you should check out youtube.com
They have a lot of reviews and open box showing a lot of this stuff.
At 02:34 PM 1/5/2012, you wrote:
Hey thanks for the tips Trouble, great to meet another blind guy
into this hobby you're the first I've come across in quite a
while. Yes I do try to take the heli off with the tail toward me
for a good point of reference but you of course sometimes get
rotation one way or the other which will throw you off. These
little helis that I have don't have individual trim controls they
just have a trim dial below the sticks. I assume if I get something
a bit more sophisticated like the Eflight ones I mention they will
have more trim controls.
Thanks again.
Tom
On Jan 3, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Trouble wrote:
> To help fix that drift. Get the helicopter to hover with tail to
you. Then if it drifts left, give rudder trim on radio a little
until it stops. With no wind conditions you should be able to get a
steady hover. If not know where the trims are on radio. They are
right next to the gimbals.
>
> At 02:31 PM 1/3/2012, you wrote:
>> Hey Charles and all.
>>
>> The helis designed for indoor flying are mostly pretty small. I
have a couple of them here that I've bought over the last few
years, my Bladerunner has a rotor diameter of about 11 inches if
memory serves and weighs in at about 55 grams would have to look at
the manual to get exact specs. Last year I picked up one of the
little Sima s107 microcopters they're basically a cheapy version of
the Eflight micros. These have a rotor diameter of about 7 inches
and they weigh in at about 35 grams or so so they are very very small.
>>
>> Yes you do need some space to fly these little things around, we
have too much crap in our house and besides flying things tend to
scare Xena our female green iguana so I tend to take my indoor
craft either down to our rec room or over to a friend's place who
has more room. The motors on these little things are easily
audible so it is pretty easy to use the same type of hand-ear
coordination that we develop in audio gaming to fly them, the
difference is you definitely need to have good spatial concepts and
be able to really understand what three dimensions means and be
able to think quickly that way. Basically the first thing I try to
work on if I haven't been flying for a while is to achieve a stable
hover, you want to get the heli off the ground a bit so that your
rotor wash does not cause too much turbulence and then try to hear
if it is drifting, they do drift very easily despite the fact that
most of them have an internal gyroscope and any air currents at all
will cause this, then you have to apply a very slight amount with
your directional stick to counter this movement. If you are a
total which I am this is going to be challenging because you will
not know which way to move your directional stick, e.g. you will
not know if your heli is drifting forward, backward, or
sideways. The best approach that I've found is to simply apply a
bit of direction and see where it goes and be ready to correct
quickly if you have guessed wrong.
>>
>> These little things are loads of fun if you have somewhere to
fly them, so far as I'm concerned it's like gaming but even better
in a way because you're actually controlling a real object instead
of a virtual one. I've had a fascination with RC stuff most of my
adult life but it's only since we are seeing the advent of digital
radio control and these reasonably affordable products that I've
been able to actually get into it. Having said that if you do
decide to give this a go, I would recommend that you pick up one of
the inexpensive ones to start with, something like the Sima helis
are ok, they only run around 30 bucks or so on Amazon last time I
checked. That way if you crack one up it isn't the end of the
world. You can get better micros from companies like Eflight for
instance, I am just about ready to upgrade to one of these, if you
want strictly indoor flying then I am considering something like
the MCX2. If you want something that you can fly outside too then
maybe the CX2 would be worth looking at. There are of course way
more expensive ones, you can spend hundreds and thousands of
dollars on this hobby but since I don't have that kind of money to
spend the ones I am talking about and the ones I buy are probably
considered the less expensive ones, the bigger one, the CX is
around 150 or so last time I checked. One nice thing about the
better ones from Eflight, while the cheapy ones I have are really
pretty much toys and if you break them that's it, the Eflight ones
are really closer to an true RC model and you can get pretty much
any spare parts you need if you do crash one.
>>
>> In short, RC stuff is loads of fun and there are definitely
things that we can do in that hobby without sight. Besides my two
helis I also have a bigger quadrocopter called an x-ufo and a
couple of 1/24 scale rc tanks. RC hovercraft are something I'm
really interested in but have not done much research on which ones
are good to get so would be glad for any info on that. If anyone
is interested in getting into this hobby I'd certainly be happy to
talk about it further but we probably oughta do it off list since
this isn't really gaming.
>>
>> Game on.
>>
>> Tom
>> On Dec 22, 2011, at 9:07 AM, Charles Rivard wrote:
>>
>> > Just curious: Indoor helicopters? I would think that any
flying craft needs a lot of space. How big are these helicopters?,
and how do you navigate without smacking it into walls or ceiling
without looking? It sounds like interesting fun!
>> >
>> > ---
>> > Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second.
>> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trouble" <troub...@columbus.rr.com>
>> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
>> > Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 10:47 AM
>> > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] a thought on the Shard Workshop project
>> >
>> >
>> >> You got some of the principles, but way off on others.
>> >> The ailerons on the ends of the wings are what lets the plane
turn left or right. You get this motion by moving the yoke left or
right. By pushing forward or pulling back on the yoke causes the
Elevators on the tail wings to raise or lower the planes level of
flight. By giving the plane more or less power. Gives more or less
wind on the wings surface to assist in these movements. Speed only
makes you go faster or slower. Depending on wait of plane
determines how much speed it takes to keep it in the air. Not all
planes have rudders, and those that do move along with the ailerons.
>> >> Anyone that has flown and had time at the stick would of ben
told this info after all its basic flying. You want hard flying try
a helicopter.
>> >> i have flown just about all types of RC models from airplanes
to hover craft. Now working on helicopters indoor type and out. Ben
playing with these big boy toys for past 30 years and most of it being blind.
>> >
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