Turbinator
Senior Heliman
Location: Nanticoke, PA
My Posts This: Topic Forum | I LOVE my converted Vertol. Hardly flew it when it was glow but fly it often now. I have the older model, mechanically mixed, 4 servos with 3 gyros. It is different to fly from a normal helie mostly because of the 3 blade heads, the normal multi pitchy syndrom. I still fly my original wooden blades, would LOVE to try a carbon fancy set but I hear they are likel 2-300 a head, pricey. But having experience with larger 4 blade multi heads I know blades make all the difference, I fly OF on them, they are heavy and act like their own gyro when spinning. I also contemplated trying a Helicommand Rigid but have yet to find a used one as 600 on one of those is as bad as 2 blade sets at 2-300 a set!! It would be different laying out the cash following a known success story but being the geanie pig makes it tougher to part with the cash. My E-Vertol is lighter then nitro version with .46, pipe, radio battery and full load of fuel. Just doing the swap from a flying glow model to E-converted my hovver point was below half stick at same rotor RPM which tells me the helie had lighter take off weight with out even putting it on a scale. I'm getting a solid 10 minute flight on 3850's and putting 33-3400 mah back into the battery after flights so I'm not discharging them too deeply. I have a set of 5000's which go almost 13 minutes safely. I would start with teh 5000's, they are only slightly larger and heavier and put out a flight time almost equal to a tank of glow with the .46, but no noise and no mess!!! I'll be starting a batch of mounts soon, put requests in if your thinking about getting one that way you won't have to wait for one. |
and the hang time is just too cool!!!!!
Stan
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