Who messes with RC Helicopters here?

[gates559]

I just ordered a bunch of spare stuff online, plus a blade msr that was on sale for 60.00. Hopefully I wont be so nervous about crashing the little guy. I heard they are pretty tough.

 

[AreWeThereYet]

I ordered all my spare parts from greathobbies splatter in town is too expensive

 

[gates559]

Yeah that's where I just ordered from. Too easy to shop online.

 

[Braddock54]

The WL Toys V911 i've been learning on is super tough and really cheap on parts. I think its about 5 bucks for a 10 pack of blades from Hong Kong. Takes about 3 weeks to get but hey. Gotta do an order here shortly, finally broke my two spare blades. Even canopies are a couple bucks, etc.

Sumx54, what are your thoughts on the Blade 300X?

 

[sumx54]

The WL Toys V911 i've been learning on is super tough and really cheap on parts. I think its about 5 bucks for a 10 pack of blades from Hong Kong. Takes about 3 weeks to get but hey. Gotta do an order here shortly, finally broke my two spare blades. Even canopies are a couple bucks, etc.

Sumx54, what are your thoughts on the Blade 300X?

the 300x crashes well with minimal damage for being a bigger class heli. The only problem I have ever had with it was the main shaft came loose and shifted the rotor head up causing it to disengage the tail rotor belt and ending in a significant fast, high altitude crash. Basically started spinning mad circles into the ground. It turned out that it was just a cap screw that was loose. I should of went over the entire heli when it was new and made sure everything was tight and locktited. It comes set up from factory very well and minimal tuning is required to fly it out of the box. It comes with a very good receiver it's an AR7200BX (beast x) which can be used in any helicopter build out there. In the past I've bought just the BX for $250 without the helicopter. I'm in the middle of switching my bigger helicopters from flybar to flybarless wich requires the BX receiver. I thought I might as well buy the whole package and after I crash the **** out of it I'd just transfer the receiver over to another one of my Helis but I'm actually kind of fond of the 300X I just keep fixing it cause it's fun to fly. I'm no expert when it comes to flying. I have a hard time flying with an audience. I can fly it inverted and do loops with it is all and that's taking me a very long time to learn. If you get serious into this hobby just remember at first when your buds are over and you're smashing a few beers and the heli comes out.... Prepare for a bad wreck. Bwhahahahahaha.

 

[sumx54]

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[Braddock54]

the 300x crashes well with minimal damage for being a bigger class heli. The only problem I have ever had with it was the main shaft came loose and shifted the rotor head up causing it to disengage the tail rotor belt and ending in a significant fast, high altitude crash. Basically started spinning mad circles into the ground. It turned out that it was just a cap screw that was loose. I should of went over the entire heli when it was new and made sure everything was tight and locktited. It comes set up from factory very well and minimal tuning is required to fly it out of the box. It comes with a very good receiver it's an AR7200BX (beast x) which can be used in any helicopter build out there. In the past I've bought just the BX for $250 without the helicopter. I'm in the middle of switching my bigger helicopters from flybar to flybarless wich requires the BX receiver. I thought I might as well buy the whole package and after I crash the **** out of it I'd just transfer the receiver over to another one of my Helis but I'm actually kind of fond of the 300X I just keep fixing it cause it's fun to fly. I'm no expert when it comes to flying. I have a hard time flying with an audience. I can fly it inverted and do loops with it is all and that's taking me a very long time to learn. If you get serious into this hobby just remember at first when your buds are over and you're smashing a few beers and the heli comes out.... Prepare for a bad wreck. Bwhahahahahaha.

Hey thanks for the info man! That sucks about the wild crash, but good point about tightening everything up.

Mind you nothing ever turns out with an audience. Where do you order your parts from, online or at a hobby store. I'm pretty well limited to online here. My wife thinks I am turning into more of a nerd over the years, but my kids think its cool. Boys win.

Thanks for the insight on the 300X. I'm leaning on this one.

 

[sumx54]

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[Braddock54]

Hey Sumx, what would you go with- 130X, McPX BL or 300x? What would be the easiest to fly and most stable?

i may buy the 350 qx for Go Pro in future. Looks rad.

