zore
Senior Heliman
Location: Jackson, New Jersey - USA
My Posts This: Topic Forum | (Video Link at the bottom)
I'm going to be honest with you guys. I bought my first blade cp pro new some time in January. I had a coax before that and could hover it etc. The blade cp pro was by far the worst heli ever made ever ever bar non ever. It crashed easy, it crashed often and it was expensive. Every time I flew it was 12 bucks.
I spend more money than I should have upgrading it. Lots of metal parts that did nothing but make it heavy and even more expensive to crash. I bought metal this and metal that, plastic blades, gyro, the list goes on and on. I found another one on ebay for cheap so I bought it for parts since the seller said it was broken. It wasn't broken. In fact it flew better than mine. Still too hard to fly and I still hated it.
I ripped my first blade cp pro apart for parts to be used on my new Honey Bee King II. A week later I bought a Belt CP so the Blade cp sat and sat and sat. I did hate it after all.
My luck was just a bit better with the 2 new heli's up until I got beaned by the belt cp in June. All the heli's sat until the end of august while I thought of a plan to learn to fly with out crashing. I suppose I also lost interest.
The last week of august I decided to do what I should have done from day one, buy a honey bee fixed pitch. This thing is really ready to fly out of the box. I did nothing too it other than throw on a set of better skids, a blade cp fly bar and a lipo battery, oh and I crashed it alot. And crashed it and crashed it and crashed it but it never broke.
This was the key you see. Instead of waiting 3 days for parts to fix the heli after 3 minutes of failed hovering. I just picked the fp out of the trees, snapped the head back on and off I went. After a 2 days I was flying thru a battery pack. After 3 I was landing on cars and after 4 I was doing a touch of nose in. Yes, with every new step I took, I crashed, but all it needed was to be snapped back together and it was off.
I ignored my other heli's up until a few days ago. I realized that I lacked the confidence to fly my bigger heli's still and no confidence = no fun. So i yanked out the blade cp and started tinkering with it. I replaced a few of the metal bits that really were just junk and put the stock stuff back on.
I've taken it for a few short flights just to see if I've improved, but it never really flew all that great. That is, up until today.
In the past I had plastic blades on it and i'd always find a way to cut the boom in half so I went back to cheap wood. I knew I'd just break them every time i flew so why spend the big dollars on expensive wooden blades.
The heli developed a pretty serious wabble so I replaced the main shaft and all the other bits that could cause a wabble and it never got any better. Then I figured I'd change the blades. All I had was a set of plastic symmetrical plastic blades. I knew what was most likely going to happen, but it was all i had and they were new.
I got home from work today and was eager to see in how many pieces I could break this thing into so I found a charged battery pack and out we went. I turned on the tx and plugged in the battery pack, I could hardly wait to end the fun with chunks of snapped carbon fiber. Give it some throttle and... and... lots of motor, no movement. Oh look, the jesus pin fell out. After 5 minutes of searching, one was located and replaced.
My palms were actually a bit sweaty since I had a little bit of confidence from flying the fixed pitch. I gave it some throttle and up it went. Holding the sticks with my thumb and finger (i read that hear and it works) I got the heli into a hover and held it there. Wait... dude what? Yes that's right. Yours truly, the blade cp hater, was flying his blade cp like he's never done before.
It was just sitting there hovering and doing what I told it to do. I moved it up and down and forward and backward. Nothing to fancy mind you, but it was, how should i say it, "neato"? I had a smile from ear to ear, even bigger than the one I had when I could hover the fp. This thing had defeated me time and time again. If i ever wanted a good dose of frustration, the blade cp was the ticket. I used to joke on how much time I could save if I just opened the blade cp box, took the heli out and smashed it on the table a few times. But this was not the case today.
I apologize for the long winded post. You can blame my excitement and my need to share. Oh right, video or your a fibber. I got some at the end of battery pack. I'll work on the filming aspect.
Blade CP Pro (not crashing) |
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Doesn't matter if its your first successful hover or piro or your first flip 
on the ground? YIKES!
I just randomly throw up my Blade cp videos- new and old, just to keep the thread alive 
