How to get your RC Helicopter Ready?
Posted on | Monday, May 23, 2011 | 4 Comments
Flying Helicopters is a mind gripping hobby. Those who are into flying helicopters, they must be knowing what is meant by this. Helicopter flying is not a complicated hobby, nor do you need to go to any training school to learn flying. You need not worry whether you have a license or not. Even a small child of five can easily become a good pilot.
How to get your RC Helicopter Ready? You got it correct; we are talking about lovely little RC electronic helicopters. It is fun to fly these little things; you are just another one of all those children who are out on the lawn trying to grapple with the RC control boxes. Don’t think that you are just going to pick up a remote control and fly the toy up above the bushes and plants, around your lawn.
These RC Helicopters are by no means an inexpensive hobby. So buying and crashing it against a tree trunk or a wall will simply not do. How to get your RC Helicopter Ready? First and foremost thing is to get some information about the different types of helicopters that are available in the online stores. Read everything about these helicopters, the more you read, better your understanding about the whole flying business will be. Select a heli that is reasonably priced to suit your needs.
When you have decided upon the type of machine you want to fly, don’t buy it straight away. Fly simulators instead, you will not lose any money by doing this. Learn to handle the helicopter controls. Once your hand is steady at the controls, now it is time to go for the real thing.
How to get your RC Helicopter Ready? All the above steps are just making an RC Helicopter ready to be flown by you. It is always better to purchase an electric helicopter in the beginning. They come with charged batteries and are ready to be flown as soon as they reach your hand.
Coaxials are the best choice for beginners. A single blade helicopter might not prove to be too steady in your first flight. Before flying make sure that all the nuts and bolts of your heli are in position. If you feel vibrations in the helicopter on putting it on for testing purpose, then be warned that something is loose somewhere. Hobbyists who have gone for helicopters which are using fuel, they should check out their helicopter for any kind of sputtering noise. If fuel is below normal, then it is best to avoid later trouble by replenishing it. All the blades should be in proper balancing order for the chopper to fly well. Make yourself safe from undue expenditure due to loose wiring in the helicopter.
How do RC Helicopters Work?
Posted on | Friday, May 20, 2011 | 4 Comments
Helicopters are versatile in nature. They can be flown upwards, downwards, forwards, backwards, left and right. Your RC Helicopter can perform acrobatics for you, you can fly it upside down, you can make it touch the ground grass in one second, and in the very next second have it flying close to the tree tops.
How do RC Helicopters Work? Their workings are complicated. The smaller the craft, more complicated are its accessories. To fly your RC well you have to face the helicopter and move along with its movements. Orientation plays a great role in smooth flying. Helicopters like the RC models have a main rotor, collective control, cyclic control, a tail rotor and a swash plate assembly to beat the air and make way for its flight.
The main rotor consists of two or more blades; these are extensions to the main rotor. You can make your helicopter lift up in the air with the help of main rotor. Force required for flying comes from this source.
How do RC Helicopters Work? When the helicopter moves upwards with its rotating blades, a lift comes into being, the generated lift depends upon the angle and speed at which the blades are moving. To increase the speed of your helicopter, you simply double the pitch of the main central rotor. The pitch in turn is controlled by collective control and the cyclic control, the force is transferred through swash plate to the main central rotors.
How do RC Helicopters Work with tail rotor? Along with main rotors in a RC Helicopter, we also have small rotors. These rotors are attached to the tail rotor. These rotors prevent the spinning of the helicopter during its flight by thwarting the intentions of the central rotor system.
The Swash Plate translates commands given out by the pilot; it changes these commands into movement of the main system of rotor blades. Collective control sees to the lifting up of whole swash plate unit. Collective control maintains balance of power in the workings of various components of the RC Helicopter. Cyclic control on the other hand helps in tilting of the swash plate in different directions and at different angles.
RC Helicopter Pre Flight Checklist
Posted on | Monday, May 9, 2011 | 1 Comment
Just like any other normal pre flight checklist, essential points are also there for a RC Helicopter Pre Flight Checklist. Checklist for every model is almost the same; a slight difference here and there can be present however. It is important to make sure that nothing would mar your enjoyable flying session.
As many RC Helicopter Kits are available without pre-assembled product, you have to build your own RC Electronic Helicopter, Gas RC Helicopter or helicopters like RTF RC Helicopters. Before the helicopter leaves ground for the first time, make sure that all the nuts and bolts are in their proper place, see that none is missing; they should be tight and well inserted. Sometimes if in a hurry, the aspiring builder might forget to fix a nut and bolt properly, in its loosened condition the whole thing might come apart in the middle of a flight. A moving object is likely to cause more injury to the person it hits. On crashing the RC Helicopter might give up its Ghost, meaning it might stop functioning due to broken wings etc. To protect yourself from injury and paying undue expenses, you should see that you have a secure Helicopter with you.
In RC Helicopter Pre Flight Checklist you are advised to see that all wires are properly connected and are without any breakages. Connections to the servo should be given a thorough look.
The radio control for your RC should be checked out.Those choppers which constitute of a tail should be checked for proper tightening of the belt. The belt should neither be too loose or too tight.
The swashplate should be in a working order.
The gyros, batteries, BEC, ESC, and governor should be mounted up with pads. Some helicopter parts like the gyro, wear out much faster, and need to be replaced more often. You should make sure that it is done so to prevent falling off the parts during a competitive flight.
Blades of the helicopter should be in proper alignment to each other.
Nitro and RC Gas Helicopters should be checked for fuel leakages or cracks in the hoses etc.
Building Scale Model RC Helicopters
Posted on | Sunday, May 8, 2011 | No Comments
Scale model helicopters are designed after real life helicopters. Building Scale Model RC Helicopters is nothing like building mini helicopters or ordinary electric micro RC Helicopters; it takes time and patience to build these realistic toy models.
Flying RC Helicopters is fun. Many of these helicopters require proper hands to control them, but some simple helicopters are also available for beginners. We can use our old Helicopters to build a new one out of them. Basic things that make the helicopter work just need a change of body, and the new scale model RC helicopter is ready to be flown.
Choose the size of the helicopter that you wish to make. Select the engine for the helicopter. Look into the advantages that your choice is going to get you. Electric, Nitro or 2-stroke engines are an ideal choice for Building Scale Model RC Helicopters with. Select number of blades that you want your helicopter to have. Choose from among NiCad, Lithium polymer or other good offers of batteries available online. Decide upon the servos, controller and channels beforehand. When all the accessories are at hand, you can build your helicopter within matter of time.
Previously one had to buy RC Scale Model Helicopter accessories from different places, but now everything can be bought together with the added benefit of a pre-painted helicopter model. Building Scale Model RC Helicopters kit brings you semi prepared build up helicopters, there are drill holes already present and you just have to insert whatever is required of you from the given directions in the manual. For those of you who do not want to go for customized models, you can select kits which can help you in getting your own customized Scale Model RC Helicopters.
Hirobo RC Scale Helicopters give you around fifty models to choose from. Choose from among CH-46 Vertol US Marine S Iwakuni, Dauphin 2, Iroquois Bell UH-1b.30 or Schweizer 300 W/MRB 111. All models are fun to make and fly.
At Heli store all models under all budgets are available. A Scale Model Helicopter gives you an experience of flying a real helicopter. After you fly one, you will never like to go back to even 3D RC Helicopters.