Poll: Drag out closet heli pilots

[jongurley]

[excelpoint]

Just bought a Blade 400. So far so good, tail needs a little work but not too bad.

[Toro]

Full on out of the closet .... thats what I am and I am proud !

[restinfine]

I fly both, I started with planes for years, but helis are great to work on,just bolt new parts on.
Go try to fix a pile of sticks............Raptor 90,50 and mini titan, and a pile of profile 3d planes...

[Fudman]

	Quote: Originally Posted by Toro
	Full on out of the closet .... thats what I am and I am proud !

can we get a good pic of that green one on the far right please?

[TROYS PIT-BITCH]

I've just started flying a Raptor 50 titan, good fun, still love my planes tho

[jongurley]

Here is a couple of pics of me bangin the trex600nitro at a lunch demo at our club IMAA flyin,, scraped the main blades once and the tail rotor once, pretty intense

[sherman89]

I fly both planes and heli's, a 102" Yak and a few Align 600e heli's. I fly the heli to keep the left hand in the game, after 35 years of planes my left hand had become brain dead so with a Tx tray and the heli my left hand is back in the game and my rudder and throttle control skills for the airplane are much better. The left hand is a must in the heli world. I sure wish the Radio manufacturers would get back into single stick. I flew single stick for years in the 70's, they are the ultimate for radio control. I would pay a premium to get one. If you had the opportunity to spend some time getting used to a single stick you would not go back to the 2 stick. The single stick connects you to the plane and for IMAC it would be the perfect connector to the plane.

[cjcyclesrc]

Heli's definitely help with the left stick. I saw Curtis' 9303 that he converted to single stick.

The last time I had my raptor out my friend told me he was officially grounding it until I change the motor Bearings. We looked and I have 61 hrs. on it and still on the same bearings(O.S. Hyper 50). I hope the next set lasts that long. I think I've got my money's worth out of it. I have the Kasama setup for 12.5+/- , Radix Blades, 8.7 Gears, Kasama Fan, MP 2, 1950 h.s., and always ran Cool Power 15%MV.

I pulled out my 600np last night and started doing some work on it. I traded my old 68" Extreme Flight yak for the 600, tore it down about 6 months ago to do some upgrades, and it has been sitting on the shelf since then. I still had my old trusty raptor 50 to fly so it wasn't at the top of the list. It's crazy because i've got 7 Heli's and only fly one. Now that I Just finished my 110" Yak it is time to get the T-Rex going.

Here's what it's going to have.

T-rex 600N Pro
OS Hyper 50
Hatori Bobby Watts
TST V-Blades
Curtis Super Stubs w/440mm Flybar
Radix Tail Blades
3- Futaba 9452's Swash w/Align servo Wheels
1- Futaba 9252 Throttle
Futaba 611 Gyro
Rev Max
Arizona Regulator
Flight Power 2s Lipo
G-Force V2 High Efficiency Fan
K&B Orange 3D Dampeners

I'm looking forward to flying the 600. The two main things I don't like about the Raptor 50 are the Collective doesn't feel crisp and in a fast dive it will pitch suddenly. I pretty much narrowed the mushy collective down to the Plastic pitch arm flexing. The CCPM on the T-Rex should eliminate that and the under slung fly bar should eliminate the pitching.

[plane]

My R50 pitched too until I installed this:

http://www.quickuk.eu/products/48/ra...washplate.html

Rock solid in FF Flight. I imagine by installing some of their other metal stuff would clean up the collective also.

[cjcyclesrc]

Could you feel the play in your swashplate? It tracks straight hands off in fast foward flight, but if I put it in a tailslide or a fast auto it pitches hard.

Here's a pic of my rappy.

[restinfine]

A raptor 50 nose dive problem, can be cured buy changing the angle on your paddles on the

flybar.



Raptor 50 , 600n, evo 50, 2 Raptor 90

[plane]

I had play in the metal swashplate so I installed a new plastic one I had laying around and even it had play. I could feel the play in the paddles and it was a substantial amount. After the QuickUK swash was installed all play disappeared. The bearing on it is twice the size of a stock one and it has set screws to dial out any play that should develop over time. Quality product.

[SHANERC]

TORO,s photo made me use 7 or 8 words of profanity in the same sentance---OUTLOUD

ME LIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rodan]

Just joined here 'cause I'm building an EF 50cc Extra, but my primary RC interest is scale helis. Currently flying an R50/MD500 and a TRex 600E stretched to 60 size in a flybarless Jet Ranger. So the answer for me is BOTH!