Micro-Maniac
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Location: Pasco,Washington Formerly: Captain Chaos
My Posts This: Topic Forum | Notice we tend to steer newbies away from the Hornets. You can browse through this forum and see that Hornets are very finicky and are best suited for those who like to tinker and spend lots of money to have the best flying micro heli.
I don't know if the new fixed pitch Hornets are less finicky than the rest of the Hornets or not.
Many poeple have different levels of interest in helis and micro helis. Some of us like to tinker and like knowing how helis work and how to program radios to fly them and all the nitty gritty from the get-go, while others just want the easiest/cheapest entry so they can test the waters to see if helis are really for them and progress from there.
I generally recommend the cheap/easy route and later decide where you want to go from there. The E-Flight Blade is $219 and is ready-to-fly with a radio. Very minimal setup, likely just charge the batteries and go fly. I believe they even test fly each of them before packaging to make sure they are setup and fly correctly. These aren't the best aerobatic performers, but a newb doesn't need it to be anyways. But it does fly decently well and can be mildly upgraded to perform aerobatics and the price is right.
In between the Blade and the Hornet is the T-rex and MX400. These are slightly larger helis and fall into the "mini heli" class. You will have to seperately buy/install/setup all the components yourself like you would for the Hornet, you will learn a great deal about helis and radio programming, and it should fly easier and/or more stable than both the Blade and Hornet. It's price will likely be equal to or less than a stock Hornet and same with it's aerobatic performance.
Blade = Cheap easy entry.
T-rex/MX400 = All around good helis that will take you as far as you want to go. I suppose they need space though.
Hornet = Eccentric tinkerer's heli. Finicky but gratifying for those with patience and meticulousness. Basically we like to tinker with our helis as much as, or more than, we like to fly them.
It's been a long time since I owned a fixed pitch heli and so I'm out of date and out of the loop there. The fixed pitch I did own flew horribly outdoors. |
