and 2.4ghz give a nice locked in touch to the heli. Probably a bit more direct than the setup on my Mini Titan.

Pitch and throttle curves seemed to be set beautifully out of the box. Everything is set so the heli has a bit of nip in it but not overly agressive for beginners. My biggest complaint is the stupid E-Flite connector on the battery and speed control, but this is an easy fix!


The DX6i is also a pretty nice radio to operate. Being a JR user I found the menu pretty easy to follow. Only one button, how hard can it be? My only criticism of it is that it *feels* cheap to hold, being so light a tad on the chunky side. Feel certainly doesn't limit what it can do though. The radio is a full range radio and compatible with all of JRs and Spektrums DSM2 receivers, we also tested this just to make sure :P While I personally wouldn't go throwing it in my Extra 260 (purely because it would leave me 2 channels short) I would have absolutely no hesitation using it my Mini Titan or any of my glow powered aircraft.

For the money, I was extremely impressed. Want to take the heli out now and see what's really in it

[bigadd43]

thanks mate i'll look in to that

[mangoats]

Fly-guy nailed it.