 

[sumx54]

Hey Sumx, what would you go with- 130X, McPX BL or 300x? What would be the easiest to fly and most stable?

i may buy the 350 qx for Go Pro in future. Looks rad.

300x. I find as a general rule that the bigger the bird, the more stable they are. On the flip side...the bigger they are the harder they fall.

 

[Braddock54]

300x. I find as a general rule that the bigger the bird, the more stable they are. On the flip side...the bigger they are the harder they fall.

Would it be hard to find parts for it; I see It's disc.

Or perhaps a 450 RTF, with a dx6i

http://www.horizonhobby.com/products/blade-450-3d-rtf-BLH1600

This is hard! Frig I dunno!

 

[sumx54]

Blade 300 X BNF (BLH4580) Manuals, Parts Explosions, Team Tips, Bulletins and other Support Information: Blade - #1 By Design

i don't see anywhere that is says its a discontinued model. Parts are very easy to get for any Blade heli. If I were you I would stay away from flybar units. All the cool kids are flying flybarless these days. Much easier to fly and cheaper to fix. Once you graduate from these RTF Helis you're going to be building them from kits, which don't always come with electronics. All the receiver parts that come with the RTF 300x are fully capable of bolting into any " put together" kit. Which will save you $$ down the road. JMO

 

[Wilk INStheWEST]

Hey Sumx, what would you go with- 130X, McPX BL or 300x? What would be the easiest to fly and most stable?

i may buy the 350 qx for Go Pro in future. Looks rad.

I have the MCPX, and it is not the most stable bird, well it's actually more like a bee. But if something goes wrong, you hit the throttle cut switch, and it just falls from the sky, bounces on the ground and good to go right away again. Bigger bird would have at least 100$ in damage doing that. Plus I can fly it inside. I haven't flown my 400 in almost 3 years, though I'm not nearly into the hobby the same as I used to be.

 

[AreWeThereYet]

I have the MCPX, and it is not the most stable bird, well it's actually more like a bee. But if something goes wrong, you hit the throttle cut switch, and it just falls from the sky, bounces on the ground and good to go right away again. Bigger bird would have at least 100$ in damage doing that. Plus I can fly it inside. I haven't flown my 400 in almost 3 years, though I'm not nearly into the hobby the same as I used to be.

This is a blatant lie,.. this does not work with inverted flying

It turns into a lego do-it yourself kit

 

[BeachSled]

This is a blatant lie,.. this does not work with inverted flying

It turns into a lego do-it yourself kit

LMFAO AreWeThereYet,

That is so true... it rarely needs new parts, you just need to pick them all up and put it back together.

I have found better skids (still on my first pair), AirTimeRcProducts. Watch his video.
Break THIS!!.MOV - YouTube

 

[Wilk INStheWEST]

This is a blatant lie,.. this does not work with inverted flying

It turns into a lego do-it yourself kit

Bahahaha. So true. I don't do much inverted flying inside. I value my TV too much.

Sent from a Galaxy S3 far far away.

 

[gates559]

Got the blade msr. What a great little heli to learn with. I have been flying it the house, crashing time and time again. Have not broke a thing. Bet I have crashed it 50 times.

 

[Korey]

Haha I have the mcpx from blade great heli suffered alot more then 50 crash but still holding together other then a couple broken tails I also have the blade 450 it doesnt hold up so well to crashes lol total Armageddon when it falls out of the air which happened abit as I thought it would be a good heli to learn on...mistake and it scared the crap outta me when I didnt know any better and tried to spool it up inside...things got jam haha learned real quick its an outside toy

Got the blade msr. What a great little heli to learn with. I have been flying it the house, crashing time and time again. Have not broke a thing. Bet I have crashed it 50 times.

 

[AreWeThereYet]

Still waiting for someone to get the Phoenix flight sim so we can crash it up, ****s a blast and you can fly pretty much anything released

 

[BeachSled]

I have Phoenix, but not sure how to use the multi player login deal.