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Old 06-01-2010, 01:06 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Gaiiden View Post
very cool. Have an indoor copter for kicks, but someday I will get around to getting an outdoor model. Been wanting to get into R/C planes & helis since I was like 12, but always have money goin elsewhere. Someday...
I was the same way. I started about a month ago. I just walked into the hobby store and bought the Blade MCX coaxial (dual front rotor and no tail rotor) micro-copter for my indoor practice.

Then after a couple weeks of that I moved up to the Blade SR outdoor single pitch rotor copter which has a tail rotor as well. The SR is heavy enough to be flown outside in winds under 5 mph.

There is actually an indoor single front rotor Blade SR that is just a little bigger than micro MCX that one can step up to before moving to the bigger Blade SR for the outdoors. But I decided to skip the intermediate purchase and put the money toward the purchase of the Phoenix R/C simulator software instead. I decided it was better to practice and crash on the computer rather than loosing the outdoor Blade SR to a hard crash into the ground. Also the Phoenix software will allow you to connect the Blade SR transmitter to the computer and fly the simulator chopper on your desktop.
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