Emaxx 3905 budget setups?

Joe reading about your early hover attemps reminded me of my first flight with an LMH 100+. Finally got in the air and it starts flying towards my father in law, good thing thos LMH's were tough, I chopped the throttle and let it ball up by a tree. 24 flight hours on the CSM v10 sim had me flying like a pro.

I'm still very hessitant to get real crazy but I can piro to the left through a whole pack and put the heli pretty much where I want it. For some reason I have more trouble piroing to the right?? I can do it but I have to slow down or stop to regain control from time to time. I figure the flips and stuff will be easy the hard part is learning to stay in control at all orientations. I do, acasionaly do a flip or loop but for the most part I work on getting good fluid control through the piros yet.

I can certainly understand going with the MMM over the MM for future performance upgrades, I just figured my setup is pretty darn good and not that expensive. To be honest the more I think about it I wouldn't try the 36-50-2200 I just dont think the short can motor will have the torque to pull the gears.. My setup works because its geared pretty low and lets the motor make power through rpm rather than brute force.

Finally finshed all my yard work for the day, been at it since before noon today. Time to drive my trucks!!

I have three or four MS composit Hornets ranging from an original CP to the lastest X3D, Including one that is part Hornet part MaxiR, supper nice all alloy and CF. The guys with HB's and Blade CPs get a huge kick out of it because it looks no more threatening till I spool it up;)

Next is a Dragonus II Pro (Trex 450 size) again all alloy and CF this one just came out of the box that way, Sweet heli but its easier to find parts for a Trex.

Then I have a Robbe Eolo Pro upgraded to near SE specs, serious money pit but it flies so nice!! It's a bit smaller then the Trex 500, swings 385mm blades.

Next up is the SJM 500 V1. worthless piece of poo I just got it last sep-oct and its two generations old already, when V2 came out it had most of the upgrades I reccomended rolleyes: The newest V3 has all the stuff I commented on and a few extras. Mine came with 380mm blades they now come with 430mm IIRC.

Then I have a Century Hawk III and a Falcon SE semi retired along with the LMH.

I couldn't even begin to count all the planes I have right now and I have been flying planes for 25 years, many have come and gone in that time!

You got quite a little airfield going on there! In your experience, are the larger helis easier to fly vs. the smaller stuff? I figure I still have a few more weeks of tail in flying before I can move on to nose in stuff (got a great tip from a guy on another fourm though for nose in flying; move the controls in the way of danger, so if the heli is drifting right while facing you, then move the right stick to the horizontal right and it should get straight again). With the collective pitch stuff, do you find that it's more stable due to the constant rotor head speed? I'm wondering if I should have started on a larger CP bird... (crashes would be far more expensive though I think...)

Anyways, my first hover attempts have been interesting. I'm learning that small corrections are absolutely key to flying a heli stably. And also, the heli flies "behind your hand", so I have to account for any delay the heli will experience from wind and weight distribution and stuff.

After nose in flying, I think I may be able to try manuvering in figure 8's. After I get all of that stuff down, some free flight screwin' around until I get it down perfect!

[highflier]

If your on a budget I would suggest these ideas
1) Get the MMM (does not do you any good to save it today and spend more later)
2) Get either the wanderer 9XL or a Medusa 36/60/2000 V2
3) Use a 6s 1p A123 pack and zip charge the sucker (Ebay a dewalt pack and search for 2 extra cells.)

You'll save alot of Money on the battery/charger setup. $130 for batteries and charger is $10.00 so that total setup is 140 compared to 200+ for lipo and charger. Keep in mind with the a123 you'll have 2 packs and can charge as fast as you run em down.

Misc comments
I use the A123 packs in Combat wings, E-gliders, and am considering trying it in my Trex 450 V2.
I also use them in a brushless 1/10 stadium truck. I use the same packs or combination of the packs for all of the above listed RC uses. Very very versitile.

Highflier

Hmmm...good points highflier. Thank you. I just purchased a charger that is A123 capable, so that is now an option.

[TexasSP]

Five-oh, if you haven't already, check out the forums at www.helifreak.com

There is a lot of great knowledge on there and a guy that does setup videos on most of the popular heli's.

Just checked it out. Exactly what I need, a heli forum! Thanks Tex. I'll browse around and see if I can find a setup video for my Honey Bee.

Lots of good info on that site for my heli. When I get my parts in, I'll have to try some of the tips I found on there. Thanks again Tex.

[TexasSP]

No problem, when I first got on the site, I was all hot to buy a trex 600. However, after spending some time and learning more, I have decided to wait a little bit. That forum is kind of like the RCM for heli's. There are some really nice, knowledgeable, and helpful folks on there. If Finless Bob hasn't done a setup vid for your honey bee, I know there are a lot of guys on there that run them and give you some great advice. By the way, Finless Bob (goes by finless) is kind of like lincpimp, lutach, patrick, briang, and a bunch of others mixed into one when it comes to heli's.

I checked out the Esky forum, and there's ton's of Honey Bee threads. Picked up some interesting flight suggestions for easier manuverability and better response. Can't wait to get my spare parts in; hopefully they come today or tomorrow. I'm itchin' to get in the sky.

Until then, my Rustler is asking to be run with its new gearing setup (27/87 on 2s lipo and the 4800 kv medusa)...

Good luck with the heli Joe, you are so right about how rewarding it is to finally tame one.

What tires you running on your Rustler?

Thanks, I'll need it!

As for the Rustler, some Proline Road Rage IIs. The fronts (which used to be the rears) are BALD, so it's difficult to steer this thing. I also have front rims on the rear (so front rims all around really) to widen it up a bit out back. It makes it SUPER stable.