Comments | clayfoot: Fly straight! No, I said straight!

clayfoot

Fly straight! No, I said straight!

Sep 13, 2007 13:22

I got one of those little R/C helicopters from woot.com.

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urthstripe321 September 13 2007, 17:29:01 UTC

Stop stinking at flying little R/C helicopters.

clayfoot September 13 2007, 17:53:30 UTC

Thank you. Your kind words are a comfort to me in my time of need.

urthstripe321 September 13 2007, 19:25:29 UTC

I should start charging for my services.

atothek September 13 2007, 17:52:20 UTC

The pilot is Sen. Larry Craig?

*buh DUM dum*

clayfoot September 13 2007, 17:54:10 UTC

'cause it won't go straight reliably...?

willowrrain September 13 2007, 18:38:18 UTC

Okay, that made me laugh out loud.

mrs_waters September 14 2007, 12:32:06 UTC

Those are really hard to control. Waters has one - which his friend broke and it's been broken since last year.
Maybe your helicopter has a problem. You could maybe exchange for a new one and see if it does the same thing.

clayfoot September 14 2007, 12:43:47 UTC

They sure are. I got it from woot.com, so there's nowhere to exchange it, per se. It wasn't expensive, so when it finally breaks, I'll replace it with one that has automatic stability control. Something like this one, perhaps.

mrs_waters September 15 2007, 14:10:36 UTC

This is actually Waters! How's it going??

I don't have one exactly like that. Mine is this one, which is a more expensive, more hobby like one.

This one is actually a clone of the one you linked. This first micro helicopter with this design was the picooz, that was available on radio shack. Yours is a clone, just like the one you linked.

It's actually a very good helicopter! You just have to be lucky to get one of the good ones. If you can trim, that's a good start. If you want more forward movement, try adding a small weight to the nose. That should help keep the nose down and moving a bit faster. There are TON of info about these on this forum.

And if ever want to graduate and go to a more serious 4-channel (can do "strafing") micro helicopter, you can try this one. Yeah, I know ... I'm a geek ... I already went from helicopter to planes ...