Hi All,
It's been a while since my last post, but I've been reading the forum lots
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Anyways, I am currently teaching myself to fly my Walkera 1#B (http://rchobby.com.au/product_info.p...roducts_id=464). Am still in the "Learn to Hover" stage, but I'm getting better at it. Now I'm averaging 4 or 5 battery packs through it before I have to send off for more spares!
I don't know if it's my dodgy skills or the Heli but I'm finding it really difficult to even hover and I'm ready to believe all the bad things people say about the Walkera brand, however the price of spares is real cheap which is a real plus at my current skill level as i'm sure I'm singlehandly keeping the local supplier in business.
Anyways, even at this early stage I can see that I want to upgrade to something of a better quality. I've gotten a go-ahead from my Financial Adviser (read Missus) to start saving for a new Heli. Hopefully by the time I have enough in the bank for a new Heli my skills will have increased enough to make me feel more confident about flying a more expensive machine.
My Question is which Heli should I go for? I'd like to stick with Electric but I don't want to spend a huge amount of money otherwise it will take me forever to save. I'm thinking a budget of around $500 might give me a good starting point. I don't really want to spend much more than that otherwise I'd be to worried about all that money flying around ready to smash itself to bits at the first oppotunity.
I'm thinking of maybe looking at a Blade 400 but thats mostly because of the DX6 transmitter that comes with it, which from what I can understand, can be used with other Heli's as well. If not the Blade then something of a similar size or type and I'd like to get some opinions of what sort of Heli I should be looking at and why.
I'm not sure if I should go for a RTF or a Kit. I've not built a kit before but i guess that would give me the advantage of buying the bits as I go along and spread the cost over a number of weeks/months but I'm not sure of my building ability which is why the RTF option is very attractive.
Mick
It's been a while since my last post, but I've been reading the forum lots
Anyways, I am currently teaching myself to fly my Walkera 1#B (http://rchobby.com.au/product_info.p...roducts_id=464). Am still in the "Learn to Hover" stage, but I'm getting better at it. Now I'm averaging 4 or 5 battery packs through it before I have to send off for more spares!
I don't know if it's my dodgy skills or the Heli but I'm finding it really difficult to even hover and I'm ready to believe all the bad things people say about the Walkera brand, however the price of spares is real cheap which is a real plus at my current skill level as i'm sure I'm singlehandly keeping the local supplier in business.
Anyways, even at this early stage I can see that I want to upgrade to something of a better quality. I've gotten a go-ahead from my Financial Adviser (read Missus) to start saving for a new Heli. Hopefully by the time I have enough in the bank for a new Heli my skills will have increased enough to make me feel more confident about flying a more expensive machine.
My Question is which Heli should I go for? I'd like to stick with Electric but I don't want to spend a huge amount of money otherwise it will take me forever to save. I'm thinking a budget of around $500 might give me a good starting point. I don't really want to spend much more than that otherwise I'd be to worried about all that money flying around ready to smash itself to bits at the first oppotunity.
I'm thinking of maybe looking at a Blade 400 but thats mostly because of the DX6 transmitter that comes with it, which from what I can understand, can be used with other Heli's as well. If not the Blade then something of a similar size or type and I'd like to get some opinions of what sort of Heli I should be looking at and why.
I'm not sure if I should go for a RTF or a Kit. I've not built a kit before but i guess that would give me the advantage of buying the bits as I go along and spread the cost over a number of weeks/months but I'm not sure of my building ability which is why the RTF option is very attractive.
Mick