eflite blade cp?

[TonyThomasian]

How is the eflite's blade cp? thinking to get one for hovering in the living room, 3ding outside, and flying around in the gym

[kevgofly]

It's a great heli, but:
Flying in the living room, it's a little "twitchy". I've flown mine in the living room, garage and such, but the room gets very small very fast. You can pretty much just hover, wich is cool, for a little while.

3D'ing outside, well, it won't really 3D without a lot of changes (read, money). It will loop, roll, stall turn, even 540 stall turn, hover inverted, fly inverted, fly backwards (but you've gotta really be on the rudder, not a heading lock gyro). I've been able to do all of this (I'm new to helis, so I don't have any super human powers) with minimal upgrades. I swapped the stock motor for a 9T pinion motor (comes with the aerobatic upgrade), added heat syncs, using 1320 Thunder power 3 cell lithiums packs and the fully symetrical blades. There are some other cheap upgrades worth doing, like the 3 bearing bell-hiller blade grips, about $20. A direct drive tail rotor assy will help tail authority and precision, the aluminum swash plate will be a decent investment for the long hall because you wont develop slop in it $40.

Flying around the gym, now your talking! With the 9T motor, 3 cell lypos, heat syncs and flat bottom blades, this thing is a blast to just fly around. I get easily 15 minutes on a pack. There are several scale heli canopies out there that can be adapted to it also, bell 222 with retracts, Hughes 500, Jet Ranger.. very cool in the gym. It's fast and pretty manueverable.

For a $200 heli, this thing is amazing. I don't think I'd go sinking a lot of money in it ($145 aluminum head) but for an inexpensive easy to operate and maintain heli, you can't beat it. If you want to get serious about 3D and such, look into the T-rex.

Kev

[TonyThomasian]

thanx very much!

[fastlif]

I agree, very much worth the money. For what it is, and its cost, its pretty much unbeatable. Trex, no, fun cheap heli, yes.

[Sukhoikid]

Yes this heli is worth getting. I have really enjoyed mine. I slammed mine into a fence the third day and only thing it did was crack one blade and I put CA on it and it fixed that But now I am currently changing to the aerobatic kit part.

[ILLUSION258]

I HAVE FOR SALE CHEAP IF ANY ONE WANTS ONE HAS MANY EXTRA PARTS AND 3 BATTS